Mother's Day n. A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who designated the second Sunday in May, or for schools the second Friday, as the time, and a white carnation as the badge.
... folks were going to take the Brandon house this summer; and so you are the ones? It's a sightly old place; I used to go and see Miss Katharine. She must have left a power of china-ware. She set a great deal by the house, and she kept everything just as it used to be in her mother's day." ... — Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... it is the 1st of May; and if that is not our Blessed Mother's day too, I'd like to know what is!" ... — Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... even before the Charlottetown schooling, had a far better chance than her mother; for in her mother's day there was no free school in the island, and in families of ten and twelve it was only a turn and turn about that the children had at school. Since the free schools had been established many a grown man and woman had sighed curiously at the better luck of the youngsters ... — Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
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