Mother's Day

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Mother's Day 1870
The Integrity Of Love
Mom's the Word
Recognition of Mother's Day vs. Father's Day
The 5 Scariest Moms in History

Mother's Day - 1870

Here is the original, Mother's Day proclamation made in Boston by Julia Ward Howe, a Unitarian, in 1870. The proclamation was a rallying call for peace. Compliments of I. Stueber, Abigail's Rebels newsgroup --

Proclamation for Mother's Day

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." Blood does not wipe out dishonor nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God--

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.

The Integrity Of Love

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars." The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said, "Yes, please! You can take me to my mother." She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.

Mom's the Word

The mother lode of stats on your first lady.

Inherit Danger

Despite anatomical evidence to the contrary, Dad isn't the only parent who can pass on an elevated risk of prostate and testicular cancers. For example, if your mother took the anti miscarriage drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) during her pregnancy - and many women did until DES was withdrawn in 1975 - you have a greater chance of developing both diseases. The culprit: the powerful synthetic estrogen in DES. Or let's say Mom lit up while you were in utero. A recent Swedish study shows that men whose mothers develop lung cancer have almost double the normal risk of testicular cancer, most likely because the women smoked while pregnant. If you don't know it Mom puffed cigarettes or popped DES, ask her ASAP. Depending on her answers, you should either talk to your doctor about having your PSA levels checked at age 40, be extra-diligent about monthly testicular self-exams, or both.
Source: Men's Health magazine, May, 2005

 

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