Show the name Is familiar fa 11 BY FE FELIX x B s and d E ELMO lm SCOTT WATSON pompadour EVER VER since about 1895 americans have called a straight back off the jhc forehead a pompadour but the word was in use in france since the early part ol of the eighteenth century when the marquise de pompadour was mistress of louis XV and the french confine the word to describing her everything that was in vogue during I 1 the time ti ame mme pompadour was louis naughty playmate w was a s named for her various items of apparel were included like the long coats t the h e men wore with their knee breeches and powdered wigs tho those s e long pompadour sticks they carried that looked like bo peeps except that they had a silver ball on the top instead of a crook were called pompadour sticks A shade of pink was called pompadour pink even a fish has been named the pompadour not because it wears its scales straight back or carries a stick but because it is that same shade of passionate pink that flashed across louis court when he had a date the marquise de pompadours Pompa dours given name the name sh she e was known by until she made good with the king was jean poisson poisson is french for fish so naming a fish pompadour was merely returning the compliment teddy bear THE HE coy mild teddy bear the idol of all small children was named after the brusque forceful theodore roosevelt as a result of a bear hunt down in mississippi during november 1902 for 10 days teddy and his companions searched in vain for big game one morning the cry of bear was raised and the president hurried out of his tent to discover a small frightened cub which had been dragged into camp for him to shoot take him away snorted teddy contemptuously if I 1 shot that little fellow I 1 would be ashamed to look into the faces of my children when clifford K berryman cartoonist for the washington post heard of the incident he drew this cartoon 5 jew overnight the cartoon became famous and soon the teddy bear became the subject of innumerable verses and stories then the toy makers took advantage of its vogue and it became a more popular toy for children than the panda 0 of f today released by western newspaper union |