{"id":9868,"date":"2018-05-11T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elfster.com\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2023-02-21T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:57:38","slug":"history-of-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elfster.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/history-of-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elfster celebrates giving and no one gives more than the sometimes under-appreciated awesome moms<\/a> everywhere. What better way to celebrate than to look back on the history of Mother\u2019s Day?<\/p>\n

Mother’s Day: The Beginnings<\/h4>\n
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On Mother’s Day, we honor the sacrifices a woman makes for her family. | Image courtesy Retro Kimmer<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our modern American Mother\u2019s Day had antecedents. The ancient Greeks and Romans held festivals honoring the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele. The most direct ancestor of the modern Mother\u2019s Day, however, is the early Christian festival called \u201cMothering Sunday.\u00a0This holiday dates back centuries to pre-Reformation days in Great Britain and much of the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren presented their mothers with flowers and other gifts to show their appreciation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mothering Sunday gradually became a more secular holiday on which children presented their mothers with flowers and other gifts to show their appreciation. The tradition gradually became less popular until revived by Constance Smith (1873 \u2013 1938) who was inspired by reading a newspaper article about Anna Jarvis\u2019 campaign in America. Unlike the American Mother\u2019s Day, which falls on the second Sunday of May, the British Mothering Day moves about. Why? Because it falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the period of Christian fasting that leads up to Easter. This year if fell on March 31.<\/p>\n

Leading up to Mother’s Day in the U.S.<\/h4>\n
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Vintage Mother’s Day greetings. | Image courtesy A Sort of Fairytale<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The precursor to the Mother\u2019s Day<\/a> celebration in the United States began before the Civil War though it didn\u2019t become a national holiday until over fifty years later. In the 1850s Mrs. Ann Marie Jarvis organized several \u201cMother\u2019s Day Work Clubs\u201d<\/a> in West Virginia. Her goal was to combat the poor sanitary and health conditions that contributed to the high mortality rate of children. (She lost eight of the twelve children she bore.)<\/p>\n

In 1868 Jarvis changed the name of the organization to \u201cMothers\u2019 Friendship Day\u201d and expanded it to include a large portion of the country still divided by the Civil War. Mothers met with former Confederate soldiers as well as those of the Union to encourage reconciliation.<\/p>\n

Julia Ward Howe<\/a>, abolitionist, women\u2019s rights activist, civil rights activist, songwriter and poet, also served as a proponent of celebrating mothers. In 1870 she wrote the \u201cMother\u2019s Day Proclamation\u201d in which she called women to act toward promoting world peace. She campaigned for observation of a \u201cMother\u2019s Peace Day\u201d to be celebrated every June 2.<\/p>\n

Other early day proponents of Mother\u2019s Day included temperance activist Juliet Calhoun Blakely of Albion, Michigan and the pair, Mary Towles Sasseen and Frank Hering. Hering has been called \u201cthe father of Mother\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anna Jarvis’ Fight to Make Mother’s Day Official in America<\/h4>\n
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The celebration of Mother\u2019s Day in the U.S. is attributed to Anna Jarvis. | Image courtesy Historical Society of Pennsylvania<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Following the death of her mother in 1905, Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, thought of Mother\u2019s Day as a way to honor the sacrifices mothers made for their children. A Philadelphia department store owner, John Wanamaker, financed her efforts to establish a Mother\u2019s Day holiday. The first celebration took place in a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia in May, 1908.<\/p>\n

The success of the first celebration encouraged Jarvis, who remained unmarried and childless for life, to have Mother\u2019s Day added as an official national holiday. Using the argument of bias toward male achievement in American holidays, she began a huge letter writing campaign to newspapers and prominent politicians pushing the adoption of a national holiday honoring motherhood.<\/p>\n

Jarvis formed the Mother\u2019s Day International Association to help promote the holiday. By 1912 she had encouraged many churches, towns and states to observe Mother\u2019s Day as an annual holiday. Finally, in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed an agreement to make the second Sunday in May observed as Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

Jarvis had looked upon Mother\u2019s Day as a celebration between mothers and families. She conceived of the day as one of visiting one\u2019s mother or attending church. She initiated the practice of wearing a white carnation as a symbol of the occasion. But soon after Mother\u2019s Day became a national holiday, greeting card companies, florists, confectioners and other merchants raced to commercialize it.<\/p>\n

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Mother’s Day breakfast in bed is always a treat! | Image courtesy Pexels<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By 1920, she began to denounce the commercialization as degrading her original plan and spoke out against people buying from the merchants taking advantage of the holiday. She originated vast numbers of lawsuits against companies and groups using the name \u201cMother\u2019s Day\u201d and lobbied the government to remove it from the American calendar. By the time she died in 1948 she had spent most of her personal wealth on legal fees.<\/p>\n

So this Mother\u2019s Day, let\u2019s remember that our moms don\u2019t expect expensive gifts. Most moms will treasure burnt toast and orange juice served in bed with a handwritten card and smiles.<\/p>\n

If you are looking for inspiration for your mom, visit our\u00a0<\/b>Mother\u2019s Day gift guides<\/b><\/a>. Or, post a picture of your Mom on <\/b>our Facebook page,<\/b><\/a>\u00a0on Twitter<\/b>\u00a0@Elfster<\/b><\/a>, and on Instagram<\/b>\u00a0@Elfster<\/b><\/a>. We can\u2019t wait to see your awesome mom!<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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