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History of Mother’s Day
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A. In 1858, when Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker, organized “Mother’s Work Days” to improve the sanitation and avert deaths from disease-bearing insects and seepage of polluted water. B. In 1872, when Boston poet, pacifist and women’s suffragist Julia Ward Howe established a special day for mothers –and for peace– not long after the bloody Franco-Prussian War. C. In 1905, when Ann Jarvis died. Her daughter, Anna, decided to memorialize her mother’s lifelong activism, and began a campaign that culminated in 1914 when Congress passed a Mother’s Day resolution.
The correct answer: All of the above. Each woman and all of these events have contributed to the present occasion now celebrated Continued on page 4
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History of Mother’s Day Continued from page 3
on the second Sunday in May. The cause of world peace was the impetus for Julia Ward Howe’s establishment, over a century ago, of a special day for mothers. Following unsuccessful efforts to pull together an international pacifist conference after the Franco-Prussian War, Howe began to think of a global appeal to women. “While the war was still in progress,” she wrote, she keenly felt the “cruel and unnecessary character of the contest.” She believed, as any woman might, that it could have been settled without bloodshed. And, she wondered, “Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?” Howe’s version of Mother’s Day, which served as an occasion for advocating peace, was held successfully in Boston and elsewhere for several years, but eventually lost popularity and disappeared from public notice in the years preceding World War I. For Ann Jarvis, also known as “Mother Jarvis,” community improvement by mothers was only a beginning. Throughout the Civil War she organized
women’s brigades, asking her workers to do all they could without regard for which side their men had chosen. And, in 1868, she took the initiative to heal the bitter rifts between her Confederate and Union neighbors. The younger Anna Jarvis was only twelve years old in 1878 when she listened to her mother teach a Sunday school lesson on mothers in the Bible. “I hope and pray that someone, sometime, will found a memorial mother’s day,” the senior Jarvis said. “There are many days for men, but none for mothers.” Following her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis embarked on a remarkable campaign. She poured out a constant stream of letters to men of prominence — President William Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt among them — and enlisted considerable help from Philadelphia merchant John Wannamaker. By May of 1907, a Mother’s Day service had been arranged on the second Sunday in May at the Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, where Mother Jarvis had taught. That same day a special service was held at the Wannamaker Auditorium in Philadelphia, which could seat no more than a third of the 15,000 people who showed up. The custom spread to churches in 45 states and in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Canada. The Governor of West Virginia proclaimed Mother’s Day in 1912; Pennsylvania’s governor in 1913 did the same. The following year saw the Congressional Resolution, which was promptly signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Mother’s Day has endured. It serves now, as it originally did, to recognize the contributions of women. Mother’s Day, like the job of “mothering,” is varied and diverse. Perhaps that’s only appropriate for a day honoring the multiple ways women find to nurture their families, and the ways in which so many have nurtured their communities, their countries, and the larger world.
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Indianland Garden Club kicked off the year with their first meeting on March 10th. President Kathy Heist (center of table in bottom photo) introduced her officers left to right at table, Cindi Christman, treasurer, Doris Meehan, Vice President, Connie Nagy, Secretary and Ann Marie Martin, Vice President. Arrangements and specimens were enjoyed by everyone-Connie shows off her blooming Christmas cactus. 29 former members welcomed 5 new members that evening. The group was treated to a slide show from the events and tours of 2019.
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In Honor of Mothers Everywhere
In honor of mothers everywhere, a few memorable quotes on motherhood: “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them.” Victor Hugo “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” Sophia Loren “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” Honore de Balzac
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” A Jewish Proverb “Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.” Anonymous “The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.” Jessica Lange “The best medicine in the world is a mother’s kiss.” Anonymous
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T iss der Tsitt [Zitt], er holt sich Geilgscharr; Baut sei glee Nescht un weess nix fun Gfaahr. Der U un der V! Weess net was zu duh! Mer hockt un mer denkt, wie'n schliww'richer Bu. W is fer Wachdel, sie gleicht ee bissel Gschpass; Ruft dann em Bauer, „ 'S macht nass! Macht nass!“ X iss noch eener, bin graad widder fescht; Wott ich waer 'n Voggel un hett 'n gut Nescht! Y hot ken Naame, mer meent's kennt net sei; Hett des gaern faerdich, dann muss ich verbei! Z iss der Zaahschlibber, Keenich im Hof. Yetz bin ich faerdich un grick mol mei Schlof! Ya, veil gude Veggel, un Oh, wie ich wott Ihr deede sie ehre – en Gschenk vun unser’m Gott! -Rev. William J. Rupp Continued on page 14
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D stands for Doves, the wild and the tame; A pair on the barn, the others in the tree.
A Birds‘ ABCs A is [stands for] the Robin, so proud and happy; It sings every morning, “Spring is here!”
E is for Ducks, also yet the Owls; They quack and carry on, laugh and cry out.
B is the Bluebird out on the fence; Two Pewees with it and swinging their tails.
F is for the Heron down in the swamp; Sneaks along the way for the old frog.
C is the Crane and also not the Heron or Bittern; It is nothing like the Eastern Green Heron, that
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