SUMMARY

The story about the possible origin of the teddy bears can be traced to 1902. When U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt made a trip south of the country with the intention to mediate a border dispute between Louisiana and Mississippi. To entertain his hosts to the president organized a hunt, an old bear captured, wounded and tired, which was tied to a tree for the president to shoot him and had a trophy "easy" to take home. Roosevelt refused to do so, the incident that was caricatured by cartoonist Clifford Berryman cartoon having its national coverage. The newspaper drawing inspired a toy salesman named Morris Michton to sew a doll, teddy bear a rudimentary that in the absence of anything better, had buttons instead of eyes. Michton put the bear and the Berryman cartoon of newspaper clippings in the window of his shop, with the sole intention of attracting the attention of passersby on their trade. In so doing, he knew that had just been born king of the toys.