Happy Hallmark Day, Anna. The Tacky Postcard Archive salutes Anna M. Jarvis. She pretty much
invented Mother's Day, then spent the rest of her life in a bitter but futile campaign to have the holiday repealed because it became so TACKY and commercialized. Read the whole, shocking story at the bottom of our Tacky Mother's Day page.Apparently, the two things that enraged Anna
most were the shameless promotion of carnations and tacky greeting cards people bought because they were too lazy to actually write their mothers.
Could have been cards like THIS that drove her over the edge. You can see her point. Caption: "Roomsaid Ulestousmise Puhl!"Credits: [None] |
