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Nowadays, teddy bears and flowers are favored gifts for any function. Gifted during a baby christening is a lovable stuffed toy. It is a box of sterling roses for a wedding anniversary. A birthday is best celebrated with a stuffed teddy bear that comes with a bouquet of blossoms. A life-sized stuffed Koala with pink roses to boot will melt the heart of any sweetheart. A teddy bear for him and her, with a flowerpot of chrysanthemums make a perfect housewarming present.

Presenting bears and flowers as gifts don’t even need any grand occasion. Expressions of love, gratitude, surprise, even condolences and get-well-soon wishes are made through gifts of bears and flowers. The practice of giving gifts started at the onset of the human race. Historic chronicles say that gifts were initially used for bartering possessions. Bequeathing estates as a form of inheritance also counted as gift-giving. The upper echelon of society presented gifts as a mark of gratitude, revitalized friendships or earned privileges.

Gifts also have subliminal meanings. According to the customs of Ancient Romans, coins meant prosperity, lamps lighted one’s journey through life, and pastries stood for happiness. The Three Wise Men gave the Baby Jesus gifts of myrrh, frankincense and gold. Persians exchanged eggs as gifts, symbolizing fertility. Flowers as gifts also cover a gamut of meanings involving love, sincerity, intensity of character, etc. etc. Care and nurture are represented by teddy bears. Also induced are feelings of warmth.

Giving flowers is a custom that has an early history. Grave sites of long ago have yielded evidence of floral fossils. Accounts of giving flowers are likewise common in Egyptian hieroglyphics, very early Chinese writings and even ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Giving flowers was regarded by early civilizations as an effective means of conveying views, ideas and emotions. Ancient Greeks believed flowers had an affinity with the divine. All throughout the Middle Ages, the custom of giving flowers was kept strong. The practice of giving flowers as gifts was kept alive by the French and the English, also.

Meanwhile, the teddy bear was inspired by a hunting incident that concerned former United States President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1902, President Roosevelt was invited by the Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino to go hunting. A black bear was tied by several attendants of President Roosevelt to a willow tree and they asked the former President to shoot it. The President refused though, because he considered it very unsportsmanlike. The bear was still shot though, upon his orders, to free it of its misery. This incident became the theme of a political cartoon.

The political cartoon, in turn, inspired Morris Michton to create a novel toy. The new plaything was a stuffed bear cub. He called his new toy Teddy’s bear, to honor President Roosevelt, whose nickname was Teddy. Mr Michton even obtained permission to utilise the President’s name, after sending him a prototype. A stuffed bear was also produced in Germany from the designs of Richard Steiff. In March 1903, these toys were shown at the Leipzig Toy Fair. By 1906, there was a full-fledged teddy bear rage. What followed, as most people would allege, is history.

The giving of teddy bears and flowers as gifts has become an eternal tradition. By the way, there is a rose named Teddy Bear.

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