Arizona republican., 1910-05-02
NEXT SUNDAY WILL BE I|! "IM0IHERs E! DAY.
And Next saturday Win Bt the Al tending Sale of Buttons
 and Valentines.

Attention is again called to the an nual celebration of Mothers Day next Sunday. May s. and the char itable undertaking of the preceding day to enlist interest in the event and to make it also serve a practical as well as a sentimental purpose. Next Sunday it is expected the min isters of the city will speak on Mothers Day" or some topic es- pecially appropriate to such an oc- will wear q white carnation in re- cognition of the anniversary, that being the official flower.
 The Saturday project will be the sale of lapel buttons and valentines appropriate for sending to mother your own or anybody else's-for ten cents each. One may buy as many as he pleases but it is expected that everybody will want to buy at least one. and the proceeds above the cost and expenses. will be turned over to the Associated Charities. There can be no more worthy object of the col lection and the fact that the money is being raised this way. will give publicity to the anniversary the fol-
 lowing day. the chief ceremony of which consists in simply "remem bering mother
 The buttons and valentines will be sold by children who volunteer for the work and on Friday the ladies who are managing the vent which
 will be under the auspices of the
 Arizona congress of mothers. will be
 at the store of Elvey & Hulett, to
 meet the children and give out the button bags and valentines.
 Mothers Day was originated by
 Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia and has nothing to do with the rais-
 ing of money through the sale of
 buttons and valentines. That Is merely an attending feature, seized
 upon in certain places to give pub
 licity to the event and to be the
 means also of some other good work.
 It has been found a very practical suggestion in many places. including Los Angeles. whose methods have
 been used as a pattern for the Phoe-
 nix project. Explanatory thereof arc
 published the following excerpts from letter to Mrs. Emory Rays. presi-
 dent of the Arizona Mothers con
 
 has been q leading figure in the celebration of Mothers day in that city.
 Miss Jarvis has no organization that I know of There was none last year but when she asked me to advise her and to give. her my plans for 1910, I suggested an organi- zation to her. Whether she adopted my suggestion l do not know. I have recently lost my own dear mother and am not in a position to do active work. but this year 1 am quietly do ing what I can to benefit the patient sclf-sacrificing mother. and it was this work that l went into when II originated the mothers fund, created the three days of the mothers festi val prior to mothers day. It was my desire to make mothers day more memorable that made me take this time to do the practical work of benefiting mothers.
 Tt was due to my plans for rais ing the fund and giving the people local interest to work for. that I aroused so much enthusiasm in the day. I will he glad if you will see that the day and fund are not con founded as one movement as neither Miss Jarvis nor myself wish that. plea to help needy mothers will bring forth a tremendous response. etc.
 In the Phoenix undertaking. instead of a mothers fund.-. the Associated Charities has been substituted as worthy organization. already doing d notable work and in constant need of funds to carry it on.