Choosing Soothing Lamp-Shade Colors by J. O. Beard

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

Choosing Soothing Lamp-Shade Colors

By J. O. Beard

THE use of red lamp-shades is very common. But no other color is so irritating to the eye as red. Green and blue are the most agreeable colors to the eye. God either made the grass and leaves green because that color is so agreeable to the eye, or he adapted the eye to green because there is so much of that color in the world. It makes no difference which way it was, the adaptation is perfect; and if you have been using a red lamp-shade, put a green one in its place, and observe what a soothing effect it has on the eyes. J. O. Beard.