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8 Manna Jarvis’s first gift idea for -
remembering mom on Mother's Day
_ was flowers] But Jarvis, who started.
-Mother’s Day, was thinking. of the. wi'd

flowers that flourished so profusc.y
over the hillsides of her. rural |

Virginia home. Thal was back in 1908,
when alt a faving son or daughter had
to do was hike out to a nearby field,

‘property, and pick.an armful,
est

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‘year. long. Because most moms love
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‘These days, a pift-of flowers for.
mother. is.no. further away. than your:

your choicé and have them delivered ,

just’put it off until the last minute,

“Even if your mom lives around the’

an‘pick them up and detiver them,

- probably tight on the: family’ ‘Ss own at

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(heir ‘first flight. Radi

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“tress. Movies: were. slill‘in ‘the nick- *

eladcon age -— - black and: white, grainy,

erratic, and mot a serious entertainment ©
_ medium. There were phonograph cylin-

io ‘was a: curiosily, - :

ders, but-sound, xeproduction: was, at

best, audible; but. ‘hardly’ faithful!

Television hadii't: been thought: of, let. ;

atone invented, ~

It was in this simpler’ time. that Anna
Reeves Jarvis. conceived.of Mother's
Day. It was to bea tribute’ to her owa
recently deceaséd mother, as well-as a:
glorification of American motherhood’

and-a tribute to mothers ‘everywhere.
‘The fact ‘that the first Mother’s Day was. -

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observed itt the: little ‘West Virginia vil-
lage of Grafton is testimony to the
roots”. appreciation of cur moth-
ers that is identifi ed with, our traditional
cultural values...
jarvis Was a school teacher trans-
planted by-fate. and family mobility’
from West Virginia to Philadelphia. She
came from a-family Ahat-was used. to
helping others,’ Her mother had toiled to
ease the sufferings ‘of Civil War veier-

ans. So it seemed appropriate. that she «

would be inspired to, continue ‘the good
works identified. with her family.

in. 1905: Two years later, Jarvis
announced to some friends her intent ta
create a new- holiday on the anniversary
of her.mother’s passing. It. was
Mother’s Day, in her memory and in
recognition of the contributions of
mothers everywhere to the country’s
well being and development. So it was,

with the support of John Wanamaker, -

merchant, civic leader and philan-
thropist, and numerous public groups,
that Jarvis organized the first. Mother’s
Day, It was observed, not in Philadelphia,

but in Grafton, West Virginia, i in the cen- .

ter of her family’s origins. It was an idea
whose time had come! -

Within two years, Mother’s Day was

declared a West Virginia state holiday
by Governor William Glassman.
Congress enacted Mother's Day by

Joint Congressional-Resolution as a —°

National Observance, and directed
President Woodrow Wilson to issue the
first Presidential - Mother’ s Day

pe amation in 1914, -
hoe ee ‘Mother's ‘Day i is celebrated
95 perdént of Fale Americans,

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ANNA M. JARVIS, whose daughter
created Mother's Day in her
honor,

Jarvis's idea of a Mother's Day was not
the first.. After the devastating -Franco-

Prussian. War, 1870-71, «Harriet

. Beecher Ward organized a Mother's
Day movement, dedicated to prevent- -

‘ing fulure.wars through the concerted’

ae ld.
Tarvis's beloved mother pas Sed away action of ‘mothers all over: the: wor!

‘But the timing was wrong, “and after a:

. few years, the movement failed. The
world. had:r not yet arrived at, the Point,

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where a League of, Nations < or a United
Nations could capture ‘continued inter-
est and support..[t took the: emotional
involvement of the family and the

nation to make the. -modern Mother’ s

Day a viable institution.” "7

Originally, Jarvis’s: idea. was to fol-
low a Sunday. sermon: with-an-extra
visit to mother, 4 personally: ‘petined

letter, or a gift of some: wild flowers

that dotted the rural colintryside a the,
lime.

Today, greeting, cards have replaced”

letters and notes.:Phone'calls ‘have

replaced visits as families aré now’ sep-
arated by vast distances, and wild flow-
ers have been supplanted by flowers-. ..
by-wire services. And perhaps, a couple
of years down the road, a picture-phone -
will serve to bring-grown-up children
and mom together. And since:
Americans are givers at heart, affection.

for mother finds expression in gifts —':

clothing, jewelry, perfume, appliances,
photos and candy.

From such humble beginnings has
sprung a truly international holiday.
People in countries around the world.
pause to pay homage. to their mothers,

Sc let's be grateful that there Was an -

Anna Jarvis, who, though never a
mother herself, had @n_ inspiration 83
years ago to leave us the legacy of

Mother's Day. Don't forget: that . ;

Mother's Day is Sunday, May ial.

__ isthe one day of the year when we stop
"to remeniber.all the things mother has

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Day! — which.is how many children
. .honor their-mothers on Mother's Day. :
- That‘could mean hosting at home, or
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Wiiy is. Mother’s Day different from another time-honored custom,
all aiher days? Because Mother's Day.” » Next best thing to visitimg mother is
culling her on the phone. These days,
when families. are separated by hundreds
of miles, this is how many of us have to
-do it, And it costs so little, now that you
satisfying: ey . oan choose ‘afnong several national long

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be cherished by mother all yearlong. when’you do.it your own ‘way — to fit

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diversion that marries fun with family
togetherness.

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mot: far. behind gift-giving” for

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“thing from: appliances to
the rise in the cost of college education,
there’s hardly a family that doesn’t
need the support of two incomes to
achieve its most. modest goals. Couple.
the economic phenomenon of difficulty’
making ends.meet with the lime it takes
to care for childten, and you have’
Christmas! It. doesn’t have to be a big. mothers working around the clock.
ciate you” ond reflects her tastes and -
lifestyle, It's the thought that's most

(when Mother’s Day got: its start), the
number of mothers working outside the
home was miniscule indeed. And most
of these mothers were engaged in
housekeeping that was arduous but not
quite the ‘ ‘pressure cooker” environ-
tment of ‘today's professional women.
Tensions and responsibilities have
mounted for mothers.

» Come to think of it — and alot of the lifestyle of your own mother:==..
children do think of it — taking mioth-
er out for a movie, a drive in the coun-

Today, with the. high cost of every:

women who elect to use their educa-
zucchini,

tion to advance their economic status
also cherish the traditional values of
motherhood. Often, faced with the
option of choosing one or the other, '
they opt to defer motherhood until they
have established their careers, Then,
they combine careers with mother:
hood, and the workplace must adapt to
" meet the challenge of the mother who -/
warks,
These days as many as 7§ percent
| * of all mothers with children under 18
Back at the-turn of the century. are out there working at both sides of
life — holding down jobs in the work-
place and managing their households,
{More than 50 percent of young moth-
ers with toddlers not yet in school
hold down jobs oulside the home.)
There is Nothing to suggest that the
trend will soon abate. The able,
trained minds of young women are
not likely to find ultimate satisfaction
in only raising children, as important

proved is that you can do both and

happiness” that makes every waking
hour a more stressful experience. But

mothers can and do make. ,

New pressures , Economic realities

sion has reared its ugly head’ among:
lot of families, forcing some “slay-at
‘homé” mothers to find employment to
help keep the family afloat i ina ‘slack.
ening economy.

The working mother i is here. to say.

doubly-pressed mother will become
more the norm as we move into 21st

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