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looked through the door. “I am not 
going to move till this is settled.” “It is 
settled,” they answered, sullenly. I real¬ 
ized by their looks that I was a very un¬ 
popular woman. “I have it,” I cried; 
‘‘You pay the boxing, carting and ex¬ 
press charges, and that will square it.” 
“Agreed,” came the chorus. David wrote 
the check, and we left in gay spirits. 
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could in the brief time, and this list 
further elaborated by adding more than 
just the one kind of flower, we are going 
to work by this summer, and test his 
theories. For, of course, we all made 
a note of his combinations and his gen¬ 
eralities about color, even though we dis¬ 
agreed with him in spots. 
I was interested to see that he ad¬ 
hered to the old theories about the effect 
of colors on people, and that he be¬ 
lieved these effects “took” out of doors, 
as well as within the confines of a room. 
Right here he had a little to say about 
the artist’s greater susceptibility and gen¬ 
eral high-stringiness making him a 
readier victim of such influences — pos¬ 
sibly ; but, barring this one lapse, he ac¬ 
quitted himself without undue reference 
to temperament as it is worn by the 
great — or the near-great. 
Red and yellow—in the clear tones — 
are the near-to-us colors, red being more 
especially physical, yellow mental. Blue 
is the far-from-us color, corresponding 
to the spiritual; and on this basis he 
worked out his red-purple combination, 
making the esthetic claim for it that it 
was the truest expression of our hu¬ 
manity-physical (red) with an admix¬ 
ture of spiritual (blue), producing pur¬ 
ple in different degree according as the 
spiritual had overcome the physical. He 
made no allowance anywhere seemingly 
for the mental-yellow; but, as Helen 
Brinkerly pointed out, we should not 
judge him harshly for this, for possibly 
his opportunities have been limited. “He 
seems to be a protege of the Salton-Ap- 
pleby's, you see,” said she, sweetly and 
innocently. Whereupon, Polly retorted 
not inappropriately, I think : “Meouw !” 
The philosophical side of his theory 
of using colors hardly seemed so im¬ 
portant to some of us as it did to others 
— or to him, I fear; but the calculated 
use of them to produce effects of dis¬ 
tance or of “near-byness,” of fairylike 
delicacy or of sumptuous richness, I have 
always felt had possibilities that none 
takes full advantage of; and I do not 
believe that many people realize that 
there are such possibilities at all waiting 
to be developed by thought and consid¬ 
eration and calculation — and illumination 
in the inner mind. 
Purple, for instance, is the color of 
shadows and distance (this is part of 
what he said) ; and this recedes into blue, 
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