TIL that Anna Jarvis, the woman who founded Mother's Day, tried to get the holiday revoked when companies began to commercialize it for profits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Founding_.28United_States.29



Submitted April 15, 2015 at 07:11PM by hailmary2pac http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/32olxa/til_that_anna_jarvis_the_woman_who_founded/