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Show SEE ONLY RED AND YELLOW. These the Dream Colors, According to Dr. Havelock Ellis. Ited and jellow nre tho dream col- ors If Dr. Ilnvolock Ellis la right. No other huea como to tho dreamer of dreams, Slmroth has declared that red is tho most primitive of colors, and long ago protoplasm from which litimnn beings derived their origin on tho new earth probabl) responded to or was nffected by red color waves. In tho depth of tho sea the algae tr sea weed nro red. With the savage Ted Is the faorlto color, and for a mjL krlght pleco of red calico African sav-M sav-M Kges gladly would give valuable do- fhant tuaks. Hed strikes tho note of intense emotions. emo-tions. It Is tho color of Joy, exultation, exulta-tion, Jubilation. Savages paint them-belves them-belves red. and rejoice at seeing each other In burning hues. Oerman women wom-en of tho early ages daubed their bodies bod-ies with brilliant led and ellow, and considered themselves must beaute-ously beaute-ously adorned. On sacied festivals in Homo and Greece Pliny lecords red wn3 smeared over tho statuos of Jupiter, and was tho color of religious rejoicing. The human eyes, it Is said, can distinguish 100,000 different hues or colors, and can appieclatu and differentiate 20 shades of each hue. In other words, the co Is capable of 2,000,000 color impressions. |