MOTHERS-IN-LA WCHEERED

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 12

MOTHERS-IN-LA WCHEERED

FESTIVAL IN TEXAS A GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. March 10 Founded on the remorse of a local newspaper editor, whose version of the mother-in-law joke made a friend’s wife’s mother err. Texas is celebrating to-day the Mother-in-law Festival, says tne New York correspondent of the News-Chronicle. The day is thus designated by proclamation'of Governor James Allred. Cheered by huge crowds, 500 mothers-in-law drove through the streets of Amarillo. Mrs Roosevelt, first lady In the

I United States, and herself a mother-in-law, was among the spectators of the flve-mlle-long parade. Plea for Sympathy Later the wife of the President made a speech extolling mothers-in-law and pleading on their behalf for greater sympathy. Amarillo describes Itself as the “centre of the mother-in-law belt.” The contrite, sentimental editor started the idea: It then swept the whole State, and this year 50.000 visitors were attracted to the town for ’ the ■' biggest ever “ celebration of the festival. The Emblem Its sponsors are pained by efforts to make commercial capital from the beautiful thought behind the parade, and are coming down heavily on drustorcs, offering mothers-in-law free ice cream sodas.

P.S.—lf you’re stirred by the mental picture of this Texan festival, and wish to salute your own mother-in-law, the correct gesture is to send her sweet peas. They were selected as their emblem for the day by the vote of Amarillo mother-in-law clubs.

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