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Show oooooooooooooooooooooooooo My Mother WHEN God made her He said : This shall be cast in My most perfect mold. 2 'If SHE shall have love, reason, understanding, justice, sympathy. sym-pathy. HER life motto shall be service, serv-ice, her guide be kindness 2 J A WD this one He made-My made-My Mother. ANITA B. COOK. c-c-oooooooooooooooooooooooo Origin of Mother's Day in Dispute Honor of First Observance Claimed by Town of Henderson, Ky. It has been the popular belief that the second Sunday In May was the day first suggested for Mother's day, but the natives of this Kentucky town have an entirely different version, ver-sion, writes Martha Lee Forgy from Henderson, Ey to the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Folk here, Miss Forgy continues, Insist the day was originated by Mary Towles Sasseen Wilson. Born and reared In this little city, on the south bank of the Ohio river, in the 'GOs, Miss Sasseen labored to baye April 20, her mother's natal day, observed In the schools tn the manner In which the day Is now celebrated. She traveled extensively and addressed ad-dressed various educational meetings throughout the country In her effort to have the day observed In the schools. It was In the little Center "iV ti Mrs. Mary Towles Sasseen Wilson. street school of Henderson that the first observance of Mother's duy was held by Miss Sasseen, and In 1S04 she succeeded in having It celebrated In the public schools of Springfield, Ohio. In 1S09 she became a candidate for superintendent of public Instruction of Kentucky, and It was then generally gen-erally discussed over the state that she had first conceived the plan of celebrating Mother's day. It is still being discussed and proudly boasted by officials and citizens citi-zens alike here, who argue that: Miss Annie Jarvls of Philadelphia has oeen given the credit of originating originat-ing the Idea of setting aside a day for the purpose. Miss Jarvls Is entitled en-titled to great credit In connection with the national celebration of the day, but the Idea of Mother's day was conceived long before the time credited cred-ited to ber. It was first thought of here. In Henderson, by Miss Sasseen and celebrated In the schools here long before the date the sponsors of the movement claim It originated." In l!)07 Miss Jarvls Invited a friend to spend the second Sunday In May with her, to commemorate the day of her mother's death. On that day Miss Jarvls announced her plan for a national na-tional observance of "Mother's day." Mary Towles Sasseen married Judge Marshall Wilson of Florida, and gave her life to the cause of motherhood when her first child was born. The movement to bestow credit to her for the origin of the Idea bos merited the Indorsement of many Kentucky organizations. This movement move-ment they say, would not detract from the Impetus that Miss Jarvls gave It, and there Is plenty of honor for both her and Mary Towles Sasseen Sas-seen Wilson. |