Origins of Mother's Day
I found an interesting article in the Washington Post today about a woman's quest for the origins of Mother's day. Apparently Anna Jarvis, from West Virginia, is credited with starting a movement to create the holiday a couple of years after her mother's death. Anna succeded and the special day for mothers was created in 1914. The interesting part of the Washington Post story says "Her's the sad thing about Anna Jarvis: Mother's Day was her only baby. And in the end, she was so put off by its success (i.e. commercialization) that she started a petition to rescind it and was promptly popped into an institution, where she died, alone, in 1948." What a sad story...it almost makes me feel guilty for celebrating it. Here's Anna Jarvis' obituary from the New York Times.
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