The history of Mother's Day

The day the mothers were honored in England. On this day in history it was the custom of the day for mothers to be home and bake a special cake, called the Mothering Cake. Mother's Day originated in America. Since 1914, America celebrated Mother's Day already. In the Netherlands, Mother's Day is especially a day of Giftss. In its earliest origins, the second Sunday in May in 1914, mainly focusing on the worship of his mother's role. The founder of Mother's Day Anna Jarvis. A single teacher from Philadelphia who lived from 1864 to 1948. And she had her passion for the admiration of the role of mothers not form a stranger. Her mother has organized various things for mothers. So she set up a network of so-called Mother's Work Clubs. Groups of mothers who are jointly tried diseases and infant mortality, which in those days was pretty to fight.

Anne Jarvis is the most famous woman in the history of this day
They assumed that the mother's heart could stand in a better society, "Mother's Better, better homes, better men and woman." When her mother died in 1905, Anne Jarvis on the first Sunday after the death of her mother (her mother died on the first Sunday in May) a personal tribute organized for her mother. The following year she was on the first Sunday after her mother's dying day the first "General Memorial Day or All Mothers' organized. But it took until 1914 before Mother's Day as an official day was introduced. In all those years, Anna Jarvis fought very hard and send a lot of letters to the director for a official Whoreship's day for mothers. Eventually she wrote history, Mother's Day was born.