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grown up around this subject since researchers go through telâ€" ling us just how much we are inâ€" fluenced by our surroundings. Hard headed business and inâ€" dustrial heads have been quick to eatch on. It is on record in one plant that employees kept griping about their chilly cafeteria until manâ€" agement called in the color conâ€" sultants. (Engineers had failed to find evidence to back up the emâ€" ployees‘ complaints). The consultants advised against fooling around with the thermoâ€" stat. Instead, they suggested the dull greys and neutral blues in which the cafeteria was decorated give way to vibrant pinks and sunny yellows. Workers returned and were heard to congratulate each other on winning the bout with manageâ€" ment about upping the heat, little realizing it was still set at the same temperature as before. There is little doubt today that color and design affect us greatâ€" Similar techniques are used by interior decorators when they want to make a dark nook into a welcoming hallway. They add a few deft touches of paint and wallpaper and the whole area opens up. In the same way, they "cool" tooâ€"warm roomsâ€"maybe by introâ€" ducing a hint of blue here and there. Tooâ€"cold rooms get "warmâ€" ed" with splashes of pink, red, yellow and any of the other "warm" colors. Narrow rooms can be made to look roomier and short ones lonâ€" ger if they are touched up with the right stripes, designs or colâ€" Women, in particular, seem to have always had an inborn awareâ€" ness of what is eye appealing. Even in the most undeveloped civilizations, they made definite efforts to adorn their household appointments, as designs on crude pottery testify at excavation sites. While the reasoning behind this is more widely known today, the mechanism that prompts people to beautify their surroundings is as old as time, even if people didn‘t sit down and work out the reason why. Early pottery decorations were quite different from today‘s in many ways but the motive behind both was the same, to present the eye with beauty. Technological development has made all kinds of ornamentation easy and industry has taken to using these developments to pretâ€" Indeed whole new careers have 6 Waterico Chronicie, Thursday, October 30, 1969 Come In â€"â€" See â€"â€" Save & Buy This Washer Room too cold? Change its color SPEED AUEEN WASHER SPINâ€"DRYER NOW YOU CAN ENJOY WASHDAY with a CHECK THESE MOST WANTED FEATURES â€" Large capacity Fast efficient washing Rinsing and spinâ€"drying can be done in the spin tub » No laundry tubs or special plumbing required Water and sudsâ€"saver standard equipment e aa LV TLE Y 96 KING STREET SOVThH W ATERLOO Available in White, Avocado or Harvest Golid OPEN DAiILY ty up housewares, as a trip to the china counter or kitchen deâ€" partment of firm. But there is still no satisfacâ€" tion quite like doing the work oneself and producing a thing of beauty from an otherwise plain and colorless object. Which is probably the secret behind the popularity of china painting classes sponsored by the community services board each winter. Mrs. Hazel Schumm is teacher again this year as she has been since the course was introduced four years ago. Her students paint everything from cups and saucers to cake plates and comports. They are free to choose whatever designs they like but usually the majority opts for a floral rather than a geometric design. _ _And beginners always start out with a plain tile teapot stand! Mrs. Schumm described some of the processes that lead to the FRIDAY UNTIL 9 Harze!l Schumm (right) is any store will conâ€" an expert at china painting. The china painters start off by buying a certain grade of plain white china that is already glazed. Onto this is painted whatever deâ€" sign has been selected. A powder and oil mix is used. The lighter colors are applied first with the painter using firm but very light brush strokes. Once the basic design has takâ€" en shape, the article must be fired in an oven. Afterwards, one can set to work on detail which is applied over the basic fired design. This is where the artist works in the stamens and stems of flowers, the veins in leaves and any gold work that is planned. Then the item is refired. beautifully finished china that delights the eye. Larger pieces or articles that have multiple designs, such as rose clusters, may have to be fired three times. One of Mrs. Schumm‘s students handpainted a complete. dinner set with the scrolled edge on each piece finished in gold. EASY TERMS About 50 young cyclists from Twin City Lutheran Churches raised $3,000 last Saturday for Lutherwood, a home for emotionâ€" ally disturbed children. It is beâ€" ing built just north of Waterloo in Wilmot Township by the Lu theran Churchâ€"Missouri Synod. Fifty cycists earn $3,000 The cyclists took part in a 50â€" mile bikeâ€"athon from _ Mount Zion Lutheran Chyrch here and Stratford and back. Thirty five of those who started out completed the trip. ted ing. A Poole 12â€" yearâ€"old, James Wagler, who had to receive his parents‘ permission to take part (It was for 13â€"yearâ€"olds and over) earned more than anyone else on the trip. His sponsors had backed him for $17.75 a mile which netâ€" FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH If you wish od,flfiml information about our church you may telephone the church office at 745â€"4320. MUSIC SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2nd, 8:15 P.M. The choir of First St. Andrew‘s United Church, London. Barrie Cabena â€" Conductor. _ George Black â€" Organist. COLOR and FORM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 7:30 P.M. Experience a "happening" in the visuwal artsâ€" the work of the architect, artist, photographer, sceulptor. King & William St. Waterloo Offerings used for OUTREACH and THE FAT ANGEL THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF FIRST BAPTIST INVITE YOU TO ATTEND OUR Sunday School 9:45 a.m. | Worship Services â€" 11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. USE OQOUR FREE BUS SERVICE DRAMA and FOLK MUSIC SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1l6rh, 7:30 P.M. Christ in the Concrete Cityâ€"The Intervarsity Players. FIRST UNITED CHURCH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 12 NOON The Rockway Mennonite School Choir. Jan Overduin â€" Organist. Launch available. 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