Show the name nam e 1 Is familiar it I 1 BY M FEUX IL B and EIM EI M 0 SCOTT WATSON pom pompadour since a bout about 1893 1895 americans E even have called a straight baci oft I 1 the forehead a pompa dour but the word was waa in use in franco since the early part of tho the eighteenth century when the marquise marguise de pompadour was mistress of louis XV and the french confine the word vord to ft describing scribing her everything that was in vogue during the time mme ame pompadour was louis naughty playmate w was a 8 named for or her sk various ite items M a of t A f I 1 aw apparel were included like the 1 4 long coats t the h e men wore with M their knee breech es cs and po powdered wigs those long s sticks they car pompadour ried that looked like do bo peeps except that they had a silver ball on the top instead of 0 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 la Is that same shade of passionate pink that flashed across louis court when lie he had a date the marquise de pompadours Pompa dours given namo name the name she W was known by until she made go good d with 1 I the king kingway w was as jean Is french for fish shaming a elsh pompadour was merely merell returning the compliment teddy bear rie phe coy mild toddy bear the idol of all small children was named after the brusque forceful theodore roosevelt asa as a result of a bear hunt down in mississippi during november 1002 1902 for or 10 days teddy and his companions searched in vain for big game one morning the cry of bearl 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 hima away I 1 snorted toddy teddy contemptuously it if I 1 shot that little littie fellow I 1 would be ashamed to look into the faces of my children when clifford K berryman cartoonist for the washington post pos heard of the incident dent he drew this cartoon 7 X 1 I n P A overnight the cartoon became famous and soon the teddy bear became the subject ot of innumerable verses and stories then the to toy Y makers took advantage of its vogue and it became a more popular toys to for or children than the panda of today lavalliere THE HE piece of jewelry known as a lavalliere lavall lere has been out of style for many years but it carried on for or two centuries the name of the duchess of lavalliere Lavall lere tor for whom it was named she was born in 1644 and died in 1710 noted for being the mistress of louis XIV and for her affection for pendant jewelry which hung from her throat by a chain she was known as francoise Franc olse louise de labaume le blanc and was born at tours prance france the daughter of an army officer she did not become the duchess of lavalliere Lavall lere until she bore her third child the first two died but the third lived and was lecog rime lavalliere nihed by louis as his bis daughter in letters patent he made the mother a duchess and conferred upon her tho the estate of vaujours Vau jours which gives you a rough idea of how the french tried to hush those mat up in those days the same game year she ehe gave birth to a son but louis was waa interested in someone else then and the duchess finally spent her remaining days in a convent lucky at that that she had nothing around her throat when she ahe left louis except pendant jew elry dry released by heern newspaper union |