关键词:
MOTHER'S Day
SUNDAY school teachers
摘要:
Julia Ward Howe, of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' fame, tried to start a Mother's Day for Peace in America after the Civil War, but nothing much came of it. One of her allies, however, was Anna Reece Jarvis, who died in Philadelphia in 1905. A memorial service was held for her at the Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia, where she had taught Sunday school, at which her daughter, Anna May Jarvis, a feminist and temperance activist, was struck by the idea of a national day to honour mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]