Mother’s Day

Are you ever curious to know how special days originate? I am. I looked up the origin of this one. It seems to have had its beginning in England or amongst the Yugoslavs who, for many years, have set aside a Sunday for honoring mothers. In the U.S. the day received national recognition as recently as 1914. However, long before this, Julia Ward Howe, author of Civil War Days, suggested the observance of a Mothers Day as a day dedicated to peace, and in the early 1900s Anna Jarvis of...