Comments on: AGAINST MOTHER’S DAY?

By: Mother’s Day : A Historical Perspective « The Boy’s Own Paper

Mother’s Day : A Historical Perspective « The Boy’s Own Paper — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:10:47 +0000

[...] us simply say, it didn’t quite meet with enthusiastic support according to Bill Kauffman at Front Porch Republic: In May 1908, freshman Senator Elmer Burkett (R-NE) put Miss Jarvis’s proposal before his [...]

By: Esmeralda_Pearl

Esmeralda_Pearl — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:42:24 +0000

Ms. Jarvis’s original sentiments were noble. I can understand her disgust. [...] she called greeting cards “a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write’. [...] That about says is all.

I remember when women were given carnation cosages for Mother’s Day as they came into church. Two colors were available for one if their own mother was alive and another if she was deceased. The mens group served (and cleaned up after) a luncheon buffet for those who wished to attend. I’m sure the wives were the ones who prepared the cold-cut platters and other goodies that were served…especially the home-made pies…yummy! Those old Methodist women were great cooks!

I encouraged my children to make cards for their grandmothers. We always went out to dinner the weekend before or after Mother’s Day; because Mum didn’t want to miss the luncheon at church. Also, the service, crowding and food is always a disappointment on Mother’s Day (The busiest eating-out day of the year).

My grown children think that Mother’s Day is a “stupid, contrived holiday.” However, I encourage my grandchildren to make cards and give their mother and their stepmother the cards and a carnation. I let their own mothers worry about dinner and the arrangements between the families. I am happy to spend the day with my spinster daughter and DH (darling hubsend)

Yes gentlemen, I am a sentimental old lady!….and I love it!

By: Jason Peters

Jason Peters — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:29:04 +0000

Poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket!

By: Allan Carlson

Allan Carlson — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:51:42 +0000

Okay…. Only Bill Kauffman would call down rain on Mothers’ Day….. He does remind us, though, of just how different the American Republic was a century ago, before we succumbed to Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and cheap sentimentality as a substitute for familial autonomy and self reliance.

By: D.W. Sabin

D.W. Sabin — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:46:33 +0000

Might I suggest a National Holiday commemorating:
Post…… Washington D.C., while Congress is in Session and the President hard at work at his desk to China as collateral for their misc. and sundry investments in us ”

to be followed by another holiday of celebration:

Default on said posting, thus having to render up the Federal District to said Chinese Note Holders

No Backsies

Imagine that, a member of Congress asserting that something is “none of their business”

Three cheers to Ma though. If men were forced to conceive and give birth, the species would have cashed out with the first generation.

By: Esmeralda_Pearl

Esmeralda_Pearl — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:16:27 +0000

Thank you! “Do-Gooders” often do more harm than good.

Hmm…What’s that other saying about H*ll, roads and good intentions?

I can understand the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. Why our government’s representatives think that they need to endorse a pastiche of commemorative days and months is beyond me! Since the economy is in bad shape; maybe our Congressmen(women) and Senators should become part-time employees…and take the corresponding pay cut!