Last month’s birth-color formula was
missing two numbers and, since this made it
difficult finding your number, I’ll repeat the
formula:
- Birth Year 1930 = 1+9+3+0=13=(1+3)=4
- Birth Month 12= (1+2)=3
- Birthday 13 = (1+3)= 4
- Add the results: 4+3+4=11=(1+1)=2
Colors by number are: 1-Red, 2-Orange,
3-Yellow, 4-Green, 5-Blue, 6-Indigo, 7-Violet,
8-Pink and pastels, 9-all other colors.
Remember: your "birth" color may not
be your favorite color. It does, however,
influence the temperament and destiny of your
life just as your Zodiac sign is an influence.
In 1935 the Bureau of Rural Life of the
National Congress of Parents and Teachers held
its annual convention in Denver, Colorado. Among
other items discussed, the problem with
"wayward" youth was uppermost. The
Congress urged a return of the "Quilting
Party" as a curb on modern youth. (Explain
that again?)
Lowell, Massachusetts, was home to one of the
first textile mills in America. According to
Harriet Robinson in Loom and Spindle, the first
calico printed in Lowell had a madder background
and cost 30 cents a yard.
The madder color was the product of a cow
yard close to the print works. In the madder
style of dyeing fabric, the woven cloth is first
printed with a thickened mordant (a substance to
fix or set dye color.) It was dried for two to
three days to become insolubly attached to the
cloth.
The third step was called
"dunging." The printed cloth was run
through a solution of cow dung and water. This
would remove the unattached mordant and the
thickening agent. A substitute for cow dung was
invented in 1839, so cow yards and calico
factories did not have to be near each other.