To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:14:03 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: remembering Mothers' day
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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It's the second Sunday in May, and that means it's Mother's Day. A woman
named Anna Jarvis was the person behind the official establishment of
Mother's Day. In 1912 West Virginia became the first state to adopt an
official Mother's Day, and in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson made it a
national holiday. Anna Jarvis became increasingly concerned over the
commercialization of Mother's Day. Nevertheless, Mother's Day has become
one of the best days of the year for florists. When Anna Jarvis lived the
last years of her life in nursing home without a penny to her name, her
bills were paid, unbeknownst to her, by the Florist's Exchange. In The
Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde wrote: "All women become like
their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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