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==Reactions to Mother's Day==
==Reactions to Mother's Day==
===Curmudgeonly===
As noted, the Senate's reaction to Jarvis's proposal was initially cool. And although Mother's Day was enthusiastically adopted by the nation, there were demurrals.
As noted, the Senate's reaction to Jarvis's proposal was initially cool. And although Mother's Day was enthusiastically adopted by the nation, there were demurrals.
In 1935 [[Will Rogers]] remarked:
In 1935 [[Will Rogers]] remarked:
:Mother's Day, it's a beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing that Momma was that easy, they figured, "we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma." Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?<ref>Will Rogers on 12 May 1935, as cited in Frank, Catherine, (2003) ''Quotations for All Occasions,'' Columbia University Press, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_HX0Xyq3ktEC&pg=PA26&ots=WP8VLTGdNI&sig=d4WJZS0aGMgT-zZYhpuVrZ_LyeU#PPA27,M1 p. 26]</ref><ref>If Rogers was not speaking figuratively when he referred to the person who "thought up the idea," then he was being unfair to Anna Jarvis, who was devoted to her mother and stayed with her mother long into her own adulthood.</ref>
:Mother's Day, it's a beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing that Momma was that easy, they figured, "we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma." Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?<ref>Will Rogers on 12 May 1935, as cited in Frank, Catherine, (2003) ''Quotations for All Occasions,'' Columbia University Press, [http://books.google.com/books?id=_HX0Xyq3ktEC&pg=PA26&ots=WP8VLTGdNI&sig=d4WJZS0aGMgT-zZYhpuVrZ_LyeU#PPA27,M1 p. 26]</ref><ref>If Rogers was not speaking figuratively when he referred to the person who "thought up the idea," then he was being unfair to Anna Jarvis, who was devoted to her mother and stayed with her mother long into her own adulthood.</ref>
===Political and social===
Anna Jarvis' efforts to establish Mother's Day coincided with a period of activity in support of women's suffrage. An historian says that "Opponents of woman suffrage eagerly adopted Anna’s cause as their own." One Mother's Day sermon said that "The mother who spends six years with her children will know far more than the woman who neglects her duty in that way for social and political matters." Antisuffragist leader Marjorie Dorman asked "How may a woman enter the public arena and run as far and as fast as a man if little hands cling to her skirts?"<ref name=ah/>
==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==
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