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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
LTHOUGH the official observ-
ance of the second Sunday
in May as Mother's day Is
regarded as a modern cus-
tom, it is in reality a re-
vival of one of the oldest
feasts celebrated by man-
kind. For the gifts of flow-
ers, candy and the like
which we send om Moth-
er's day correspond to the ancient
simnel cake, a feature of “Mothering
day” of the early Britons. On Mother
ing day all young persons away from
home visited their parents, taking
along gifts of sweet confections of
honey in the form of simnel cakes,
Still farther back in antiquity the
people of Asia Minor held a feast
early In May to worship Rhea, “the
Great Mother of the Gods,” and this
feast later became the feast of Hi-
laria, an annual event on the Ides of
March in Greece and Rome.
Just how much these ancient rites
contributed to the modern celebration
of Mother's day it is impossible te
say, for there is some dispute as te
the origin of the idea which resulted
finally in setting aside the second
Sunday of May for honoring the moth-
ers of the nation. No less tham four
cities In as many different states
claim that honor fer one of their eiti-
zens. Up in Albion, N. Y. they will
tell you that it originated there and
offer the following facts in support of
that statement:
George M. Pullman dedicated a
home on the St. Lawrence river to
“Father and Mether.” This was
opened for a large family reunion in
August, 1888, In 1804 a church was
built by Mr. Pullman in Albion, in
memory of his parents, He put a great
deal of thought, sentiment and time
inte both bulldings—the home and the
church,
These two things and the mammer
fn which the work was done made
such an Impression upon the people
at Albion that at the first anniversary
of the mother's passing on it was de-
cided to call the Sunday nearest that
date “Mother's day,” and they voted
that hereafter, In that church, it
should be an annual event.
No one at that time had any
thought of how far-reaching this ob-
servance would become, or that it
would so appeal to all levers of moth-
ers as the yearly eelebration has now
shown.
Down in Henderson, Ky. they claim
the honor for Mary Towles Sasseen
Wilson. Born and reared in this little
city, on the south bank of the Ohio
river, In the 60s, she labored earnest-
ly to have April 20, her mother's na-
tal day, observed in the schools in
the manner in which the day is now
celebrated.
In 1588 Misa Sasseen, then a school
teacher, published a book setting
forth her ideas, aims and objects, ded-
feating the volume to her mother, with
a hope for national recognition.
She traveled extensively and ad-
dressed various educational meetings
throughout the country in her effort
to have the day observed In the
schools. It was in the little Center
street school of Henderson that the
first observance of Mother's day was
held by Miss Sasseen, and in 1804 she
succeeded in having it celebrated in
the public schools of Springfield, Ohlo.
In 1899 she became a candidate for
superintendent of public instruction
of Kentucky, and it was then general-
ly discussed over the state that she
had first conceived the plan of cele
brating Mother's day.
Mary Towles Sasseen married Judge
Marshall Wilson of Florida, and gave
her life to the cause of motherhood
when her first child was born.
Still another claimant to the honor
is Indianapolis, Ind, which comes
forth with a citizen who, It says, Is
he “father of Mother's day.” Recent-
ly Representative Louis Ludlow of
Indiana in a speech on “The Origin of
Mother's Day” put forward the Indi-
anapolis citizen's claim to the honor.
His speech, as reported In the Con-
gressional Record, follows:
Mr. Speaker, one of the most
blessed of all anniversaries is
Mother's day. The very name of
this anniversary makes a thou-
sand bells to tinkle in our recol-
lection. It sends us back to first
principles and revives all of the
hallowed memories of childhood.
It brings before the vision of ev-
ery sme of us the sweetest face
we have ever known; we see her
smiles and tears and once more
hear her sing her lullabies. It
makes our hearts throb and our
voices choke as we recall the un-
fathomable devotion of “mother,”
how she toiled and suffered and
the privations she endured that we
might be fed and clothed and
trained to do the part of honest
and upright citizens in the varied
activities of life.
It is to me a source of special
pride that the city which I have
the honor to.represent in the con-
gress of the United States was
the birthplace of Mother's day.
A silver-tongued orator of Indiana
-Frank E. Hering—first coined
the sacred phrase which is now
recurrentiy heard around the
world, The Order of Eagles, of
which he has long been an out-
standing leader, took up the slo-
gan; and giving expression to the
mother love that is in the hearts
of all of us, it has striven worth-
lly and accomplished a great deal
toward throwing the encircling
arms of and protection
around the poor and aged mothers
of the land.
A most interesting account of
the origin of Mother's day is con-
tained in an editorial that ap-
peared In the Indianapolis Times
on February 7, 1030. Mr. Boyd
Gurley, the author of the editori-
al, is a patriotic and brilliant
newspaper man who in 1028 was
awarded the Pulitzer gold-medal
prize in competition with all of
the editors of America for the
distinguished
rendered by the newspaper pro
fession during that year. The edi-
torial in the Indianapolis Times
is as follows:
love
most public service
A REAL ANNIVERSARY
This city has many anniversaries
which it celebrates in pride and
thankfulness, the birthdays of
those who served the nation and
humanity well, of soldiers and of
statesmen who won glory and
gratitude, of poets who wrote
songs that are immortal, authors
whose messages remain for the
ages
Today is a different sort of an-
niversary It is the birthday anni.
versary of an idea which became an
impulse; an impulse that became a
great movement,
On the evening of February 1.
1204, the English Opera House was
crowded. Those who assembled be-
longed to the lodge of Eagles
The speaker was & young profes.
sor from Notre Dame, notable chief-
iy as being the first Protestant to
hold such a position in that uni.
versity. Otto de Luse had found
him at South Bend and been im-
pressed by his oratorical charm.
He did not suspect that the event
was to make history.
it was on that night that Frank
E. Hering, in a burst of cratory,
traced all the goodness of men to
mother love, all the advancement
of civilization to the sacrifices of
motherhood, all the hopes of the
future to the Influence of mothers
He urged that If every Eagles’
ledge one day be set aside each
year in which men would remem-
ber their mothers, and in that mem-
ory lift themselves from sordid
thought to higher planes of ac-
tion,
The idea caught and held atten
tion. It was an appeal to some-
thing fundamental It tapped the
wells ofall inspiration.
S80 it happened that In many
Eagles’ lodges, long before Moth.
er's day became a national insti-
tution, programs each year were
held to honor the mothers of men.
The idea that found expression in
the English theater had become a
movement,
When, a few years ago, the Amer.
ican War Mothers became interest.
ed in tracing the origin of this na-
tional anniversary they searched
the records. Others claimed recog
nition to this honor, But the War
Mothers, one of the few bodies
chartered by congress, decided that
Frank E. Hering was the real “fa-
ther of Mother's Day.”
Last fall they sent a committee
to his home in South Bend to pin
upon his breast their medal of
honor, awarded to but three others,
ali from military life, His is the
only award to a civilian,
An tdea once started does not dle.
It grows. Out of it, almost as a
corollary, came the national eru-
sade that has resulted in such laws
in several states, and seems fated
to become a law sooner or later in
all states,
Without Mother's day, and the
sentiment it brings to the surface
in men's hearts, the old-age pension
movement might never have ap-
peared,
From that same Mother's day
there can be predicted other move.
ments that will seek to soften the
burden of sacrifice; that will re.
move the menace of heartbreak and
woe; that will rob motherhood of
INTERNATIONAL. Fae
much of its sorrow and leave I(t
only its glory.
It is well to remember anniver-
saries, especially of imperishable
ideas. It is also well for Indianap-
olis to remember in pride that with
her other contributions to progress
and civilization it furnished the
birthplace for a great Idea from
which has come better things for
all
The fourth city which
honor of having given to the nation
this red-letter day on its calendar is
Philadelphia. The Quaker city points
out that the movement, result.
ed In congress passing a" joint resolg.
tion authorizing a Mother's day and
in President Wilson Issuing a spe
cial proclamation designating a Sun-
day In May as the date, thus giving
the observance the official sanction of
of the
there In
claims
which
the government United States,
was started 1908 by one of
its daughters, Miss Anna Jarvis,
Miss mother,
1007, had been active In
the church and i
small town In Virginia. On the anni
versary of her death the pastor asked
the arrange for a
cial church where
mother leading spirit, In
complying the request she be
Jarvis’ who died in
the work of
Sunday school of a
daughter to spe
service in the her
had been a
with
growing Iack of
of absent
gan to realize the
tender consideration
moth
ers on the part
left the heme roof and
inte the world, each with a
Interest,
Miss Jarvis talked the matter over
with a friend,
to have
strayed ou
diff eres
iis ni
saying she would lke
me day of the year set aside
especial dedicated to the “best lit
tie mother in the
this
had become
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world Ihirough the
influence of frierd and others
inierested, the first
wus held Mas
tn fa t
in Phi adelph a,
services In all
who
ohservance of the day
10, 1008, with special
the Sunday schools
the city.
So popular was the idea with the
Miss
more interested
spread publicity of the
wrote letters or interviewed people in
people that became even
a wide
event. She
all walks of life for a proper ohservy-
ance of the day. By the time another
anniversary had around many
individuals and organizations observed
the second Sunday in May with appro
priate ceremonies “in honor of the
best mother who ever lived" As a
result not only the entire nation, hut
many foreign countries,
day with appropriate ceremonies.
Pennsylvania was the first to make
it a state holiday. This was in 1013
In the same year the mayor of Bos
come
observe this
picnic in a park, when all mothers
and their children were given a big
dinner by the business men of the
city. The object was “to give a day
of rest and recreation to mothers who
have not had a summer vacation
away from the city, and who get few
opportunities to do so”
On May 10, 1013, a resolution passed
by the senate and house of repre
sentatives to make the second Sun-
day in May a national holiday, “dedi.
cated to the memory of the best moth-
er in the world, your mother.” Presi.
dent Wilson was authorized snd re
quested to issue a proclamation to
display United States flags on all gov.
ernment buildings In celebration of
the day. It is said that when Presi.
dent Wilson signed the proclamation,
he turned to William Jennings Bryan,
his secretary of state, and sald:
“Bryan, that's the finest thing this
congress has done. God bless the
mothers."
Each year the idea grew more and
more popular, until in a few years
there was scarcely a small charch
or an organization throughout the
land that did not make some observ.
ance of the day. And then came the
World war, and It was during this
time that the day was more univers.
ally observed than at any previous
time. Boys in France were requested
to write their mothers on that day,
and so great was the response that
shipload after shipload of letters
landed at the port of New York to
be distributed all over the nation to
mothers whose song had “gone
across.”
At the beginning the slogan adopted
was, as it still is, “In honor of the
best mother who ever lived,” and the
badge was then the white carnation.
It is said that this flower was chosen
because it was the favorite flower of
a President, famous for his devotion
to his mother—Willlam McKinley,
who habitually wore a white carna-
tion In her honor,
States Awake to Needs
of Beauty on Highway
In the past
new
quarter of a century
roads have destroyed the beauty
All at-
ity, anil
v8 have
of picturesque countrysides.
tention has been given to utllit
While highwa
forests and open country
available to they
probably any-
thing else to
of the
pass,
none to beauty.
made the
millions of people,
than
netions
they
of the
road bullders come the outdoor adver.
with their
have done more
destroy the a
country
And close on the heels
through which
companies hideous
In the next 25
struction doubtless
rapid rate, but
highway con-
will continue at a
in all probability spe-
years
A highway commission will
no longer be allowed to cut through
section of country and
travelers defaced with scars
The problem has
taken up in a number
of the states, New Jersey plans to
replace each tree removed in widening
its roads with two new trees, Con-
necticut has undertaken to plant
woodbine and honey-
suckle vines over newly graded slopes.
Massachusetts is credited with having
set out 60.000 trees along its
highways. Michigan and Indiana
plant evergreens along thelr road-
ways, and a similar practice has been
adopted in California.—Washi
Post,
state
Proper City Planning
Seen as “Good Business”
More than
city-planning and
according to fig-
the
have commissions
zoning regulations,
ures published in American Arch.
tect,
The rapid growth of
ning
start at the beginning of the present
century, is due to the
and property owner's realization of
the fact that money put into well-kept
and beautiful
extravagance bul
architecture
the city-plan-
movement, which got its real
business
parks, pleasant streets
buildings is not an
an investment, the
azine ohserves,
“Even the intelligent remodeling of
a single house may standard
of an neighborhood,” it
pointing out that the difference be
d unprofitable rental
properiy
4 en
Biirac-
raise the
entire
tween profitable an
of either hu business
ne or
is often dependent upon the
tiveness of its
as the fea
is not unlike the first
The
The new home
watch possessed by a small boy.
witch is probably of the one-dollar
riety, bought by some thoughtful uncle
or father with the thought
within a few days. But the mental ef
fect of that watch upon the boy is bot
in ratio with its intrinsic value.
now he is an
hag become somebody,
How much more
ship mean to the average
boy! He is somebody in his commu-
this home of his own,
ed shout the new
begins to take an interest in
civic matters, The new home
It has made him a
better citizen In
which he lives. It is a mark of thrift.
- Washington Post,
Community Advertising
Industry and commerce ceased long
ago to ask if advertising pays. The
of com-
other
of chambers
trade and
whatever size
merce, boards of
value of public advertising is
equally demonstrable, It Is helpful,
no matter how haphazardly or incom-
When put upon a
sound, thoroughly businesslike basis,
city is advertised as inten-
sively as a commodity reaching out
Alive to Benefit of Trees
In the last three years 350,000 trees
The
three previous
years combined. Boys and girls un-
der sixteen were allowed 200 trees,
and those between sixteen and twenty.
one were given 500 trees,
This number of trees would plant
a solid block of 400 acres, and if prop.
erly cared for, would yield 15,000,000
board feet of white pine lumber in 50
years,
Grounds Important
Even though your house be similar
to others in its architectural details,
your grounds can express your Indi.
viduality, This Is only one of the
many possibilities which properly ar-
ranged plants present.
Truly, it is not a home until it is
planted.
Show City’s Stability
The number of resident house own
ers Is a reliable Index to a city's sta
bility.
Baby ille and ailments seem
twice as serious at night. A sud-
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sudden attack of diarrhea—a con-
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Have you a bottle of Castoria
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nothing that acts quite the same,
or has quite the same comforting
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For the protection of your wee
one—for your own peace of mind
=keep this old, reliable prepara-
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“Reynard” designating the fox, as
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word for a fox, taken from a
celebrated medieval animal
tloman de mrd or Rey-
are
allegory
called the
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proper were
given to euch beast,
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think she is grow-
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