Why did the founder of Mother's Day try to abolish it?

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Why did the founder of Mother's Day try to abolish it?

 

 

Mother's Day founder, Anna Jarvis greatly admired her mother, who tended to the

wounded during the Civil War. It is believed that Anna heard her mother pray that

there might one day be a day to honor mothers and the work that they do. When Anna's

mother died in 1905, she made it her mission to create such a day. She held

memorials for her mother on the anniversary of her death and handed out white

carnations (her mother's favorite flower) in remembrance. After many letters to the

government of West Virginia and later to Congress, Mother's Day was approved by

President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.

The holiday was meant to be spent in Church, and afterwards, sons and daughters

would write letters to their mothers. Carnations were also given to mothers - red or

pink for living mothers and white for those who had passed. But with every passing

year, Mother's Day became more and more commercialized. In 1920, greeting cards

entered the scene. Anna was enraged and appalled, and tried to abolish the holiday

in 1924. In 1930 she was arrested for disturbing the peace at a Mother's Day

carnation sale. She spent the rest of her life fighting against the holiday she had

created. Source: The History Channel