| Show the name Is familiar familia i BY FELIX B and ELMO EIMO SCOTT WATSON A garrison finish THEY ado HEY said you possibly possie y do it that you haan hadn t a ghost or of a chance to win but in the last moment and won you came through and that was a garrison finish its called that because its the way edward H snapper garrison one of the most famous jockeys in in american turf history won a race in 1886 when he came from nowhere with an outsider I 1 to take the great eastern handicap at sheepshead bay N Y the term stuck to snapper w who ho never liked front runners ile he held em back until they reached the stretch where as he was accustomed to remark the money is E H garrison garrisons most famous race was his victory on boundless in the worlds fair derby in chicago in 1893 on one pretext or another such as fixing his straps and his saddle he delayed the start for an hour and 42 minutes he spent most of this time on the ground thus keeping the weight off it his i s horse while the other jockeys fumed and their horses wore themselves down prancing and plunging snapper 1000 for delaying the race but he care he booted boundless a 15 to I 1 SO shot h t home in first place and that garrison finish was worth just to his owner aiho bete silhouette rhe PHE silhouette got its name from i L etienne de silhouette who was not an artist but the french minister of finance in 1759 by sheer economy he tried to remedy the evils of a war that had just ended leaving the country financially exhausted he enforced so many rules that only very plain living was possible for even those who had money clothes were made without folds or frills snuff boxes were of plain wood and table plate had to be melted down to provide money so it was that everything came to be a la silhouette A silhouette which meant very plain and in its simplest form and about this same time there originated the fad for having portraits done merely in i n outline no colors no details detail M in other words just in their plainest and simplest form they were known as pictures a la silhouette etienne de silhouettes rules were too strict and the people rebell rebelled e d after only nine months finance minister silhouette was forced to resign ind and the people went back to their customary ornate ways of life but the outline pictures remained in vogue and they were called silhouettes in memory of the man who tried to take away all the color and glamour from the french people 0 morris chair T THE HE next time you sink back into i the comfort of that old morris chair you might remember gratefully the man who made it possible for you he was an englishman named william morris born in 1834 he was successively and successfully cess fully a poet an architect and a painter he built a house in which furniture w wall a I 1 I 1 paper drapes and household utensils were all specially designed that suggested a new occupation interior decorator with several others morris organized a fir firm which did all I 1 sorts of interior terio A deo decorating ratin I 1 out uto of 11 f the work of f this firm devoted to william morris amorris the revival of sounder ideas of construction and workmanship and to winning the english back to the massive simplicity of plain oak furniture came the chair which bears the name of this painter designer scribe illuminator wood engraver dyer weaver and finally printer and oh besl he was also interested in politics first as a liberal and then as a socialist tor for whom he wrote a rallying song chants for socialists but when they drifted toward anarchism he lost confidence in the movement and went back to his first love the arts to which he devoted himself until his death in 1836 1896 lRe released leased by western newspaper union |
