Ah Mother’s Day! Proclaimed for national observance on May 8, 1914 by United States President Woodrow Wilson Mother’s Day evolved to a holiday to be celebrated annually on the second Sunday in May.
What was begun by Julia Ward Howe as a call to mother’s to work for the peace their son’s had fought for in the Civil War was carried on by Anna M. Jarvis to create a national holiday for mother’s everywhere.
Today Mother’s Day is big business but let us turn again to the women who make this day so special…
“The mother’s heart is the child’s first school-room…
To the mother belongs the privilege of planting in the hearts of her children those seeds of love, which, nurtured and fostered, will bear the fruit of earnest and useful lives. It is she who must fit them to meet the duties and emergencies of life, and in this work of training she keeps her heart fresh and young, and thereby insures the growth of those powers with which nature has endowed her.”
~The Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society
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“A mother’s love –how sweet the name!
What is a mother’s love?
A noble, pure, and tender flame,
Enkindled from above,
To bless a heart of earthly mold;
The warmest love that can grow cold:–
This is a mother’s love.”
~J Montgomery
When Queens Ride By, a short story by Agnes Slight Turnbull, is a touching short vintage story of what can happen when a woman takes a moment to add a bit of beauty to her life.
