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Show Odds and Ends. Women who declare that they "can't wear" certain colors now have the support of a famous French physician, physi-cian, who assures the world that perfumes, per-fumes, colors and sounds affect us differently, dif-ferently, according to the state of our health. A whole system of therapeutics has been founded on the fact. Since the days of Pere Hue the Chinese have enveloped smallpox patients in clothing cloth-ing of a carmine color. In Tonquin and Australia bandages of the same color are used on children suffering from measles, while Spanish parent; not only put their little patients in wrapping of this brilliant hue but make them drink syrup of pomegranates pomegran-ates because of its color. Red light has a good effect on several sev-eral skin diseases; blue and violet spell death to bacteria; yellow protects pro-tects the eye against the injurious elements of the spectrium, while green calms the nerves and encourages encour-ages sleep. Put a spidei and a wasp under a colorless bell glass and they will live in peace; give the glass a tinge of scarlet and the two insects will rush at 'each other and engage in mortal j combat. So perhaps the woman who I "feels disagreeable in red" has j science on her side and is not merely I suffering from affection. |