The Divorce Courts are very busy. and we now know why. Sir Charles Allom, the designer of i terior decorations, speaking of his statement that many divorce eases were caused by wrong colour schemes, remarks.
am absolutely certain that the human being is immensely influence ed by colour. Both his happiness and his melancholy may be entirely due to his environment. There con "be no doubt that various people are influenced differently by certain colours. Following the War the most extraordinary change of taste the public was apparent. They became partial to inharmonious colours and syncopated music. In a well-designed and composed work of art the eye travels through the whole just as quickly as an electric current travels through wire."
"There have been terrible tend-endes of Into to use yellows. and orange, the ghastly mauves and purples which people of third-rate taste use in rooms in which they live, colours which should only be used in small patches, are simply destroying refinement of colour sense in the majority of people and happiness in many cases. I consider it the duty of every person to accustom his children to refined served and music is discoursed, and forms and refined designs. no more pleasant way of spending the warm summer evening could be devised. My German friend's criticism of our shortcomings relates to the drama, "Scotland Go Bragh"
A turning point in the affairs of Scotland would seem to be indicated by the deputy n you tell me where T see Shakespearean play Church of Scotland Free Church pf Scotland, to Alas, L had to confess that I could direct him to many musi pieces, our National playwri Home Sceretitty and Sir John Gilmour, the Secretary for Scotland, to. day, which protested that the influx
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.