The woman who was the driving force behind the creation of Mother’s Day came to rue that day. Anna Jarvis, who organized the first observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia in 1908, reportedly came to despise so much the commercialization that was already taking over her creation, she campaigned to abolish it.
Jarvis, who never had any children, is said to have lamented that the day of sentiment she had envisioned had instead “become a bonanza for greeting cards, which she saw as ‘a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write.’” Happy Mother’s Day anyway.
