Mother’s Day
Sir, —As a British Mum, may I warmly endorse the Rev. W A. Levack's forcibly phrased strictures on "Mother’s Day”? What both sentimentalists and commercial interests alike ignore is that every mother has a birthday which her progeny can recognise suitably without encouragement from high-pressure salesmanship. Those prettv pictures of an amiable, half-witted looking female with large goggles, framed bv a catchpenny display of dainty handkerchiefs (or something) epitomise the commercial origin of thie celebration: and in the field of song-writers Mum must be a positive goldmine though the logic of such beautiful lines as “Roses round the door, make me love mother more,” has always eluded me. Mothering Sunday is, as Mr Levack says, quite another matter. Here the emphasis is on practical helpfulness to an often overworked parent, and gifts, if any. are confined to a few hand-picked flowers. As there is no money in it for anyone it receives very little publicity.—Yours, etc.. I. TREW. May 14. 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29514, 16 May 1961, Page 3
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