How Mother's Day became an American holiday on the second Sunday of May.
As we all know that Mother's Day is honoring mothers on the second Sunday of May, we might not know the whole story of it.
It all started with Anna Jarvis in 1908, it was her who created Mother's Day to be on the second Sunday of May. When her mother died 1905, she thought that Mother's Day shall be a day to remember the works that the mothers have done. John Wanamaker a business owner also helped her to make Mother's Day an official holiday, but the first celebration was in May 1908, where Anna Jarvis hosted the celebration in a Methodist church in West Virginia. But it wasn't until 1914, when it became an official American holiday. However, this is very weird. When Mother's Day became an official American holiday, by 1920, Jarvis tries to take the holiday off of the American holiday, but was unsuccessful. She urged people to stop buying Mother's Day stuff, sued businesses that even used the words Mother's Day, and was even at government areas to see them take Mother's Day off the calendar. The government had never taken that holiday away and that now Mother's Day is widely celebrated across the US, by everyone one celebrating the hard works of their mothers.
Here's an interesting fact from History.com, "More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than any day of the year. These holiday chats with Mom, often causes phone traffic to spike as much as 37 percent." A lot of calls are being made across the world on Mother's Day, as Mother talk to their children, husband, friend, or even their own Mother, telling them, "Happy Mother's Day!" Did you also know that Mother's Day were actually celebrated by Ancient people too, those that were in BCE times, early Christians celebrated a festival that they call "Mothering Sunday", and that in Europe and United Kingdom, on Mother's Day, people would return to their 'Mother church', which is basically the church near the area.
Bibliography
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
As we all know that Mother's Day is honoring mothers on the second Sunday of May, we might not know the whole story of it.
It all started with Anna Jarvis in 1908, it was her who created Mother's Day to be on the second Sunday of May. When her mother died 1905, she thought that Mother's Day shall be a day to remember the works that the mothers have done. John Wanamaker a business owner also helped her to make Mother's Day an official holiday, but the first celebration was in May 1908, where Anna Jarvis hosted the celebration in a Methodist church in West Virginia. But it wasn't until 1914, when it became an official American holiday. However, this is very weird. When Mother's Day became an official American holiday, by 1920, Jarvis tries to take the holiday off of the American holiday, but was unsuccessful. She urged people to stop buying Mother's Day stuff, sued businesses that even used the words Mother's Day, and was even at government areas to see them take Mother's Day off the calendar. The government had never taken that holiday away and that now Mother's Day is widely celebrated across the US, by everyone one celebrating the hard works of their mothers.
To all mother's on Mother's Day, "Happy Mother's Day!"
Here's an interesting fact from History.com, "More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than any day of the year. These holiday chats with Mom, often causes phone traffic to spike as much as 37 percent." A lot of calls are being made across the world on Mother's Day, as Mother talk to their children, husband, friend, or even their own Mother, telling them, "Happy Mother's Day!" Did you also know that Mother's Day were actually celebrated by Ancient people too, those that were in BCE times, early Christians celebrated a festival that they call "Mothering Sunday", and that in Europe and United Kingdom, on Mother's Day, people would return to their 'Mother church', which is basically the church near the area.
Bibliography
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
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