Around 400 years ago，a holiday called“Mothering Sunday” became common in England.It was celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent，which is the period leading up to the Christian holiday of Easter.，the social activist and poet Julia Ward Howe is given credit for first suggesting the celebration of Mother’s Day back in 1872.But the woman many people consider the mother of Mother’s Day here in America is a woman named Anna Jarvis.In the first decade of the 20th century，she started a campaign to make Mother’s Day a national holiday，after the death of her own mother.On May 10，1907，she organized a special Mother’s Day service at her mother’s church in her hometown of Grafton，West Virginia.She chose the second Sunday of May because that was the anniversary of her mother’s passing.Jarvis then got financial backing for her campaingn from wealthy Philadelphia philanthropist(慈善家)John Wanamaker，who founded one of the first department stores in the ，on May 14，1914，President Woodrow Wilson signed a statement that made ，on the second Sunday of May each year.For Jarvis，Mother’s Day was not a day to go out and buy something for your mother.In fact，she opposed what she saw as the growing commercialization of the holiday.She saw Mother’s Day as a day to honor women for the work they do as mothers，not as a day to make money.，don’t worry.Just do something nice，to show her you appreciate what she does for you every day.Chances are，that’ll be enough of a gift for her.解题导语　母亲节到来的时候，人，1907.rs ago.

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