Sunday Next Is Mother’s Day
• ; f Just a reminder that Sunday | • next is Mother’s Day. f | In 1890 Miss Anna Jarvis, of | | America, instituted the idea of | • setting aside one Sunday in May | I to specially honour mothers. f | Never has an idea spread so | t rapidly or so universally. Today | i Mother’s Day is recognised ? I throughout all parts of the Brit- | I ish Empire and in many other | f countries of the world. | | Australians keep strictly to the f | celebrations and in Sydney it is i | rare indeed to meet a person on | | Mother’s Day who does not wear | | the white flower symbolic of the f | purity of women, who, by great I f personal sacrifice, have reared the | | children of the nation. f | In New Zealand the Mother’s | | Day movement has grown in | | popularity, and in Whangarei this f | week shopkeepers are co-operat- f ? ing by displaying gifts of all types i f suitable for presentation on | f Mother’s Bay, | | Throughout the Dominion the * | second Sunday in May is set apart | ? as Mother’s Day. = u> • * Remember, a white flower in ? 3 f j your buttonhole next Sunday is | f a symbol of respect, and some | | small gift will show to the one ? I mother in the world that she has • 3 • ; been, remembered. * i
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Northern Advocate, 11 May 1939, Page 3
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