MOTHERS’ DAY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9468, 10 June 1909, Page 2

MOTHERS’ DAY.

A NEW FaSTVAL. New York, April 14. “Mothers’ Day” will be generally celebrated this year in the large towns of the United States. It is now more than twelve months since Senator Burkett rose in Congress and suggested that a day be set apart every year for the mothers' of America, His idea was that all American women on tbe second Sunday of May should wear a white flower in honor of their mothers. While it failed to arouse a sentimental echo in the breasts of the legislators, the Idea of dhserving Mothers’ Day was enthusiastically adopted by the women and clergymen of the country. It was observed on a small scale in New York last year, when the custom of celebrating Children s Day in the churches of the various denominations was placed upon a larger basis to include the consideration from the pulpit of all the duties incident to motherhood. This year Mrs James J. Oahen, president of the New York City Mothers’ Club, stated that the’ 140, women’s clubs which flourish in New York, boasting a membership of 450,000, have all agreed to partioipate in Mothers’ Day. They will march, carrying banners, fro™ she club houses to the churches of the different denominations, where in the afternoon there will be special services for children, followed by services for adnlts. ... , The pulpits in the majority of cases will be occupied by women, who will discourse on the duties ana responsibilities of motherhood and the best means of training children. The example of New York will be imitated by a score of other big American towns, where women s olnba are being organised with a rieWito rendering the day one for the teaching by mothers of sound ideas on moral questions. The weeks now remaining before Mothers’ Day will he devoted to an earnest campaign by women lecturers whom the clubs have appointed to visit the elementary schools to lecture to tbe children on * The Physiological Lessons of Life.’