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COLOR 



lUniteo States E3 Germany E29 Italy 

 iGreat Britain S3 France E3 Spam 



Portugal 

 E3 Denmark 



EB Netherlands 



HOW THE WORLD IS APPORTIONED 



Germany lost Its colonies in the War of the Nations, and they are to be governed by the former 

 allied countries, at least for a period of years. 



Anglo-Saxon element. The lands of the world 

 are now so much divided among nations that 

 there is comparatively little room for coloniza- 

 tion. There are no more virgin countries to be 

 appropriated, although there are vast spaces 

 under existing governments for new settlers. 



Colonies of the World. The articles on the 

 great countries contain lists of their colonies, 

 with areas and population. In addition, supple- 

 mentary lists, divided according to continents, 

 will be found with the political maps of the 

 various grand divisions. F.ST.A. 



COLOR, kul'cr, cannot be studied or under- 

 stood apart from light, for color is a property 

 of light, just as pitch is a property of sound. 

 Many years ago people believed that of all the 

 known colors white light was the simplest and 

 purest, but the great scientist, Sir Isaac New- 

 ton, disproved this by an interesting experi- 

 ment. He admitted a beam of sunlight through 

 a small aperture in the shutter of a darkened 

 room, and let the beam pass through a glass 

 prism to a white screen. On the screen there 

 appeared not the colorless image of the sun, 

 but a band of many colors, arranged in the 

 following order violet, indigo, blue, green, 

 yellow, orange, red. Such a band of colors is 

 called a spectrum. Newton proved by his 

 experiment that white light is a mixture of all 

 the colors of* the spectrum ; these same colors 

 appear in beautiful form in the rainbow, which 



is produced when the sun shines on raindrops. 

 The drops act like tiny prisms, and separate 

 the rays into the seven colors by refraction. 



Scientists have learned many other interest- 

 ing facts about color. Light waves, they tell 

 us, have different lengths, and each color cor- 

 responds to a certain wave-length. The waves 

 that produce the sensation of red light are 

 about twice as long as those that produce vio- 

 let, which is the first color in the spectrum. A 

 piece of white paper has no color because it 

 reflects all wave-lengths equally, but a piece 

 of red cloth looks red because it reflects only 

 those waves that produce red light, and it 

 absorbs the others. A black object, on the 

 other hand, absorbs nearly all colors. Now 

 we may see why the sky looks blue in the day- 

 time. In the atmosphere are many tiny parti- 

 cles of dust, which reflect the blue waves and 

 permit the others to pass. Were the air en- 

 tirely free from dust specks it would look dark. 



Color Everywhere. A world without color! 

 Who can imagine it? We could as easily pic- 

 ture a world without light as a world without 

 color. In our homes we are surrounded by color. 

 In the street we see color in every object. In 

 our hours of work and play, in the town, in 

 the country, in shops and factories, in churches, 

 schools and playgrounds, in the parks and 

 on the river, on the sea and in it, in the clouds 

 and stars, and even in the air we are ever 



