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28 WILMETTE LIFE January 21, 1927 II · News o¥ the North Shore Clubs .Colors in Nature Are Oscillating Their Vibration and Complements Illustrated in Second Lecture on Color Usage "In nature some flmycr:- ~e<.·Jll more aristocratic than others." ).[iss Helen Parker, in the second of her talks on M oncolor at the \Voman 's club, said : day afte.rnooi1. The orchid seems more aristocratic than · the sunflower because there is in it more Yibration be tween adjacent hu es-that i ...:_there :s not the flat color as in the sunflower. Flat color is unintere sting, and Miss Parker pointed out as in her fir st talk that there is little flat color in nature. "\Vat c h for subtlety in the lake. There is oscillation of color. It is constantlv vibrating," : Mi ss Parker continued her point. ~'fonct realized thi:; quality of water in his " \ "cnice," which hangs in the Art institute. In respect to usc of color, there arc three big developments in the history of painting. The Egyptiaus drew outlines on their walls and filled them in with flat, unbroken color. The old masters used colors "carried into gloom," the same hues in lo\\'er value . . They flooded their picture with the mystery of darkness. The moderns, .representing the t h i r d de\'clopment, flood their pictures \Yith mystery too, but it is the mystery of light. They have developed the usc of juxtaposition of color to get vibrations of light. Man mimicked nature \Yith · camouflage in the late war. Nature is filled with examples of protectiYe coloration. The peacock with his feathers spread open blends into the background. A blue butterfly, safe as it flies against the sky, is a neut.ral color as it folds its wings to rest on the ground. Gerald Thavcr, son of the artist. A.bbott Thayer, ·developed for the go\'ernment a the or v of camouflage in vvhich patches of bright colors instead of neutrals were used to hide ships and the like. There is also a beautiful usc of complementary color in nature, Miss Parker demonstrated with butterflies and bir~ feathers, in introducing her ~1ew top1c for the afternoon. She cxplamecl complementary color as the physicist a£hieves it with light rays, and as the painter works with it in pigment. The principle of neutralizing complementary colors has tremendous possibilities. Miss Parker told many interesting things about complementary colors. The greys derived from complementa.ry colors are much more beautiful and satisfying than those from black and white. Two notes of intense color may be used if they fade off into a field of grey. Red and green are the most exciting pair, and are the hardest to use well. Blue and orange are very satisfying. In ten s e notes of color should be used sparcely. Miss Parker quoted Henry Turne.r Bailey as calling attention to the fact that elephants arc grey and ladybugs red, not the reverse. Complementary colors are made up of one warm color, one cold; one advancing, one retreating. \ They intensify each other, because the eye, staring at green, for example. becomes blind to green, and sees red, which intensifies the red already before the eye. Like a conjurer with a bag of tricks, Miss Parker brought out of the case behind her desk piece after piece of Club Planning Birthday Party for War Veterans Disabled Yete.rans at Great Lakes hospital whose birthdays occur this month " ·ill be guests o.f the Neighbors, the Kenilworth woman\ club , on Tue sd ~Ly, January 25, at 1 o'clock, at tJ!e hospital. Those boys who arc able, \nil come to the party and rcire shments and cigarcts will be taken to the bed ridden patient:-~. A present will he given to each of the hirthda,· ho,·:; . The conunittcc in charge also. is a·rranging a n entertain ment for their pleasure . \\'nn1cn in tht north short: tO\YllS, cspcciall_ ,. in Kenilworth, arc urged to participate in the litpe jo urney to the hospital, to hclp with the party, and to see the work being .done there . 'I'hosc who hayc the party in chargl' state that they '"ill greatly appreciate anY don at ion s of money or cakes. Tl;eY hope to be able to rai se $50, the uno.unt considered necessary to make < the party a succe ss. Further infor m;J,tion ma,· h(' obtained from Mrs. U . I f. Dcme1~ t, Ken il\\'orth 16-n: Mrs . John Hicks, Kenil\\'orth 1401 : ~~ rs. JoS<.'ph J oycc. Kcnihvorth 213-l: '\f rs . J. K. Farley, Kenilworth 1.'392. Plays at Neighbors Citizenship School Offers Day Session Why Vote? and Measures of Hour to Be Discussed for Women of North Shore As citi zt.'lb. women a.re divid ed into t \\'0 c la s~cs, those wlln YOte, and th?s.c \\'ho don't. For the se an all-day Citizens hip schoo l \Yill be held in Wilm.ctte \V c cln e~ da\· , January 26, at the Pre shvterian ~ h u r c h, opening at 10 :00 n;clock and continuin g until 3:30 111 the afternoon " ·ith a lun che on sen·ed at noon for those attendil1g. Th?se \\'ho do not yotc will glean informat1 011 that \\·ill make them consider their voting pri\'ilegc in a differe nt light, ~nd tho:'ic who avail themselves of votmg will rccei\'<.' pertinent informati on on politics and pr ese nt measures of inlportancc. 'L'hr school, op~ n to \\'On h.· n citizen s al ong · the shore, IS under tile auspices of the \\.ilmctt c League 11i \\' omen \ ' oters. The progra.tn oi the day \\'ill he prl' sc nt ed by t\\'O \romcn of wide exper ience note d for thc·ir intere sting, st illl ulatil~g- ancl charming per sonalities. ~fr . E. H. Lunde and Mrs K. F. Ri ch. The former, who will act as in st ru ctor. rcccnth· led the Evanston citizenship group, · and ha s been active head of ;nanv committees. Mrs. Rich is one of ti1e vice president:; of th e Ttlinoi ~ League ,,j \\'omen Voter s. The schcclttle for the day will be as Woman's Club Reports Its Work With Ex-Service Men The regular monthly meeting of the committee of co-operation with ex:-.ervice men of the \\' oman 's club of \Vilmcttc \vas held Monday, ] anuary '>, with ' :Mrs. \Villiam A. Richardson, 1233 Lake avenue. Plans for the birthday party to be gi\·en in March by the club were discussed. Report s of the month's work showed ho"· varied arL' the calls upon the committee, whose chairman states: "\V c thank the iricnds for the clothing given for the men in our unit 31 \Ves t. Overcoats, underwear and suits have been supplied to men who had none. Also we ~ivc our thanks to those friends who have given clothing for the family of one of our men whose wife and children are living on charity. \iVann undenvcar, hose, etc., have been sent, ;),~ well as food. "A request from our blind man for a Braille primer has been supplied. 1[e_ aring of our plans to try and secure a small libran· in Braille for the little school at Gre'at Lakes, a friend gen erously ga \'C us $10 for this purpose. "\iVith the co-operation of the teacher at Great Lakes and of Prof. \Villiam A. Hadley of the Correspondence School for - the Blind, in \\rinnetka, we expect to fill one more need in thi's work for our disabled veterans. "The next meeting of the committee will be held Fehruan· 7. with Mrs. E. P. Fa tch, 611 \Vashi;1gton avenue." fascinating fabrics to illustrate her facts about complementa.r y color. A change of texture to make a one-color fabric interesting by the resulting oscillation between adjacents was one point illustrated. A complementary note itl lesser quantity gives a more beautiful .result, was another. Certain types of people seem to go with certain types of colors. Louis XVI couldn't have lived in a reddraped room that Henry VIII might have ordered decorated. Miss Parker read from Henry Van Dyke's "The Desert," beautiful passages of description of color written with an artist's insight. The next of the five talks will be on ~{on day, Jan\tan· 31. Morton Howard The regular meeting of The Keighhors \\'a:; hl:ld Tu es day afte.rnoon at tit(· Kenil\\'orth club. An unusually large number \\'as pre se nt and mo st enthusiasticalh rece ived the very fine talk gin·n In· Dr. Bertram r\elson, proie ssor oi pt1hlic spea king at the U ni ,·e rsit\· of Chicago. He mo st deftly illust1:ated the use of music in the voice for reading, showing so well how a mos t \'ita! poem could be utterly lost i o ll o\\·~: hv the la ck impror>er usc of inflections. Morning Session-10:30 'l'he afternoon's program was conclud\Vh at Ts Goocl Government? ed with a group of piano numbers by \\'hat Your Off1cials Do For You ~f ort on Howard, a pianist of most \\'hat You Do F or Your Local unusual ability. Govcrnm en t 'l'ucscla,· morni1lg, Janu;u~· 23. at \Vhv Yot c 10:13, th<.~ regular meeting of the music 2 The Place of P olitical Parties department will be held at the home of Luncheon 12:30-1 :30. Re se rvati ons ~1r s. Ernc~t H. Flei:;chmann, 235 Leima,· be made with Mrs. E. \·. cester road. After the current events. \' o~mghcrg, \Vilmcttc 3556: !\Irs. the progra111 will b e in charge of Mis-, ] as per King, \Vilm ctte 2230 Helch Sears. She will take as her Our . Immigration Laws and Propossubject. "Peterboro and it .; Influence eel Changes now before Congres , in the \\·orld of Art s." ~Ir s. K. F. Rich, dir ector Immigrants Protecti,·e League . Afternoon Session-1: 30-3:30 Next Merrill Lecture \f casu res of the H our at Woman's Club Monday (a 'l In Congress Shcppa rei -To"·ncr. Ci\·il Serril'('. The seco nd of the lecture s on books and the Pr ohibition Unit, \fn ..;clt.and current affairs given under the Shoals auspices of the literature committee of (b) Tn the Leg islature the \Voman's club of \Vilmette by Mr s. Short Ballot Proposals, The Di Anthom· French Merrill. occurs next rect Prim a r "· Ci\'il Exten:-.ion ~fonda\· afternoon at 2. in the \Vom Sen·ice, \\.om~n on Juries, \\'oan's clt~h. Thi s series of six lectures is man' s Rdormaton·, Di :; trihuti on open to the public, and the proceeds in of State School .Fund, Shorter excess of the expenses will go to the Hottrs for \Vomtn \V o r k e ~· "· club building fund, it has been an Child \\'clfarc nounced. Single tickets may he ob tained at the door. Mrs. J, C. Mannerud is chairman of CATHOLIC LEAGUE TO SEW the committee in charge of the talks, The n·gular sewing meeting of the assisted by Mrs. ]. Melville · Brown, North Shore Catholic vVoman's league Mrs. Frank Merrill, Mrs. Ira Reynolds, will br held at the home of Mrs. \V. Mrs. Thaddeus MacRae, M.rs. E. L. ]. Schneider of 911 Yrrnon avenue, Scheidenhelm, Mrs. William Richard- Glcntoc. Tuesday afternoon. January son, and ¥ rs. Benjamin Roodhouse. 25. 1 SEW FOR DORCAS HOME Not only members of the Woman's club of vVilmctte, but any woman in the village desirous of doing her bit for charity is cordially invited by the philanthropy department of the club to come to it,s all day sewing session, commencing at 10 o'clock this morning, in the clubhouse. Luncheon will he served. The \York is to he done for Dorcas Home. ADDRESSES SOCIETY The Illinois Children's Home and Aid societv held its annual meeting Thursday a·fternoon at the Casino, Chicago. Dr. Herman M. Adler of the Institute for ] uvenile Research, gave an address. The Club of Business and sional Women of \Vilmette dinner Thursday evening o'clock, at the Congregational Profesmet for at 6 :30 · church.