Random Mother's Day Facts

Here's a few facts about Mother's Day that are probably best not to be brought up at the dinner table. Actually, it's only one fact, I was misleading with the facts, it's a good one though. According to Wikipedia, Mother's Day was started by Julia Ward Howe after the Civil War to unite women against war. Her proclamation went a little like this:

From the voice of a 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 plough 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 solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...

How we went from that, to here's a nice greeting card & a necklace made out of macaroni I'll never know, although I think it would make a great Mother's Day card.