MOTHER’S DAY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 185, 4 May 1936, Page 8

MOTHER’S DAY

Observance in Wellington Next Sunday Next Sunday will be Mother’s Day in Wellington. Though this day has been set aside for some years past for special observance, there has been no organisation behind it, and some of rhe religious denominations have left It to the individual churches to decide whether the day should be observed. This year the main Mother’s Day service will be held at the Y.M.C.A. at 11 am., when the Rev, J. R. Blanchard will be the preacher. Emphasis is to be laid upon s indebtedness t>o motherhood and to womanhood in general. The observance, it is hoped, will go deeper than the formal wearing of a white flower in men’s buttonholes; a world-wide campaign is being made to establish the conception of gratitude in place of the traditional sentimentality. The idea of setting apart one day in every year as Mother’s Day began in the United States and now it Is re garded as a permanent institution. The carnation is the adopted symbol of the day. and almost everyone wears a white one of these flowers in honour of the mothers. A growing custom is for a son or daughter to send their mother a present, usually of flowers or fruit The shops have not berm slow to seize upon the occasion as suitable for special floral displays and the introduction of appropriate slogans.