Volume 15 , Issue 19

Duchess of Weaselskin

Ever wondered about "mothers day?" It was Anna Jarvis, who through her goals made reality in 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson officially declared the second Sunday of every May to be set aside for the celebration honoring moms around the country.

It was a young mother named Ann Reeves Jarvis, a community organizer from West Virginia, that spent many years organizing Mother's Day events, first as a way of bringing attention to infant mortality, then as a way of promoting political activism and pacifist views amongst women, especially in post-Civil War America. But it wasn't until two years after her death in 1905 that her daughter, Anna Jarvis, started to passionately push for the day to be officially recognized.

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