Our Hobbies
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.” - Walter Lippmann
Muffy Vanderbear And Friends
Sue collects Muffy! And the complete family. Here is Muffy in her Valentine costume and her Mommy and Daddy ready for a rousing game of golf!! she is quite well dressed... having outfits for ALL occasions! Do you know how the word "Teddy Bear" came about????
Meet Muffy and Gang!
What's the big deal? Their costumes make collecting a lot of fun.
Teddy Bears
In November of 1902, President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, twenty-sixth
President of the United States, was on a hunting trip in Mississippi
while trying to settle a boundary dispute between Mississippi and
Louisiana. Being an accomplished outdoorsman, he liked to bag big game,
and was well known for his hunting prowess. However, his hunt was going
poorly that day, and targets were scarce.
His staff, trying to accommodate him, captured a Louisiana black bear
cub for the President to shoot, but he could not. The thought of
shooting a bear that was tied to a tree did not seem sporting, much less
such a young cub unable to defend itself, so he spared the life of the
black bear cub and set it free.
A famous political cartoonist for the Washington Star, Mr. Clifford
Berryman, drew a cartoon titled, "Drawing the Line in Mississippi" which
used the story of the President refusing to shoot the bear as a metaphor
for how he dealt with the boundary dispute. The cartoon became famous
throughout Washington and was reprinted nationally, sparking the
imagination of toy manufacturer Morris Michtom of Brooklyn, N.Y. He
asked for and was granted President Roosevelt’s permission to use his
name for the hand-sewn bears that he and his wife made, and the "Teddy
Bear" was born!