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'''Mother's Day''' is a day for celebrating motherhood and thanking mothers. Mothers often receive gifts on this day, and it is a busy time of year for mail in many countries. In 1973, the U.S. Postal Service was held up for eight days because of the number of letters and cards. Mother's Day falls on various days of the year in different countries because it has a number of different origins. One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship - which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea (mythology) Rhea, the wife of Cronus - was held on March 15 to March 18 around AnatoliaAsia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world from there.Julia Ward Howe wrote the chiff.com - original Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870, as a call for peace and disarmament. ExcerptFrom the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
''Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
''The sword of murder is not the balance of !justice."
''Bloo d? does not wipe our dishonor,
''Nor violence indicate possession.
''As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
''Let women now leave all that may be left of home
''For a great and earnest day of counsel.
''Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
''Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
''Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Julia Ward Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who had attempted starting in 1858 to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.Anna Jarvis' daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, would of course have known of her mother's work, and the work of Julia Ward Howe. Much later, when her mother died, this second Anna Jarvis started her own crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in West Virginia in 1907 in the church where the elder Anna Jarvis had taught Sunday School. And from there the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. Finally the holiday was declared officially by states beginning in 1912, and in 1914 the President, Woodrow Wilson, declared the first national Mother's Day.Mothering Sunday in the United Kingdom falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (typically March or early April). It has been celebrated for hundreds of years, though the exact origin is uncertain. Tradition has it that young apprentices were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.In most countries, Mother's Day is a new concept copied from western civilisation. In many AfricaAfrican countries, Mother's Day has its origins in copying the British concept. In most of East Asia, Mother's Day is a heavily marketed and commercialised concept copied straight from Mother's day (USA)Mother's Day in the USA.
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See also - Father's Day Mothering Sunday International Women's Day
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