The Washington herald., 1907-03-17

the Liberty Bell The idea started a hun
dred firms In different cities 10 printing
souvenir cards, and in a short tine the
mails were flooded with a deluge of pic
ture postaIs. representing every phase OF
life from the cradle 10 the grave.
When Miss Harriet Lane. niece Of Pres
ident Buchanan. was mistress OF the
White House during the administration
of her bachelor uncle, she appeared one
evening with her wealth Of beautiful hair
falling over her shoulders. loosely con-
fined in a net the color Of her hair
Some one said "it looks Ike waterfall"
and for the next ten years the ladies OF
America wore their hair Ia waterfall
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth innocently
started an epidemic Of red hats ia the
Philippines when she accompanied the Taft
party to the far East. Il was scorchIng
hot the morning she landed In Manila.
but. nothing daunted, she dehed old Sol
and tropic conventionalities by wearing a
red hat ashore. Inside of twenty-four
hours every other woman in town was
out in crimson headgear. In their eager
hess to adopt the new styls the ladies
demonstrated no small amount OF iuge-
nuity. Old hats were made over with
any kind Of red material that might be
had, from wells 10 bandanud handker-
chiefs. The rad caught so quickly that
dull old Manila was ablaZe with color
before the inhabitants could get their
breath.
Roller skates were brought into Amer
lea in 1875 with French troupe of aero
bats called "The Four Ravels." Ia their
first form they were merely four wheels
placed under the foot one behind the
other, and very awkward to use. In this
form they received little OF no attention
in this country, and it was not until just
before the civil war that some one was
clever enough TO rearrange the wheels.
The children started their popularity
then. as they have on each Of the peri
odicaI revivals. At the Philadelphia
| Centennial. in 1876 a rink was made and
roller skating attained great popularity.
| Instructors were provided who taught the
grown people 10 compete with the chill
dren. From that time 10 the present.
roller skating has held a precarious posi-
ti0n in the popular fancy It has been
forgotten One year and revived the next.
until the last and most prolonged enthu-
siasm has put the entire country on the
/ flying wheels.
The wearing Of pink carnations in the
/ legislative halls was started by the late
/ President Mckinley when he represented
I Ohio in the Lower House Of Congress. It
was then merely a personal fad. but st
made such an impression that when be
became President all his floral presents
We're Of these flowers. There was never
a day that the White House was not
adorned with them. and the President al
! ways wore one in his buttonhole. At the
/ time of his death, the American people
wanted some way of COmmemOrating him.
and decided upon this as the distinctive
way of doing it. In this way it has al
/ most become the national flower On
/ Mckinley Day the florists find it al
most impossible 10 supply the demand
/ for carnations
1t was President Roosevelt's indOrse-
ment Of Charles Waguer's Simple Life"
that gave that book and its author such
/ prominence in America. Some enterpris-
ing reporter entered the Presidents s
private car on a Southern trip and picked
up the book that the Executive had Just
laid down- II was The Simple Life in
/ French. The telegraph wires of the Asso-
ciated Press flashed the fact over the
country. enterpTising book dealers im1ne-
diately ordered thousands Of English
I copies. and the book was made, SO far as
America was concerned
Until few years before the civil war
- 4..s.l- IL
other scions Of the night-shade family.
and were used only as ornamental shrubs
in flower gardens They We're called
love apples and the first were brought
into the United States by an army officer.
who planted them in a prison yard over
which he had been placed in authority.
4 prisoner with an investigating turn of
mind tasted one of the love apples one
day and did not die. When lie pronounced
lie good, and suggested its use as food, the
officers wife tried IL. Thus the tomato be-
came one Of the standard foods of the
country. II Is regarded as almost indis-
pensable by cowboys and prospectors on
long trips In the West, because its juice
satisfies thirst.
Tho widespread craze for tie Teddy
bear" has almost busted the doll trust.
When President Roosevelt was in Mis-
sissippi on a bear hunt, and had almost
despaired of success. he was called out
one morning 10 see a sCraWny little cub
held by two siX-f0Ot negroes, and told
to shoot If he wanted 10 carry something
home II couldn't face nay family If
shot that little thing" said the President
The Associated Press bulletin telling of
the iucongruOus situation found its way
into the hands of Clifford X Bergman. the
cartOonst, who Immediately introduced the
Presidents little bear 10 fame. The com
ical aspect of the cub attracted wide at
tention. and Mr.. Bergman used him
again and again He has since been
copied by t0ymakers. made into ginger
bread by bakers, inserted on stick pins
by jewelers.. and sent travelling through
foreign countries by other cartoonists.
TO-mOrrOw-TaIISin in the senate,