Rescinding Mother's Day: After Mother’s Day became a national holiday, stores that sold flowers, cards and candies started to raise prices on that day. Jarvis thought it became so commercialized that in 1943, she began organizing a petition to rescind Mother's Day. She is quoted as saying: "A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother — and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment."
Rescinding Mother's Day: After Mother’s Day became a national holiday, stores that sold flowers, cards and candies started to raise prices on that day. Jarvis thought it became so commercialized that in 1943, she began organizing a petition to rescind Mother's Day. She is quoted as saying: "A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother — and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment." Credit: Photo courtesy George Konig/Hulton Archive