KERAMIC STUDIO 
131 
MRS. HENRIETTA BARCLAY PAIST - Page Editor 
2298 Commonwealth Ave., St. Paul, Minn. 
HINTS ABOUT COLOR 
T AST month I started out to talk about color but digressed 
-*— ' long enough to unburden my mind of some of the 
thoughts which had been pressing for a long time, and which 
burst forth at the first opportunity to speak to my co-workers 
collectively. I hope you all read and inwardly digested the 
truths I tried to drive home, and that one of your New Year 
resolutions is to give your moral and financial support to the 
magazine which makes possible a keramic cult in this country 
To return to the subject of color, over which the art world 
seems to have almost lost its head. The pendulum swings and 
carries us with it, and we forget the clock of which the pendu- 
lum is only a part, and the two hands which move steadily on 
a pivot, pointing to the tendencies of the hour, but always com- 
ing together at the hour of twelve. 
Not so many years ago we were using color thoughtlessly, 
ignorantly, but joyfully. The results were what might be ex- 
BONBONNIERE IN ENAMELS— HENRIETTA BARCLAY PAIST 
