New Britain herald., 1925-05-02
THE OBSER YER ? Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People ?

Deming Is a man of few words, but once in a while he entertains ideas which arc not according to rules of order on running political ma chine.
 If the legislature had more men of independent idoas such as Dem- ing, the state of Connecticut would profit thereby.
 Governor John II. Trnmbull showed last week, when he laid aside large volume of business 10 express sympathy for the wife and family Of Henry Nowicki, that he was q man full Of the milk of hu- man kindness. It wasn't the gov crnor who talked with a Herald man. II was a servant Of the state expressing regret at losing one or his fellow servants, and personal friend. The governor did not have 10 take the time, but he did, and there are thousands of Polish- Americans as well as many others who appreciate his words of sym pathy.
 The governor knows the people Of New Britain; he knows that the Poles make good citizens, and he ympathized with them In the loss of a sterling leader
 Sunday, May 10. is this year desig- mated as Mothers Day. This will be the 12th year of official observa- ton, the second Sunday in May hay ling been set aside as Mothers Day by an act of congress signed in 1914 by Woodrow Wilson. In it provision was made for display of flags on public buildings, as well as the expression of individual tribute to motherhood.
 1 That the idea was a welcome one has been proved by the rapid growth of ceremonies in connection with the day. Church services on Moth CTS Day are now almost universally arranged with the day in mind, and other customs of the day are spring ing up. A white carnation is the &C., cepted flower te be worn in mem ory of ones mother. and the sending 10 mothers Of specially designed greeting cards noting the day is an' other simple method of expressing appreciation which has met witf approval.
 The actual origin of the move | I. I.1. tnI Mothers Day is not generally knowr hence seems worthy Of attention 1T view of the increasing observation of it. Investigation shows that Mis- Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia in 1907 made the first step toward Motheri Day when she asked that the churcf in the little Virginia town where her mother had been leading spiri hold 8. service in her memory. 4 little later the Philadelphia churche are found 10 have been general! observing one Sunday in May al
 Mothers Day. and the plan grew t' continuation in national legislation.
 Various English customs act as
 precedent for the idea of Mother
 Day. In the days when young mel
 and girls were bound out as appren
 tices or maids, the fourth Sunday Ii
 Lent was set aside as day whel
 they might return to. their parents
 Still earlier, the idea is found Il
 Rome when on the same fourt
 Sunday, gifts were annually brough 10 the Mother Church. Even tn
 pagans had their idealization c motherhood. expressed in the wor
 ship of a super goddess known a Rhea, the great mother of the god'
 Having just received your opera
 tors license, you set out to driN
 the family down to the Wampl and demonstrate your recently acquired ability. With oyerfrequer admonitions about careful drivinI , the others falter in and sit bolt uI :, right, clinging tenaciously to tf , sides in expectant surety that tf worst will occur. You, somewht f nervously but nevertheless proudl
 start the motor and then discoVf 7 that the reason the car wouldn't p was because you forgot to take 0 ] the emergency, Releasing this . haste, you jerk the car back into Il ) door post and crumple the re; - fender, drawing loud shrieks fro s the rear seat. This reassures yc
 SO negatively that you jam the shi n into reverse. step on the gas, ar c project the machine into the re; = wall Of the garage.
 You finally make good your Q |! cape from that unmentionable ga age and crawl slowly down u :, street, cursng the hall-playiT u youngsters who continually dash .' front of you and cause you to t' n' the brake uncertainty. Past the fir . traffic cup, who wins your lifelol n gratitude by sienallying, GO" A other one, and the blue-coated ficl