Years after she founded Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis was dining at the Tea Room at Wanamaker’s department store in Philadelphia. She saw they were offering a “Mother’s Day Salad.” ...

An undated photo of Anna Jarvis, from Grafton, West Virginia, who promoted and achieved the proclamation of Mother's Day as a national holiday, in honor of her mother, Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis.

Around the second anniversary of her mother’s passing, Anna Jarvis honored her at a small gathering of friends at her home in Philadelphia. And, on May 10, 1908, Jarvis arranged for 500 white ...

This year is no different -- shoppers will spend an average of $180 per mom. If you hate all of the commercialization behind the day that celebrates moms, imagine how Anna Jarvis would feel now.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Jarvis’ Mother’s Day as a national holiday. If Anna Jarvis hated Mother's Day back then, she would despise it now.

Anna Jarvis was one of 13 children, only four of whom lived to adulthood. Her older brother was the only one to have children of his own, but many died young from tuberculosis and his last direct ...

However, as the Huffington Post reports, when Anna Jarvis founded Mother’s Day in 1908, flowers and brunch were the last thing on her mind.

Mother's Day traditionally includes gifting mothers with cards, flowers, and brunch or dinner. Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day — to mark 100 years on May 11.

Mother’s Day founder Anna Jarvis was so mad, she even went after Eleanor Roosevelt.