Jarvis became so embittered by what she saw as misinterpretation and exploitation that she protested and even tried to rescind Mothers Day. The holiday she had worked so hard for was supposed to be about sentiment, not profit. Jarvis organized boycotts and threatened lawsuits to try to stop the commercialization. She crashed a candymakers convention in Philadelphia in 1923. Two years later she protested at a confab of the American War Mothers, which raised money by selling carnations, the flower associated with Mother’s Day, and was arrested for disturbing the peace. Source; ===== en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_Day
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