And he refused to shoot it. Because of that incident a cartoon of a bear was drawn by Clifford Berriman of the Washington Star, and thereafter whenever the paper did a cartoon, the bear was featured. The toy industry first introduced the bear as a boy's companion, similar to a girl's doll. Very quickly girls learned that it was a bit more durable than their porcelain dolls, so they started playing with bears also. And so began arctophilia.
Most Naples visitors come because it is considered a vacation paradise.
Then they go home and face a different reality. But that didn't work for Walter Wiesmueller. He came to Naples to vacation and decided that he preferred paradise as a permanent address. So he moved his glass-making factory from Bavaria to the beach in Florida, and he named it Glasparadies. They ended up with objects that looked like they were made of silver, but were much less expensive.