The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-14
OBSERVE TODAY
AS MOTHERS DAY
This is the Day Set Apart Through
out the World for Tributes
to the Greatest Of
Women.
OF FLOWERS
Observance This Year viii BE More
Widespread Than Ever and
Covers All
Countries.

GGate City Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, May 13-As the re-
suit of work of little more than two
years by the National Congress OF
Mothers, there will be celebrated to-
morrow from France to the FIJI Is
lands, Mothers day, to be devoted
to tributes to the worth and work of
the mothers Of the world.
The celebration this year will be
i more widespread than ever before,
| the governors of nearly all the states
of the union having issued proclama
| tions calling for the observance OF
the day.
Mrs. Frederic Schoff, of Philadel-
phia, president of the National Con-
gress of Mothers, has prepared the
following statement for the United
Press:
[By Mrs. Frederic Schoff, President
National Congress of Mothers.l
For the special celebration of
Mothers Day it has been urged for
that one day we honor our mothers
4 by loving thought and by wearing a
flower as a token, and that absent
children give loving greetings to the
4 one who shielded and guarded the
4 years of infancy and childhood Only
as one becomes mother herself is
. it possible to appreciate fully all
!, that motherhood means. Surely the
crowning honor of womanhood is the
, fact that God has committed the
continuance of the race. its nurture
and care, to woman The highest de-
velopment of woman comes through
motherhood. with all its lessons.
Thousands of men and women can
: bear testimony TO the unselfish love.
} the self-sacrifice and devotion that
mothers have given to their children
They revere and honor the mothers
who have done so much for them. 1T
is easy to wear flower, to think
: for day and then to forget The
deepest honoring of ones mother is
to carry into life an appreciation OF
all that motherhood means to the
world; that will help every mother TO
: realize the glory and greatness OF
motherhood Motherhood is a ladder
which rests on earth but which
reaches to heaven and the angels of
! God thereby Mothers there are to-
day whose eyes are closed to the
glorious possibilities God has put in-
to their hands. The message the
mothers congress would send out for
mothers day would be.
Honor the mother you love by
|, showing to little children the love
she has given to you.
Ii all mothers were loving and
wise and sympathetic, if all moth
ers understood how to bring out the
best that is in the children. most of
lifes problems would be solved The
clear-sighted mother of today knows
, that to be mother in the highest
sense of the term, she must have an
insight into the physical, mental and
moral development of childhood an I
must know and supply favorable in
fluences and conditions.
1 While babies are dying because
!. there is no way for mo- alers TO learn
, how to save their lives, good way
/ 10 HOnOT lHOtueF is W Aelp luosS
q who are trying to give this helpful
knowledge to mothers While little
i childrens lives are blighted because
a their parents have died and they
9 are starving for mother love, good
n way to honor mother is to take one
n of these little ones and mother him
o While little children are subjected
g to arrest and the antiquated correc
J., tional methods of an era that is pas.
Il there is opportunity to honor ones
n mother by working for such methods
as will guide the erring little ones
into true ideals of life. While moth
ers everywhere eager and anxious tC
do the best for their children, yet
not sure how to do it, are cravinz
help, there is an opportunity to hon
or mother by making it possible fol
the mothers congress to give th'
worlds best thought on child nuture
Founder is Unmarried
PHILADELPHIA, May 18th,
founder of mothers day is herself al
unmarried woman. She is Miss Ann,
E, Jarvis, of 2031 North Twelfth ST
Philadelphia In describing the move
4 ment Miss Jarvis said tonight: