Show thenamae the name Is Familiar BY FEUX FELIX 11 and aai mao EIMO SCOTT WATSON A garrison finish Y said you possibly d do it that you a ghost of a chance to td win but in the last moment you came through and won and that was a garrison finish its called that because it its s the wa way edward H snapper garr garrison so one of the most famous jockeys in american turf history won well a race c in 1886 when he came from ewh nowhere r with an outsider to take the great eastern easte rn handicap at sheepshead bay N Y the term stuck to snapper who never liked front runners he hel held d em back until they reached the stretch where as he be was accustomed to remark althe me money cy Is E v H n pari garrison garrisons most famous race was his victory on camouse bound boundless s s in the worlds F pair air 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 k keeping the weight off his horse while hile the other jockeys fumed and their horses wore themselves down prancing and plunging snapper was fined 1000 for delaying the race but he care he booted boundless a 15 to 1 shot home in first place and that garrison garlson gan lson finish was worth just 60 to his owners a a 0 silhouette T THE HE silhouette got its name from etienne de silhouette who was not an artist but the french minister 0 of f 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 JIB folds or frills H snuff boxes were Sl Hk of plain wood and yf table plate had bad to RB be melted down to provide money so it was that everything came y to be a la ette which meant A silhouette very plain and in its simplest form and debout this same time there originated the lad fad for having portraits done merely in outline no colors no details 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 rebelled after only nine months finance minister silhouette was forced to resign 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 0 morris chair 0 THE rhe next time you sink back into JL the comfort ot of that old morris chair you might remember gratefully the man who made it possible for you he was an Engl englishman ishma n named william morris born in 1834 he was successively and su suc c cess fully a poet an architect and a painter lie ile built a house bouse in which furniture w wall a I 1 I 1 paper drapes and household utin utensils sili were all specially designed th that at suggested anew a new occupation CN in interior t erbor decorator with several k J others morris organized a firm which did all so sorts arts of interior decorating out of the work of this firm devoted to william morris 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 ll wood engraver dyer weaver and finally anally printer and 11 oh ob yest he was also interested in politics first as a liberal and then as a socialist for whom he wrote a rallying song chants for socialists but when they drifted I 1 toward anarchism he lost confidence fience in the movement and w went e n t back to his first love the aresto arts art sto to which he be devoted himself until his death in 1898 1896 released by western newspaper Newe paper union |