[Iowa-dx] Re: [icprogressive] The Real History of Mothers Day for Peace

[Libris Fidelis]

Thanks very much for your information.  This is a lot like "Sandy Claws"
Day and "National Sugar and Egg" Day (Easter).

Ronald Kinum
a.k.a. LIbris Fidelis

>From: the3rdiowa@mchsi.com
>To: "Libris Fidelis" <librisfidelis@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [icprogressive] The Real History of Mothers Day for Peace
>Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:00:07 +0000
>
>Ron,
>
>As a Unitarian Universalist, this has a special meaning, Julia Ward Howe 
>was a
>Unitarian and while working to abolish slavery, she is best known for 
>penning
>the poem "The Battle Hymnn of the Republic". She was also a early fighter 
>for
>women's rights to education and to vote--unfortunately she died long before 
>the
>sufferagette movement which she and Lucy Stone, along with Susan B. Anthony 
>and
>Elizabeth Cady Stanton started, succeeded when the 19th amendment was 
>ratified
>in 1920.
>
>Here's a little more about Mother's Day from
>http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100e.htm
>
>In 1870, Julia Ward Howe took on a new issue and a new cause. Distressed by 
>her
>experience of the realities of war, determined that peace was one of the 
>two
>most important causes of the world (the other being equality in its many 
>forms)
>and seeing war arise again in the world in the Franco-Prussian War, she 
>called
>in 1870 for women to rise up and oppose war in all its forms. She wanted 
>women
>to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common
>above what divides us, and commit to finding peaceful resolutions to 
>conflicts.
>She issued a Declaration, hoping to gather together women in a congress of
>action.
>
>She failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother's Day for
>Peace. Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian 
>homemaker
>who had attempted starting in 1858 to improve sanitation through what she
>called Mothers' Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to 
>work
>for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work 
>to
>reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.
>
>Anna Jarvis' daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, would of course have known 
>of
>her mother's work, and the work of Julia Ward Howe. Much later, when her 
>mother
>died, this second Anna Jarvis started her own crusade to found a memorial 
>day
>for women. The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in West Virginia in 
>1907
>in the church where the elder Anna Jarvis had taught Sunday School. And 
>from
>there the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. Finally the
>holiday was declared officially by states beginning in 1912, and in 1914 
>the
>President, Woodrow Wilson, declared the first national Mother's Day.

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