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Austin, Texas, May 14, 1897. To the Editor: —In your issue of May 1, page 854, Dr. A. C. Corr says: The blackboards ought to be clean black, etc. The color of school exercise boards is a matter of great importance, but has been strangely neglected. For, from time immemorial, it has been a fact of common knowledge, even among uneducated people, that black is the worst of colors for the eyes; hence, it has long been a custom with tailors, to charge more for making a black suit of clothes, than for any other color. For many years we have given schoolroom hygiene much special study, and have long taught, by word and pen, that school exercise boards should not be black . The best color for such boards is some shade of cream white, a dead surface of soft, mellow tint, varied in its degree of whiteness to suit
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