The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-03
MOTHERS DAY Is
BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY
That Should Be Celebrated
by Everybody.
By RUTH CAMERON.

Now boys; Just moment! YoI VI all had your say.
While cnioying yourselves in pleasant way.
We've toasted sweethe@rts. our friends, and our
wives;
We've toasted each othrr. wishing all merry lirs;
'Tis one in a million and outshines the rest;
Don't frown when tell you this toast beats all
But drink one more toast, boys a toast to Our
Mothers. "
One of my correspondents has asked
me TO tell something of the origin and
meaning of Mothers Day
Mothers Day was inaugurated by
the churches of Minneapolis during the
Chapman-Alexander evangelist cam
paign there.
1t was suggested by DR.. Henry A Ost-
rom, whose own mother had died about
a year before this time. and who felt
that the young people might be espe-
cially touched and the old people hon
ored and pleased by the observance OF
such day.
Mother Day" was celebrated first on
April II and is supposed to be celebrated
every year on the Sunday nearest to
that day. That would bring it Sunday.
April Is, this year. What effect the
fact that Easter comes on that day will
have. ! do not know.
The idea of the evangelists was to
have day especially devoted to mothers
Just as 'Children'S Day is devoted TO
the children. On this day in the
churches which celebrate it a sermon
is preached especially for mothers, and
great efforts are made by special invi-
tation and the use of carriages and
automobiles 10 bring out the older
women who would not otherwise get
there.
The flower dedicated to this day is
the white pink. The churches are deco
rated with them. Sprays of white pinks
are sent TO the sick and shut-in mothers
and the younger people are all supposed
to wear d white pink in memory of or
respect for their mothers.
Don't YOU think it is a beautiful idea
7 do My only wonder is that no one
thought OF it before.
Mothers Day is primarily church
holiday, but please don't let that pre-
Vent. those of you who are not affiliated
with any church from feeling that it is
up to you to help celebrate it.
If You still have your mother right in
the home with you, why not make April
is day Of special kindness and
thoughtfuiness for her, a day when YOU
GO not say single cross or impatient
word. day when you give some IN
expected. caress that will mean so much
10 her. and say some Unexpectedly ten
der thing about what a very wonderful
mother you happen TO have
If you are separated from your mother
why not make April IS a day to sur
prise her by bridging the distance be-
tween YOU. If it is possible.
And if that is not possible. vcaI can
at least write an unusually tender and
loving letter that shall send a glad thrill
of sweet surprise to her heart when
she receives it.
Some. 1 know. are reading this and
thinking, "Ah, if | only could do some
OF these things. But my mother'-and
then the eyes fiji with tears of aching
memory, and the heart-no matter how
hlarueless-accuses itself, If l had only
been kinder
Dear people, Mothers Day must he
sad day for YOU, of course. but why
not sWeeten the sadness by reading OUT
motherS Bible, going to your mothers
church, and by performing your loving
kindness to some other mother. some
body's mother" lonely for a lost SON
or daughter as You for your lost one
In this way there shall be three made
happie--the lonely mother. yourself
ann-yes, l believe 1.-THE little mother
IN heaven who will be surely smiling
down in approval
Remember all April e. 1911. Mothers
Day"