Show MOTHERS DAY rj to those ajio can read the handwriting oa OR the ther wall it looks as if tho the long neglected mothers of this country aro tire going to receive a little more attention we have long cre erected public m to our great men but have seldom dropped even a flower on the resting place of the tile noble mothers who raised the gifted men and to whom most of the credit for the greatness belongs in many states do ae pendent mothers with children are given a vi pension an the 1 inauguration i of bf mothers day has har set act all to thinking more of the debt we ive owe the noble mothers of ou aurland our land on may 11 1912 mothers day was celebrated all over this broad land and wi will 11 ll hereafter be celebrated with as much regularity as its christmas to M miss 1 i ss anna jurvis jarvis of phil 11 nd elphin pa we are indebted for this thia day which is set apart for the purpose of at least thinking of our mothers A reporter recently called on miss jarvis to get gati z history of her life and what she said w will ill 1 certain certainly lv interest the readers of this department part ment 4 please sho she urged smiling an nn apology abad bad so much rather talk about mother mothers s about myself the flush of innate aaness finsness finy ness rose tose to the lines of her pale hair and ind hot her trusting eyes turned involuntarily to a portrait above the hearth lathat that is my mother said miss jarvis simply ashe she was mother of eleven children I 1 was her baby it is seven years since we lost her this was her sitting room these are her things I 1 ethe the big homelike home homo like room flooded with sunlight was crowded with possessions dea deep p chairs by tile the open fire luxuriant plants in the generous window garden a huge can toe toot jar of low tables and baskets t for unending needlework and books books books everywhere people think that the loss of a mother falls heaviest on children said miss jarvis gently but really it is only tho the grown daughters and sons who understand this lothers mothers lo thors day movement making the second sunday in may sacred to mothers mot liers kae has nothing behind it but my belief beliet of men and women as sons and daughters daug liters eventually it will create an all nations brotherhood that will stand for the protection of the mother and children the unmarried mother the mother who works the mother who is widowed for indeed tho the preservation of or tho the homo itself I 1 tho white carnation was chosen ns its the flower because it grows overy everywhere where and its whiteness symbolizes the tile purity of a inot mother bors s love its endurance her fia fidelity clity through nil all a ages and nil all centuries tho the world is indebted to motherhood for mother love is as old as iho tile world und and us its young as tho the young youngest eit born it is the greatest force for good on oil tins this earth even n bad fat fathers bers in influence is ea 80 discounted hy by a it good moth mothers erys that nine times in ten the children I 1 come out nil all right and most people had bad good mothers indeed most of us had the host beat mother that over ever lived I 1 0 ii 1 I contend that 11 mothers others day should bo be the greatest of all holidays because you cannot perpetuate anything without mothers Alot liers 11 very tenderly as one abo touches sacred things lings ti the if mother of mothers day dayt v brought from lier her desk packet after packet of letters they thoy come in hundreds she explained hero is one froma froina convict in honolulu where they celebrate mothers dabin prison ho he says that the memory service inspired I 1 i red him to write to the mother ho lie had forgotten tor for eighteen years tills this is from kentucky where a girl about to bo be married asked me to decorate rate her in mothers others grave with white carnations on oil lier her heddi wedding ng day mothers whose grown children bave bo be come careless mothers whose whoso hearts broke slowly waiting for the word that did not come have written me messages of blessing for mothers day t read his this if you you can it came camo from a woman in wyoming whoso only son a lad nt at college wrote homo home every evert week on the night of last mothers sunday thero have seven so far you know lie be wrote his mother a lovo love letter next day lie went boating and never returned tho letter followed a telegram to that stricken house a word of comfort and affection from beyond the grave the tile official recognition of mothers lothers Ni da day y lias has been wide and satisfactory forty state governors have became honorary vice presidents of tile association half of them baving issued mothers day proclamations col roosevelt president ox ex taft and ex pr esl i dent wilson have written that the they y consider it an lionor to serve on the advisory board and wherever who rever men have been concerned the operation cooperation co has been chivalrous comrades wrote the G A B R corn com mander l in i n chie chies to ills his soldiers aitho boys of GIL 61 owe their inspiration as defenders of their country to their In no others on her sunday wo we will march to church with the white badge of memory in our lapels carrying tile nation eions flag our association should have largest membership in the world world for everyone is a 0 son or daughter of the best mother who ever lived tho the mother of YOUR hear I 1 |