Special Days for Special People – Mother’s day

Mother’s Day

The chairmen of most social service clubs oddly feel that character eulogies should be assigned to a neophyte member or to someone who is spoiling to make a speech. To help them, we respectfully offer these thoughts:

For days there’s been a run on florist shops, candy stores and gift counters; and volumes of phone calls, wires and greeting cards will criss-cross the country as Americans remember the “first lady” in their lives on Mother’s Day.

Mothers today bear small resemblance to the shawl-shouldered “Ma” in Whistler’s picture, painted when women were devoted to drudgery. In our lightened world, machines do the clothes and the dishes, and the lady of the house doesn’t have calloused hands as a result of preparing packaged foods from the freezer.

But despite all these current comforts, man has still come up with no machine that can soothe a fall, wipe a tear, scrub a dirty face, or capture warmth, like Mother’s embrace.

Mothers in awe

The American Society of Comedy created quite a stir when it culled one day from the calendar and called it Mother-in-Law Day. The Society sought to put humor and mockery into the occasion, but the idea of rehashing a hackneyed line about women who deserve reflective respect, fell like a lead balloon.

Satire that revolves around wheels spinning on a high center, loses its luster and gets nowhere. Most of these mothers-in-awe are kindly kinfolks-more imposed upon than imposing. Where else will you find baby sitters to render more dependable service, or serve without pay? The society missed the most material fact: that by a queer quirk of nature mothers-in-law are also mothers, an ancillary incident that prompts people to resent mother-in-law humor that hurts.

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