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The History of Mother’s Day in the U.S.
A
fter Anna Reeves Jarvis died, her daughter Anna M. Jarvis campaigned for the
creation of an official Mother’s Day in remembrance of her mother and in honor
of peace. In 1908, Anna petitioned the superintendent of the church where her
Mother had spent over 20 years teaching Sunday School. Her request was honored,
and on May 10, 1908, the first official Mother's Day celebration took place at An-
drew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia and a church in Philadelphia, Feeding Fido
Pennsylvania. The West Virginia event drew a congregation of 407 and Anna Jarvis
arranged for white carnations—her Mother’s favorite flower—to adorn the patrons.
Two carnations were given to every Mother in attendance. Today, white carnations
M
ost conventional pet-food brands
you find at the supermarket con-
are used to honor deceased Mothers, while pink or red carnations pay tribute to
sist of reconstituted animal by-products,
Mothers who are still alive. Andrew's Methodist Church exists to this day, and was
otherwise known as low-grade wastes
incorporated into the International Mother’s Day Shrine in 1962.
from the beef and poultry industries—
you know, inedibles you wouldn’t touch
US Government Adoption
In 1908 a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, Elmer Burkett, proposed making Moth-
with a ten-foot fork. When the label
er's Day a national holiday at the request of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
says chicken by products, for example,
tion (YMCA). The proposal was defeated, but by 1909 forty-six states were holding
it quite probably means ground up
Mother's Day services as well as parts of Canada and Mexico.
chicken beaks, intestines and feet are
Anna Jarvis quit working and devoted herself full time to the creation of Moth-
included.
er's Day, endlessly petitioning state governments, business leaders, women groups, And, if that’s not bad enough, the
churches and other institutions and organizations. She finally convinced the World's animals used to make many pet foods
Sunday School Association to back her, a key influence over state legislators and
are classified as “4-D,” which is just an-
congress. In 1912 West Virginia became the first state to officially recognize Moth-
other way of saying “Dead, Dying, Dis-
er's Day, and in 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed it into national observance, declar-
eased, or Down (Disabled)” when they
ing the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
line up at the slaughterhouse.
Unless that can of Chicken ‘N Liver
Source: Mother’s Day Central
Delite explicitly states that it contains
FDA-certified, food-grade meat, you
should know that its contents are con-
Xango:
sidered unfit for human consumption—
but apparently good enough for your cat
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