The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-10
MOTHERS DAY
ON MAY 9Th.
The Second Sunday Of the Month Of
Flowers Should be Set Aside
For the Mothers Of
the Country.
a UNIVERSAL HOLIDAY
s8tt is Growing MarvelousIy IN Popular
ity and viii Some Time Be-
come Most important
Occasion.

To Miss Anna Jarvis, Of Philadel-
mia, belongs the credit of originating
Mothers Day, which will be the Sec
ond Sunday in May The idea to have
one day in the year set apart especi-
ally in honor of the mothers is a
novel one and it is proving very popu-
lar and promises to circle the globe. 1t
nigh. be suggested that every day in
the year ought to be mothers day.
But there are SO many who are so
busy. SO selfish, so thoughtless, that it
will be perhaps sufficient II for one
day of the year they devote their
thought and turn their minds and their
hearts to the best mother of all. In all
likelihood the day will be observed by
many in Keokuk this year.
General Idea.
A circular which has been sent out
by Miss Jarvis in the interests of
Mothers Day says the general idea
OF Mothers Day is:
"a simultaneous observance In ev-
cry part of the world of the love and
reverence which all men and women
owe to their mothers.
Mothers Day is the one holiday
81 the whole world can observe as one
nation A noble mother is the one
deity the whole world can worship in
unison.
Noble motherhood belongs to every
creed, cline country and class.
Mothers Day will give to the best
and to the worst of us one holy day
in the year If we have NO other in our
lives
"The wearing of the white Mothers
Day flower will make heart speak to
heart throughout the world 1t will
light the fame of brotherhood in the
heart of stranger and foe, for in Moth
er Love the hearts of the universe are
fashioned alike
The heart that has lost its song,
the friendless, weary and hopeless
soul, as well as those on whom fortune
smiles, will feel the thrill of a new
life through the memory OF the mother
live which Mothers Day will recall
The prisoner, the outcast. the shut
In. the aged, the sick in home and hos
pital, all, through the message of
brotherhood the white Mothers Day
flower bears, will bless the day.
Special Object Of Mothers Day.
ITO recall the memories of the
mothers that are gone and through
loving words and loving care to bright
en- the lives of the mothers that re-
main and to help the children to a
greater blessing in honoring their
fathc- and mother.
To call back mothers prayers.
mothers dying words, and the prom
ises made to mother by the big boy
that still mourns her, and to stop to
think little of what she was in her
life to her family.
Others who are blessed with their
good mother still near them may show
their appreciation by some deed Of
gratitude and love- If away from
Pome write her love letter, send a
telegram use the long distance phone
OF special delivery of post Office
Who Shall Observe the Day?
Every man, woman and child in the
Town, or the region roundabout it.
nave a special home service, bringing
IN everybody in the neighborhood to
sing the old songs and to recall the
"reminiscences that relate to mother.
ana II she be living. make her feel
sae is Queen of the May in the hearts
OF her children.
churches of all creeds, Sunday
sciioois. Z M. G. AS, lodges, societies,