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yellow mixed with a little violet will produce a 

 grayed yellow; red mixed with a little green 

 will produce a grayed green; and blue mixed 

 with a little orange will produce a grayed blue. 



It is this mixture of complementary colors 

 which has produced the second circle of colors 

 in the chart, marked gray-yellow, gray-orange, 

 gray-red, gray-violet, gray-blue and gray-green. 

 When equal quantities of these complementary 

 colors are mixed, the pure, or neutral, gray 

 found in the center circle is produced. 



How to Use Color Knowledge. Now that we 

 know what is meant by primary and binary col- 

 ors, by hues and by the tints and shades of all 

 colors, by complementary colors, and how they 

 affect each other when mixed, how can we use 

 our color knowledge? We must learn what 

 colors can be depended upon to look well, when 

 used in house decoration, in dress design, or 

 in any other practical way. 



If we wish to use any one color in full in- 

 tensity, as a green feather on a hat, we should 

 be sure to use it with black, white or gray. 

 If we wish to paint the shutters on a house 

 bright green, we should paint the house light 

 gray or white. If we wish to use blue and 

 orange in a costume, we must use a small 

 quantity of the intense color, as a bright orange 

 tie, buckle, flower or bit of trimming, with a 

 large mass of grayed blue for the main part 

 of the costume. 



While complementary colors can be depended 

 upon to produce harmony, they should seldom 

 be employed in full intensity, except where bril- 

 liant or startling effects are desired, and even 

 then they should be combined with black, white 

 or gray. 



Tints and shades of any one color are sure to 

 be harmonious when used in a costume or in 

 house decoration. Here, again, touches of 



black or white, or both, will add much to the 

 interest. For example, a costume in tones of 

 blue will be improved by some addition of 

 white; a room in tones of buff could carry a 

 trim of white paint; a dark blue suit of clothes 

 looks well when worn with a white shirt, a 

 white or straw hat, and a black tie. 



Other groups of colors that can be depended 

 upon to produce harmony are the neighboring, 

 or analogous, colors. For example, yellow, 

 yellow-green and green in their tints and shades 

 might be employed in the color schemes of 

 fabrics, for curtains, pillow covers, carpets and 

 hangings. Yellow, yellow-orange and orange 

 are brilliant and showy and could be used in 

 window dressing, in flower arrangements and 

 in millinery. Red-violet, violet and blue-violet 

 could be applied in the designing of silks and 

 velvets. Additions of black and white to all 

 color combinations are generally desirable; 

 light tints call for a touch of black. 



You will see how practical and valuable a 

 knowledge of color combinations may prove to 

 those who desire to study color. The color 

 chart is a sort of compass, to be used in sailing 

 through the sea of color by which we are sur- 

 rounded. B.8. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes contain much information which 

 will be found interesting and helpful in a study 

 of the topic of color : 

 Aniline Light 



Black Ochre 



Blue . Orange 



Brown Purple 



Carmine Rainbow 



Chrome Red 



Coal Tar Sepia 



Costume Spectrum Analysis 



Green Ultramarine 



Indigo .Umber 



Interior Decoration White 

 Lake Yellow 



THE STORY OF COLORADO a 



'OLORADO, one of the Western states 

 of the American Union, called The Centennial 

 State because it was admitted in 1876, the hun- 

 dredth anniversary of American independence. 

 It forms a great quadrilateral, and save for 

 Wyoming is the only state that is bounded by 

 four straight lines. With an east and west 



length of 375 miles, a north and south breadth 

 of 276, and an area of 103,948 square miles, 

 it is the seventh state in size, but its population 

 of 975,190 in 1917 makes it but thirty-second 

 in number of inhabitants. Its state flower is 

 the columbine, often wrongly called wild 

 honeysuckle. 



