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TN such a small private room as this a blue has been sometimes used on walls to help increase its apparent size. But with blue predomi nating, the atmosphere of the room becomes formal, cold, depressing. , Hospital authorities are exercising Vr * more and more care in the selection of the proper colors for decorating interiors. fVilh that in mind this article and others have been ufriiten. Precious articles dealt tenth red, yellow, .gray and v>hite. The next will discuss green. They are by M. Rea Paul, consulting colorist of National Lead Company. Extra copies of these articles can be obtained by writing to our nearest branch office. Cold.. Depressing... BLUE BLUE has in the past been used in hospitals because it was thought to have a quiet ing effect on patients. But there is danger in permitting blue to The coolest of the colors, tending to create an atmosphere of gloom, blue is avoided as a decoration for hospital walls. Letcolor specialists helpyou YOU can with no expense obtain the cooperation of our Department of Decoration predominate in finishes for hos in selectingthepropercolors for pital interiors. hospital. It creates an atmosphere any room in your hospital or for Intense blue is more than merely that is directly the opposite of the the enti re building. The staff of this quieting. It is depressing and usually cheering, encouraging atmosphere department have made a special produces a cold atmosphere that which should permeate a hospital study of hospital decoration and the helps to create a state of melancholia and which is induced by a color such therapeutic value attributed to color. in the minds of patients exposed to as blue's complement, yellow. They are working today with hos it. Its absorption of the warming, In considering colors, then, for in pital administration boards, super health-encouraging yellow light rays terior decoration, blue should never intendents and architects on the robs it of any power to act as a posi predominate.What coloryou will em subject, preparing paint specifica tive, stimulating influence in aiding ploy deserves careful consideration. tions, paint formulas and actual the mental and physical recovery of Every room and every hospital color samples. the side. should be thought of as a separate More than 200 hospitals through Blue a receding color problem. Your hospital interiors out the country are successfully will present entirely different prob using the color treatments recom BLUE, and colors in which blue lems from those of another institu mended by this department. If you predominates, such as green- tion. Among the factors to be con wish further information regarding blue and violet-blue, are on the lisstidered are the amount of natural the service which this of "receding" colors--colors which illumination in a room, the exposure, department can render have sometimes been employed be (whether it faces north or south, east you, write to the Depart cause they tend to increase a room's or west), the dimensions of the room, ment of Decoration in apparent size. But their use even its height and type of ceiling and the careofour nearest branch. for this reason is not to be recom use to which the room is put. One mended, because they are also apt fact, however, is true so far as all to make the room look empty, for hospitals and all colors are con mal and cold and, therefore, produce cerned. Any color can easily be ob NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY a strongly depressing atmosphere. tained by tinting paint made of From what has just been said it Dutch Boy white-lead and Dutch is evident that blue is extremely un Boy flatting oil with the proper col suited for decorating any part of any oring pigments. This advertisement appears in the following publication*-- Page Modern Hospital--May 0000-NLI-0000174S8