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Show SEE ONLY RED AND YELLOW. These the Dream Colors, According to Dr. Havelock Ellis. Red and yellow are the dream col- ors if Dr. Havelock Ellis is right. No other hues come to the dreamer of dreams. Slmroth has declared that red is the most primitive of colors, and long ago protoplasm from which human beings derived their origin on tho new earth probably responded to or was affected by red color waves. In the depth of the sea the algae or sea weed are red. With the savage red is the favorite color, aud for a bright piece of red calico African savages sav-ages gladly would give valuable elephant ele-phant tusks. Red strikes the note of intense emotions. emo-tions. It is tho color of joy, exultation, exulta-tion, Jubilation. Savages paint themselves them-selves red, and rejoice at seeing each other in burning hues. German women wom-en of the early ages daubed their bodies bod-ies with brilliant red and yellow, and considered themselves must beaute-ously beaute-ously adorned. On sacred festivals in Rome and Greece Pliny records red was smeared over the statues of Jupiter, and was the color of religious rejoicing. The human eyes, it la said, can distinguish 100,000 different hues or colors, and can appreciate and differentiate 20 shades of each hue. In other words, the eye Is capable of 2,000,00') color inipitbsioua. |