Mother's Day
母親節
There is a custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A colored carnation means that the person's Mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person's mom is dead.
Years ago, England observed what they called Mothering Sunday. It came in Mid-Lent.
The first suggestion for a day set aside to honor Mothers was made by Julia Ward Howe. She suggested that it be observed on June 2, as a day dedicated to peace.
Julia was born in 1819 in New York to a prominent family. She was an American writer, lecturer, and reformer. She was known as one of the most famous women of her time. She wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", which was inspired when she visited military camps in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War in 1861. It became the major war song of the Union forces.
Julia became interested in the women's movement. She became the first president of the New England Woman Sufferage Association.
Three years after Frank Hering of Indiana launched his campagin for observance of Mother's Day in 1904, Anna Jarvis began a campaign to a nationwide obervance of Mother's Day. She chose the second Sunday in May. She also began the custom of wearing the carnation.
Jarvis' own Mother was honored on the first service at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton,West Virginia, on May 10, 1908. Later, at the general assembly in 1912, a delegate from Andrews Church introduced a resolution recognizing Jarvis as the founder of Mother's Day, and suggested that Mother's Day be observed on the second Sunday in May.
President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint resolution in Congress on May 9, 1914, recommending that the federal government observe Mother's day. The next year, the president was authorized to proclaim an annual holiday.
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母親節英語日記：感恩母親的愛
Today‘s weather very good, God deliberately arranged. This particular day, blue skies, the number of words Happy Mother‘s Day reverberated in the ears.
今天的天氣真好，是上帝刻意安排.這個特殊的日子裏，晴空萬里，多少句"母親節快樂"迴盪在耳邊.
From early in the morning, I mope, because it can not think of what gift to give mother. Later, I came up with in my opinion the best gift for mother. First to see Mother, I sang loudly: Mother, Mother‘s Day Happiness! The world is only a good mother, there is the mother of the child as-bao block. Singing, leaves itself a son and mother‘s arms, dropped into the embrace of mother, and ultimately, happy ... ... Mother died in Iraq last year, with deep feeling with me, Staring at me, eyes full of love and caress. Looked thoughtful, I grew up my mother smile ... 從早晨開始，我就悶悶不樂，因為實在想不到要給媽媽什麼禮物.後來，我想出了我認為最好的禮物送給媽媽.一見到媽媽，我就大聲唱道："媽媽，母親節快樂!世上只有媽媽好，有媽的孩子像塊寶."唱着，一子撲到媽媽的懷裏，"投進媽媽的懷抱，幸福少不了……媽媽淚如泉湧,深情地抱着我，凝望着我,眼裏充滿慈愛和愛撫.看着懂事的我，長大的我，媽媽會心一笑……
Mother, in fact, you know, daughter wanted to tell you there is worth a thousand words, but there are also all into this beautiful melody, which Beat notes the go. Here not only has his daughter‘s aspirations, more daughters are infinite gratitude to you, sincere love.
媽媽，其實您知道的`，女兒有千言萬語想要對您説，然而，也全部溶入到這美妙的旋律，跳動的音符當中去了.這裏不僅有女兒的心聲，的是女兒對您無限的感激，真摯的愛.
People will have a total support of our total love for us there is a touching, heartbreaking. Ah! Mother, you like an umbrella, an umbrella unusual. Summer, for me keep off the sun, winter, let me escape the harsh wind and snow.
總有一個人將我們支撐，總有一種愛讓我們感動，心痛.啊!母親，您就像一頂傘，一頂不平凡的傘.夏天，為我遮擋猛烈的陽光，冬天，讓我躲避嚴厲的風雪.
If you love the sun, let you love your mother, because there is no ray of sunshine than the warmth of maternal love; If you love wind, let you love your mother, because there is no more than a gentle breeze gentle motherly love ... ... ... If you love, please you love your mother, because all the world than maternal love everything tenacity, great, honest ... ...
如果你愛陽光，就請你愛你的母親，因為世上沒有一縷陽光比母愛温暖;如果你愛和風，就請你愛你的母親，因為沒有一陣微風比母愛温柔……如果你愛…，就請你愛你的母親，因為世上一切的一切都比不上母愛堅韌，偉大，淳樸……
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