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History of Mother's Day

Ana Jarvia, from Grafton, WV, started a campaign in 1908 to establish a national Mother's Day.  She was able to get her mother's church in Grafton to celebrate Mother's Day on the anniversary of her mother's death.  Therefore, a memorial service was held there on May 10, 1908.  When Jarvis moved to Philadelphia in 1909, she continued to honor the celebration.

Others hearing about Jarvis's idea began a letter writing campaign to politicians, ministers, etc., to establish a national Mother's Day.  President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 proclaimed that a national observance will be celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of May each year.

 The date was first celebrated in Philadelphia, PA, in 1907.  The observance was based on the suggestions of a Julia Ward Howe in 1872 and by Anna Jarvis in 1907.  Anna Jarvis used carnations at the first Mother's Day celebration, because carnations were her mother's favorite flower.  The wearing of aa white carnation is to honor a deceased mother, wearing a pink carnation is to honor a living mother.

Anna Jarvis and the florist industry ended up disagreeing over the selling of flowers for Mother's Day. As the industry publication, Florists' Review, put it, "This was a holiday that could be exploited."   In one press release criticizing the floral industry, Anna Jarvis wrote "What will you do to route charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and other termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations?" When, in the 1930s, the U.S. Postal Service announced a Mother's Day stamp with the image of Whistler's Mother and a vase of white carnations, Anna Jarvis responded by campaigning against the stamp. She persuaded President Roosevelt to remove the words, Mother's Day, but not the white carnations.

Jarvis disrupted a meeting of the American War Mothers in the 1930s, protesting their sale of white carnations for Mother's Day, and was removed by the police.   In the words, again, of the Florists' Review, "Miss Jarvis was completely squelched." Mother's Day remains, in the United States, one of the best sales days for florists.

Anna Jarvis was confined to a nursing home at the end of her life, penniless. Her nursing home bills were paid, unknown to her, by the Florist's Exchange.

  The Ancient Greeks honored their mothers.  But then it was Rhea the Mother of the gods that was celebrated, not the mortal mothers.

In the British Isles and Celtic Europe, the goddess Brigid, and later her successor St. Brigid, were honored with a spring Mother's Day, connected with the first milk of the ewes. 

Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday in honor of Cybele, a mother goddess, March 22-25 - the celebrations were notorious enough that followers of Cybele were banished from Rome

Then in the 1600's in England there was a observance called "Mothering Sunday."  During Lent on the Fourth Sunday honors were paid to everyone's mother.  All servants were encouraged to return to their homes and honor their mothers.  Furmety, a sweetened boiled cereal dish, was often served at the family dinner during Mothering Sunday celebrations. People usually visited with their mothers carrying a special "Mothering Cake" to add to the celebration.

Other countries of the world do celebrate  Mother's Day, but at different times of the year.  Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium join with the USA in celebrating Mother's Day on the 2nd Sunday in May.

• Never leave the house unless you have changed your underwear; you never know when you'll have an accident.

• Why are you making that face?  Don't you know it could freeze in that position?

• Don't put sharp things near your eye. You might put your eye out.

• If everyone jumped off a cliff?  I guess you would jump too.

• Eat your food!  People are starving in other countries.

• I could plant a garden with the dirt on your neck and ears.  Go wash!

• Were you born in a barn?  Close that door right now.  
• Turn out that light!  You are wasting electricity.

• If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.

• Don't put that in your mouth because you don't know where it's been!

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