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Show MOTHERS' DAY. Today is Mothers' Day throughout this Republic, and the wearing of n white carnation is evidence that tho wearer acknowledges anil respects tho day for its significance in this respect. The sentiment for Mothers' Day is uni-vciiiil. uni-vciiiil. and doop-scatcd. Doubtless, whon tho imilhcrs get in fuller control than they are now, they will establish a .Fathers ' Day also. But that is for the future, and wo are concerned now with the observance of today as Mothers' Moth-ers' Day. This observance is new, has no special spe-cial programme, there has been provided pro-vided for it no precise exercises or ceremonies. cere-monies. These will doubtless come in time, however; a central form of observance, ob-servance, around which special and various va-rious ceremonies may attach, and we shall have a ceremonial of observance similar from shore to shore, and put into effect everywhere. It is well thus to observe tho honor of motherhood, and the dignity of woman in this high respect. It is well for the Nation to show on one day respect re-spect for the motherhood of tho race, and to honor that motherhood by appropriate ap-propriate signs and ceremonies. If motherhood could take a rest for this special day, and givo itself up entirely to the enjoyment of the celebration in its honor, there would bo added compensation com-pensation in the' remembrances of the day. To a very large extent, however, this is impossible., becauso the very motherhood that is celebrated imposes obligations this day as well as other days. It is mothers' day, as a matter of fact, throughout the world every day in the year, and it is well for tho human hu-man race that it is so, and that motherhood mother-hood is so faithful as to bo oblivious of days and dales, concerning itself wholly with tho needs of tho office of motherhood, and joyously undertaking the (asks and trials attaching thereto. Every clay is mothers' day, but today to-day is lho day of special observance of I hat great and universal fact of motherhood. Its observations will doubtless doubt-less more and more come into use. and be made more prominent, as the years go by. Today wo begin an annual ob scrvance which will onduro as long as the Republic; that is to say, and as we all fondly hope, for ever. But we speak now for today, and tho observance should at once be universal, hearty, and happy. |