ABSENT FOR FIRST TIME She Gave Us Mothers Day Mothers day will be celebrated for the first time this year without the active blessing of its founder, Miss Anna M. Jarvis of Philadelphia, Miss Jarvis, who almost single handedly created the nations most sentimental holiday 42 years ago, died last November in a Pennsylvania sanatorium. She was 84, weak with the infirmities of age and almost forgotten by the public. Anna Jarvis grew up in Grafton, W. Va., where her mother taught Sunday school in St. Andrews Methodist church. For AH Mothers In 1905, when Anna Jarvis was 41, her mother died. Anna spent the rest of her life in a great crusade to establish the second Sunday in May as a memorial to her own mother and to mothers all over the nation. She arranged the countrys first Mothers day service in May, 1907. Held in St. Andrews church, it was dedicated to Mrs. Jarvis and all the mothers of Taylor county. HOROSCOPE By RITA DEL, MAR TODAYS QUOTATION. The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil. Samuel Johnson. The next year, Anna Jarvis persuaded Philadelphia to proclaim the first city wide Mothers day. At her urging, West Virginia made Mothers day a state wide holiday in 1912, and Pennsylvania followed suit the next year. She Fought On With single minded tenacity, Anna Jarvis made innumerable speeches before mens and womens clubs and meetings of all kinds. She carried on extensive correspondence with governors, statesmen, clergymen, and editors. Public response was enthusiastic. Congratulatory letters piled so high that she purchased an adjoining house for storage purposes. In 1914, Anna Jarvis persuasive pen won over President Wilson himself. He signed a joint congressional resolution lauding the American mother as the greatest source of the countrys strength and inspiration. It established Mothers day permanently. Whole Souled Devotion In the succeeding years, Miss Jarvis spent every penny of the moderate fortune left by her mother in establishing Mothers day as a deep rooted American tradition. During these years, too, she cared for her younger sister, blind since birth. The carnation was suggested as official Mothers day flower by Anna Jarvis because it had been her mothers favorite. In 1943, a small group of her friends and admirers was shocked to discover that Anna Jarvis was penniless, ill, and nearly blind. They immediately placed her in Marshall Square sanatorium in West Chester, Pa., where she was comfortably cared for during her declining years. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers, goes the old saying. And watching Mary fondle our little precious Hbundle made me realize how true this is. Bobbie is staying with Father and me until Mary is able to handle both of the children. And were having the time of our lives spending most of it in the kitchen, of course, while I make Bobbies favorite cookies and other good things to eat.