history of mothers day.......

In 1870, Julia Ward Howe issued a Mother’s Day Proclamation after penning the Battle Hymn of the Republic twelve years earlier. She called on mothers to come together and protest the killing of their sons during the Civil War.
Conceived in 1908, the current holiday is largely attributed to Anna Jarvis, the daughter of a prominent Mother’s Day Work Club founder. Her mother worked to improve sanitary and health conditions in West Virginia.

Jarvis hoped to accomplish her mother’s dream of creating a celebration for all mothers after several proclamations and calls by leaders in the late 1800’s failed to establish an American Mother’s Day.
After enlisting the aid of wealthy Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker, Jarvis’ dream became a reality when President Woodrow Wilson declared it an official national holiday in 1914.
In the following decades, the holiday would become the victim of commercialization, and is largely considered a “Hallmark holiday” by most, including its founder Jarvis who noted her regret over the evolution of the celebration by the time of her death in 1948.
Today, Mother’s Day remains of the largest days for sales of flowers and greeting cards in the United States and its modernization has been adopted by other nations around the world.
The occasion remains to have different meanings and is often associated with different religious, historical, or legendary events, but the practice of bestowing flowers, carnations in particular, as well as presents and greeting cards are the most common characteristics worldwide.
Canada, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Greece and more than a dozen other countries follow the US, celebrating the holiday every year on the second Sunday of May. In the United Kingdom, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent while Mexicans observe the occasion on May 10.