Mother's Day Index

Mother's Day cards most often
depicted white carnations, during
the earlier half of the 20th
Century.

       Mother's Day is a day set apart in the United States to honor mothers. The second Sunday in May has been thus selected, and the day is observed generally in churches by special sermons or other exercises. Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia was the first to suggest the idea of observing Mother's Day, on which everyone pas tribute to the best mother in the world -- his or her own. 

       Over one hundred years ago the wearing of white carnations on Mother's Day was the most popular tradition aside from attending church. Today Americans take their mother's out for a meal in a local restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner, most usually after attending a church service, if they are inclined to religious observance. Read more...

Artifacts for Mother's Day:
Celebration of Mothers Everywhere:

• A Proclamation By The President of The United States of America by President Woodrow Wilson
• Mother's Day Bill In Congress  by Congressional Record 

Poems About Motherhood:

• Creation's Constant Love  - by Leopold Schaffer
• The Prophecy of Mother-Love - by Professor Swing
• Maternal Love
• The Picture of My Mother - by Oliver Marble
  
• A Woman's Heart
• The Voice of My Mother - by Gerald Massey
  
• Born-A Daughter
• The Gift  - by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Good Daughter
  
• A Mother's Love  - by Montgomery
• An Early Childhood Prayer -  by Eugene Henry Pullen
• Bright little fairy tales... - by Samuel Lover
  
• Soft and Low - by Mary Frances Butts
• Singing Mother to Sleep - by Richard Kendall Munkittrick
  
• Widow and Child - by Alfred Tennyson
• To My Mother  - by Charles Tennyson Turner
  
• Japanese Lullaby  - by Eugene Field

Mother's Day Card Crafts:

• Bright and Cheerful Kid - Mother's Day Card - made with cup cake liners and buttons
• Printable Poem Flower Pot for Mother's Day - stamp palm print flowers