Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-06
MOTHERS DAY SUNDAY


 May has been designated as Mothers Day, and men everywhere are asked to observe it in honor of their own mothers and out of respect to the splendid motherhood of the race.
 It is pretty idea and the day should be ob- served Those who have arranged it provide the following program of observation:
 Wear a white carnation.
 If you are at home and your mother
 lives, make gift of love to her.
 If you are not at home, write her let
 ter and send her some token of remem-
 brance.
 If your mother be not living, wear the
 white flower and if possible place one on
 her grave as token of love and fidelity.
 Live the day as your mother would have
 you.
 Keep in mind your mother and her many
 kindnesses, her many sacrifices, her un-
 bounded love that never failed
 Display the flag in honor of the patriotic
 mothers of the country-especlally the
 mothers whose sons died that this country might live and it's honor remain unsmirched.
 These all are very pretty things to do, and il is well that day is to be set apart to do them in
 Most of them, however, are things you ought to do great many times oftener than one day a year. If your mother is living, cherish her; not on Mothers day alone, but every day. Did you ever, in all your life, know day when you ap piled to your mother for love- sympathy and help, and you were repulsed because it was not Son $ Day or Daughters Day? Indeed, you never knew such day. Every day was your day with your mother; every day is your day with her now. Never in all the world no matter how much love and honor and success may hear upon you, will you ever possess again so priceless, so precious and so beautiful a thing as your mother's love. There is in all the world no love like it. There is no other love ir the world worthy of being named in the same breath
 Your mother had no joy that was not her chil- dren's joy; she had no greater pleasure in life than that in which gave pleasure to her child ren. There was nothing in life that she would not sacrifice for your welfare, and in such a case no sacrifice was other than joy to her.
 Knowing your unworthiness of such love won't Mothers Day set you thinking how you have repaid your mother for it?
 By all means, let Mothers day become an established custom If you have fallen out of the habit of writing home to mother, because you cannot, over the miles of distance that sep arate you, see the pain your neglect gives her fall into it again on Mothers day, and keep in it.
 But don't let Mothers day and mother get like Christmas and the poor
 You know that around Christmas time every body's heart expands in thought for others and turkeys and cranberry sauce pour in upon the poor in avalanches from folks who never give the poor thought during the other fifty one weeks of the year. Yet, the poor must eat whether it is Christmas or not; and turkeys will not keep the year around. It is well to heed the bitter cry of the poor at Christmas time; but what about the poor the rest of the year?
 It is wel too, to heed the hunger of mother love on Mothers day; but what about mother the other 364 days of the year?
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