It was a Saturday, so the Saturday magazines were out, including this one honoring the very first Mother's Day.
President Wilson issued a proclamation decreeing Mother's Day. It created the holiday.
The purpose of the day was to honor mothers who had lost sons in wars, although those who had backed the day had a broader purpose, that being to honor mother's in general.
A lot more mothers were about to lose their sons in war.
The war the US was anticipating was one with Mexico, and a full scale staging of troops on the border was underway, as evidenced by this collection of photographs which were copyrighted on this day.
Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade & 22 Inf.), Texas City, Texas, 1914
19th & 28th Infantry Camp, Fort Crockett, Texas, 1914.
6th Cavalry Camp, mobilized at Texas City, Texas.
Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade, 11th & 22nd Inf's.), Texas City, Texas, 1914.
4th & 7th Infantry Camp, Fort Crockett, Texas.
Mobilization Camp, 2nd Div. (less 5th Brigade), Texas City, Texas, 1914
I wonder if some reconsideration should be given to Mother's Day in 2024, 110 years after its creation. It's harder in some ways now to be a mother than ever, what with the full industrialization of the population, meaning that motherhood comes second to being a worker drone, something the right and the left agree upon. At the second time, the Sexual Revolution has meant that a lot of men have become permanently infantile and the societal union between men and women, reflected in marriage, has been enormously weakened.
I'm not sure what a "floating laborer" described, but it probably fits the temp work a lot of single mothers have today.
This has lead to a lot of "single mothers", there really being no such thing actually, and last year an op-ed piece ran in one online journal suggesting there should be a "Single Mother's Day".
Not hardly. If ever there's a place where the old standards should be restored, it's here.
Regarding industrialization, C W Post of cereal fame, severely suffering from appendicitis killed himself on this day.
Papers were pretty free with their headlines in those days.
Suffragettes marched.
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