What's your favourite celebration?

1_Virat Kohli: What’s my name?

First, he takes off the helmet and kisses it, then he lets out a roar. Then he points to the name on his jersey just in case there’s anyone in the cricket world who doesn’t already know it.

2_Shahid Afridi: The Starman 

Who else in cricket could pull off a celebration that literally says “I’m the star here”? First performed in 2006, after a running catch, the Starman pose has been brought out many times since, after wickets catches batting milestones and victories and still looks good on a 40-year-old Afridi in the Pakistan Super League.

3_The Cottrell salute

During the 2019 World Cup, kids all over the world were doing the Sheldon Cottrell salute, complete with the military march that leads into it and the celebratory throwing up of the arms that comes after. A soldier in the Jamaican Defence Force, Cottrell uses the celebration to honour his colleagues and military personnel everywhere.

4_Imran Tahir’s lap of the world 

More memes have been made about Imran Tahir’s never-ending sprint of a celebration than probably anything else in cricket. There is no curious back story about this celebration. It’s just a man who moved countries for love and waited years to gain citizenship and be eligible to play international cricket expressing how happy he is to be alive and doing what he loves.

5_The David Warner leap 

A celebration so iconic it once had an award statue made in its likeness, the leap is a reminder that Warner so often embroiled in controversy can also embody the joy the game brings to those who love it.

6_Dale Steyn: The chainsaw

One hand winds back, then swings forward quick, in an uppercut motion, and now both fists are clenched the veins popping in the forearms and the eyes bulging  Steyn’s trademark celebration is as ferocious as his bowling. As he entered his 30s, Steyn considered toning down his celebration but his team-mates especially Faf du Plessis urged him to keep it as it was emblematic of the team’s intensity. “If I ever see him celebrate a wicket timidly I’m on his case saying I want to see some veins” du Plessis said in a video feature for Steyn’s 400th wicket.

7_Chris Gayle: Gangnam Style 

In 2012, after 33 years without an ICC Trophy, and with the rapid decline of their Test team one of the most worrisome stories in the game the West Indies cricket team rekindled some of the Calypso genius of years past becoming World Twenty20 champions after a campaign full of dynamic cricket and exuberant celebrations. There was no more lasting image from the win than Chris Gayle dreads flying, doing the Gangnam Style dance after the final.

8_Rumman Raees: The non-celebration 

In a world where bowlers are doing everything from military-style salutes to sprinting the length of the field what better way to stand out than just put your hands behind your back or fold them across your chest, and do nothing at all? This isn’t the logic behind Ruman Raees’ unique way of celebrating though. He begun his non-celebrating ways in the 2017 Pakistan Super League. Since bowlers take so much punishment in Twenty20s it’s better not to celebrate wickets at all as you never know if you’ll be hit for six the next ball Raees explained when asked about it.

9_The Gabbar thigh slap

It’s the contradictions that make this celebration so watchable. The moustache and the kabaddi-style slap of the inner thigh scream machismo but the impish smile lets you know Shikhar Dhawan, whose fans know him as Gabbar after a famous Bollywood villain is not taking himself too seriously.

10_Dwayne Bravo: The Champion dance

Bravo’s song Champion released in 2016, has 86 million views on Youtube, and the accompanying dance has been performed by numerous other players celebrities entire teams celebrities and groups of fans. Bravo is constantly trying out new dances to celebrate his wickets but it’s the Champion one that is iconic.

11_Kesrick Williams: The notebook

Williams ticking off of names is one of the most controversial celebrations out there and has been seen by some batsmen as a taunt. Chadwick Walton was the first to take offence during the 2017 Caribbean Premier League making tick marks on his bat for every boundary he struck off Williams as revenge for having been ‘written off’ in a prior game. And then there was the run-in with the most ticked off man in cricket himself Virat Kohli who carried the grudge of being sent off with the Notebook in 2017 and responded with a paper-ripping version of the celebration in 2019.

12_Joe Root: The bat drop

Grant Elliot did it first after a match-winning six in a Pakistan Super League match in 2017 but Joe Root’s version in 2018 seemed to mean more. Root had been left out of the England Twenty20 side for the third match of the home series against India. Back in the side for the ODIs Root made consecutive hundreds including one in the decider. After scoring the winning runs he dropped the bat. Job done message delivered.

13_The Ross Taylor tongue poke

How do you make a group of selectors regret dropping you? You stick your tongue out at them every time you score a hundred for the next 13 years! Taylor was dropped in 2006 and when he got a match-winning century against Australia the following year took a cheeky dig at the men who had left him out. The reason he’s kept the celebration around so long is because his kids find it amusing.

14_The naagin dance 

The celebration that ignited a new Asian rivalry one that would involve an on-field scuffle and a shattered dressing-room window. It began with Nazmul Hasan who made the dance his trademark celebration after Daren Sammy his team-mate in the Bangladesh Premier League nicknamed him The Snake. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka players began taunting each other with the celebration in 2018, and it all boiled over during the Nidahas Trophy that year. The final over of a tense match saw an argument over a no-ball call a substitute being shoved and an irate Shakib Al Hasan step onto the field. When Bangladesh won the entire team did the dance in celebration. The Sri Lankan crowd was incensed.

15_The Andre Russell heel click

Andre Russell built like a boxe brutal hitter of sixes bowler of nasty bouncers taker of jaw-dropping athletic catches celebrates his wickets as if he was in a Broadway musical. What’s not to love?

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4 ways to tone your skin with face with yoga........

4 Way To Tone Your Skin, Face with Yoga:

While creams and serums can go a long way in moisturising skin and improving elasticity their efficiency can be greatly improved by face yoga. A quick and easy skincare practice that doubles as self-care. “Just like we work on our body to stay fit and sculpted it’s important to work the muscles of our face as well to look young. 

Each of these muscles, when toggled and nudged in the right direction prevents sagging increases blood flow thus improving absorption of any cream or oils we may apply nourishing and toning our face,” says face yoga practitioner and owner of House of Beauty, Vibhuti Arora. 

How does face yoga benefit the skin?

As the face ages skin loses elasticity and fat pads between the muscle and skin become thinner. These fat pads, which fit together like jigsaw puzzle  give the face its shape. As skin starts to sag due to age these thinning fat pads tend to slide down. However, if this muscle is worked out on it can fill out and push up the pads counteracting the slip-sliding.

 "Facial workouts also help fill in hollow cheeks and minimise other signs of ageing. These exercises focus on strengthening and building up underlying muscle in key areas such as cheeks, jawline, neck, eyelids, and eyebrows,” she adds. In a 2018 study researchers found that women who practiced face yoga every day for eight weeks then every other day for twelve weeks looked younger at the end of the process than those who didn't. The benefits are not just external, though. Since you have to pay attention to your movements, face yoga requires mindfulness for best results. 

Before you start applying a serum moisturiser or oil with some slip can help to keep the skin supple when you stretch. As you press your face into your skin for certain exercise you can move the product into the skin further improving efficacy.

 “You want to warm up to start.  It's important to switch off and calm yourself and be mindful of the process. Stretch your neck two to three times to either side to open and release the muscles," says Vibhuti. 

4 face yoga exercises you can try now;

A smile and pout exercise for fine lines

Repeating this exercise three to five times will help to make your cheeks firm and tighten the area around your lips. “This exercise also reduces the nasolabial lines or laugh lines,” she says. This is great for lifting droopy corners of the mouth. 

1-Hold your lips together.

2-Smile and hold for five counts.

3-Change to a pout and hold for eight counts.

4-Repeat ten times.

A facial massage for tired eyes and puffiness
This exercise focuses on reducing drooping eyelids, crow’s feet, eye bags and puffiness. "You can use your fingers, but you can use a face roller should you want more pressure,” she says.

1-Place both hands on the forehead facing inwards and spread all of the fingers out between the eyebrows and hairline.

2-Gently sweep the fingers outwards across the forehead, applying light pressure to tighten the skin.

3-Then, place both palms on your temples.

4-Push your palms up and back to lift the sides of your face.

5-Hold for five seconds and repeat two more times.

A toning exercise to reduce crow's feet
This exercise tones the upper and lower eyelids and helps with lymphatic drainage. “By stretching your eyes and applying pressure to the areas around it, you can help fill out the lines that come from crow’s feet. This exercise can also give you a morning wake-up call by smoothing eye bags and calming puffy eyes,” reveals Vibhuti.

1-Form a V with your fingers and place them on your eyebrows.2-Apply pressure and then, without tilting your head, look up to the ceiling.3-Raise your lower eyelids to form a squint and blink.4-Relax, then repeat ten more times.5-Finish by squeezing your eyes shut for 10 seconds.

A defining exercise to strengthen the neck and jawline

This exercise works to strengthen the muscles of the neck and jawline, which when done correctly, can help plump up the fat pads in that area, preventing fine lines and a lack of definition.

1-Hold your chin with both hands, and apply firm pressure.

2-Gently move your hands towards your temple, and nudge upwards.

3-Move your chin to the left, and right, and make a pucker with your lips for an added benefit.

4-Repeat this exercise 10 times.

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7 tricks celebrity photographers use to nail hair and makeup shots..........

1. Think side profile:

If you’re looking to flaunt your hairstyle, the side profile is your friend. For her debut on a reality TV show last year, Kareena Kapoor Khan marked the occasion with a slicked-back rope braid. Vaishnav Praveen, one half of celebrity-favourite The House of Pixels, explains, “Instead of opting for a full-frontal shot we chose to do a side profile instead. 

By having her face the camera at a three-fourth angle we could capture the unconventional hairdo as well as her beautifully kohled eyes.”

2. Play with light and shadow:

While shadows are usually considered anathema for beauty shots Vaishnav recommends them for adding an air of mystery and allure to photos. Further proof can be found in the head-to-toe brocade look and wispy bun that Sonam Kapoor chose for a recent event.

 “We headed to her terrace and shot under the harsh top light of the sun at 1pm in the afternoon, which ended up adding more drama to the photo. 

The wisps of hair framing her face created a wonderful play of light and shadow on her face,” the Mumbai-based photographer explains.

3. Keep proportions in mind:

Vaishnav also recommends keeping in mind the proportion of the face to the body. For the recent promotions of Chhapaak, Deepika Padukone was spotted in a bodycon tangerine dress and a coordinated pop lip to go with. 

Vaishnav says, “For highlighting the lashes and the lip colour it helps to opt for a slightly lower shot. While a top shot works well for enhancing the volume of the lashes  going a little below the eye level will help you capture the arch of the lips as well.”

4. Natural sunlight is your friend:

You’ll find that the soft glow of natural daylight is better any filter by photography apps. He adds, “As a rule of thumb, the first hour of daylight in the morning and the last hour of sunlight in the evening before dusk are the best options for creating magic.

 Since the sun is at a lower angle in the sky it reduces the intensity of sunlight which will give your beauty shots a softer, cooler tone. For Sonam’s recent trip to Abu Dhabi we captured her in the easy romanticism of evening light for a soft  radiant glow.”

5. Less is more:

Celebrity makeup artist Sandhya Shekar seconds the notion. “Makeup translates best in soft focus lighting. Since we are all at home and Zoom has become our primary means of communication I find that the no-makeup makeup look gives you the perfect blend of accentuating the features and yet adding that softness that you need while you’re at home,” she advises.

 Beauty watchers will have no trouble finding inspiration in the understated makeup looks she regularly creates for Padukone with lip colours that range from caramel mattes to soft tans with a suede finish.

6. Experiment with lighting:

While natural sunlight is a heaven-sent it isn’t your only source of lighting for creating magic in front of the lens. “There are multiple sources of lighting that you have access to in everyday life for creating a beautiful portrait from the flash of a torchlight to the muted glow of an evening lamp.

 For instance sometimes we direct the light onto a mirror and then reflect it on the subject to create a sense of intrigue in the photo,” he says.

7. Go easy on the editing:

When in doubt, go down the au naturel route—young debutante Janhvi Kapoor clearly agrees. “About a month after her debut movie Dhadak  hit the theatres we did a photoshoot to capture her fresh youthful glow. 

The beauty brief was clean and minimal, with just lip and eye makeup and no base. We shot her under the film lights used on movie sets, and chose not to edit or retouch the flyaways or errant strands of hair to give a cinematic vibe,” adds Vaishnav.....

lock down and Photography:

An average day in the life of a celebrity doesn’t allow for much downtime and managing to nail those close-up  involves little more than just knowing your best side. Over the course of the past two years a new trend of OOTD photoshoots has further emerged on the platform with celebrities posing for the lens minutes before heading out the door. 

Finding the time to face an undiscerning camera lens in between those last-minute touches can seem like an uphill task but a couple of strategic moves honed over years of practice always come in handy. Ahead we get the dream team behind their photoshoots to allow us a peek into their playbook. If you’re looking to document all the new beauty looks you’ve been experimenting with during the lockdown, here are the photography tricks that will get the double-taps rolling in.

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American woman's postcard addressed to her brother .......

An American woman's postcard addressed to her brother reached her destination 33 years later

The postcard was sent to Christmas in 1987. The card was found while cleaning the post office in Corona Lockdown and was sent to Paul Wills.

(Washington) An American woman's postcard addressed to her brother has reached its destination after 33 years. According to US media, the postcard sent 33 years ago managed to reach its destination due to the lockdown of Code 19 epidemic.

According to the post office, Anne Lowell, an American woman, sent a postcard to her brother on Christmas Eve in 1987. But for a long time the postcard did not reach the destination. The American woman and her brother never mentioned the postcard during that time. Which lets them know who posted a card.

But thirty-two and a half years later, when Paul Willis, a resident of San Francisco, California, USA, received a card sent to his sister, he called her.

Annie, 65, was shocked. "A picture is worth more than a thousand words," Paul Willis read to his sister as he read the card. Posted with this photo on December 18, 1987, received on April 29, 2020 with a new San Francisco stamp.

Anne is now working as a teacher. His brother is 76 years old. The reason for the late arrival of the postcard is that the card was lost somewhere in the post office.

 Now the card was found while the post office was being cleaned during the lockdown. Which was immediately sent by the post office.

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The treason of 1857 when Delhi was bathed in blood....

Let there be no light in anyone's eye, let there be no determination in anyone's heart

Those who can't work, I'm just a handful.

One cannot imagine that the creator of these poems, Bahadur Shah Zafar, would have led the people of India in the first war of independence fought against the British in 1857.

The revolt began on May 10, 1857 in Meerut when the Bengal Lancer troops revolted and marched towards Delhi.

There was a very important research on the events of 1857

   "There were rifles that had to be cut in the mouth and loaded into the gun," he said. At that time it was said that it contained cow and pig fat, so the Muslims were also reluctant to touch them and the Hindus were also reluctant to touch them.

There were other reasons why they were being sent to fight overseas. So the Brahmins believe that if they cross the water, that is, the sea, their caste disappears. Their development was only to a limited extent. Indian soldiers could not go beyond the governor. He had a lot of complaints like that.

Some called it treason, some called it the War of Independence. May 11, 1857 was a Monday. It was the 16th day of Ramadan and at seven in the morning, King Bahadur Shah Zafar was offering Ishraq prayers in the photo gallery of the Red Fort on the banks of the river. At the same time, they saw smoke rising from the Jumna Par toll house.

He immediately sent his team there to find out the reason and also summoned Prime Minister Hakeem Ehsanullah Khan and Captain Douglas, who was in charge of guarding the fort. At four o'clock the rebel leader sent a message to the king that he wanted to meet him. They gathered in the compound of Diwan-e-Khas and started firing in the air with their guns and pistols.

"The king's example was the same as that of the king after he was struck on the chessboard."

After a long silence, Bahadur Shah Zafar said, “Why is an old man like me being insulted so much? What is the cause of this noise? The sun of our lives has already reached its twilight. These are the last days of our lives. At the moment, we just want to be alone. "

Charles Metcalfe later wrote in his book Two Nations Narrative: Ehsanullah Khan told the soldiers that he had been working for the British and was accustomed to a fixed salary. The king has no treasure. Where will they pay you? '

The soldiers replied that we would bring the money of the whole country to your treasury. Bahadur Shah Zafar said that I have no army, no weapons and no money, so he said we only need your support. We will bring you everything. "

Bahadur Shah Zafar remained silent for a while. Not being able to make a quick decision was the biggest flaw of his personality but on that day Bahadur Shah Zafar did not delay in making a decision and said yes. He sat on a chair and all the soldiers took turns bowing before him and placing their hands on his head. The soldiers occupied the rooms of the fort and some even made their beds in the Diwan-e-Aam.

The king could neither control nor manage such a large army, so he himself came under the control of the army. Then came the sound of a large cannon being fired.

At first, the Delhiites did not extend a helping hand to the insurgents, but in some quarters they were opposed. Mehboob Farooqi, a well-known historian and author of the famous book 'Basij 1857: Voices of Delhi', explains that 'people were angry and people did not want to, and this was not an unheard of thing and we cannot draw any conclusions from it. That Delhiites did not want to fight against the British.

For one thing, every man would want to fight against the British at his own expense. No one would want 40 soldiers to come and sit on top of your house in the fight against the British.

When we were fighting the war of independence with Mahatma Gandhi or with the Congress party, with Bhagat Singh, there were tens of millions of people in India who did not want any fire in their house or the police in their house. Come on The same is true of 1857.

It is said that these incidents caused a lot of turmoil in the lives of Delhiites but Mehboob Farooqi believes that despite all the chaos, the system was still in place.

"It's said about 1857 that there was a lot of chaos, a lot of chaos, no organization, no control, no structure, but I'm trying to say that in my book," he said. That was never the case, there is control, there is order, there is structure. But it is obvious that if 70-80 thousand soldiers come among 1.5 lakh citizens, some kind of chaos will spread. What will happen to the city if 3 million soldiers come and sit in the population of Delhi today?

But despite this, what is very strange and strange is that if the Commander-in-Chief is telling Kotwal to catch the four soldiers who did not go on duty, and the four soldiers are caught and they come. And if they apologize, I think that's a great discipline. ‘

If you need four hundred beds on the battlefield and four hundred beds are being provided to you, this is a way of supply, it is not coming from the air, someone said, someone went, someone brought it and immediately Was paid. This is an example that fighting is not just about soldiers. Fighting When you fight, even today, if you need sackcloth, you need water, you need soil, you need heavy, you need fork, you need labor, they are all four laborers with one soldier. Where were they all coming from? '

On the morning of May 12, Delhi was completely emptied of the British, but a few British women took refuge in some rooms near the fort's kitchen. The rebels killed all of them despite the king's opposition.

Rana Safavi says that when they attacked and attacked the British on 11th and 12th, many British had fled the city at that time and they even killed many. Some women took refuge in the fort. There they killed 56 people in hostilities. Most of them were women and children, including one or two men.

When the trial against Bahadur Shah Zafar took place, the biggest charge against him was that he killed him. However, if you read Zaheer Dehlavi's book, you will find that there were eyewitnesses in the fort at the time of the 1857 mutiny. They say that the king had said a lot that it is not written in any religion that you should kill innocent people.

But after a few days, the rebels' footsteps began to falter and the British, driven out of Delhi, returned. The troops from Anbala turned the tide and the British would once again enter Delhi.

  Two rebels are executed on May 10, 1857

In 1857, however, there was chaos, and even if you are fighting a massive world power and superpower, we cannot expect the city to continue as it was. Obviously, there was an atmosphere of intense terror in the city, there was an atmosphere of suspicion, if there was a fight going on, there would be such an atmosphere.

What is even more significant is what happened after 1857, the way the city and its citizens were oppressed after 1857, and all the people of the city were kept out of the city of Khidr for six months. They stayed open for months in the winter and in the rain, and their houses were looted.

Mirza Ghalib was so horrified that he wrote a total of 11 ghazals in the remaining 12 years of his life since 1857. That is, not a single ghazal of a year comes out. So the poet Mirza Ghalib and the artist Mirza Ghalib or whatever that whole consignment ended after 1857. 'Since 1857, Indians have never been able to meet or speak to the British with the confidence that they had before. The battle of 1857 was the last battle fought by the Indians on their own terms. This does not mean on our weapons, but on our mental conditions, our psychological conditions.

What they see is a smile on their faces

They think the patient is well

Bahadur Shah Zafar sat on his palanquin from behind the Red Fort and first went to the shrine of Hazrat Nizamuddin and then to the tomb of Humayun. There, on September 18, 1857, he was arrested by Captain William Hutson.

He later wrote in a letter to CP Saunders: "The king, Mirza Elahi Bakhsh and Maulvi came out on a palanquin. Behind him, Begum went out with her son Mirza Jawan Bakht and father Mirza Qali Khan. Then the palanquins stopped and then the king sent a message that he wanted to hear from me that his life would be spared.

I got off my horse and I assured the king and his wife that we guarantee your life provided no effort is made to save you. I also told him that he would not be disrespected and that his dignity would be upheld.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was spared but his three sons were shot dead at Point Blank Range. The king was kept like a simple prisoner in a cell in the Red Fort.

Lieutenant Charles Griffith, who was stationed there at the time, wrote in his book, Sage of Yogurt: He had a long white beard that reached to his stomach. He was wearing a white cloth and a clean tie of the same color. Behind them stood two artillerymen who were fanning themselves with peacock feathers. Not a word came out of his mouth, his eyes were fixed on the ground.

Bahadur Shah Zafar

A British officer was sitting on another bed three feet away from the king. On either side of them stood English oranges with bayonets. They were ordered to kill the king immediately with their own hands if they tried to save him.

King Bahadur Shah Zafar was so disrespected that groups of British people used to come to see how Bahadur Shah Zafar looked.

Since the capture of Bahadur Shah Zafar, he was kept in a cell of the Red Fort where the British tourists used to come and see him in the same way as you go to see the Red Fort today. Bahadur Shah Zafar).

 So the man who was the king of India in Delhi, it is obvious that he spent the rest of the year longing for his death. From here he was sent to Rangoon and around him the king of Rangoon was sent to Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

It was the British rule all over the world that the trade of kings was going on here and there. His last days are sad and painful. To which he said, "How unfortunate is Zafar for burial ..." Not even two yards of land was found in Koi Yar.

What happened to them, I think, happened to them during and after the year 57. What could be worse than the fact that you have kept the Timurid successor and king of India in a cell and British women and children are coming to see that it was good (Bahadur Shah Zafar) -! 

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MOTHER DAY

The woman who founded International Mother's Day regretted it

(Anna Jarvis)

Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year in different countries around the world, but the woman who celebrates this day (Anna Jarvis)

If she were alive today, she would approve of celebrating this day on a small scale, given the circumstances of this year.

The commercialization of the day had frightened them so much that they even campaigned for its abolition.

When Elizabeth Burr received a phone call a few days ago asking about her family history, she initially thought there was a problem. "I thought my identity was stolen and I will never get my money back," he said.

In fact, the call came from a family history researcher looking for Anna Jarvis' surviving relatives. Anna Jarvis is the same woman who founded Mother's Day in the United States a century ago.

Anna Jarvis was one of her parents' 13 children, of whom only four reached puberty. His older brother was the only one to have children of his own. Many of their children also died at an early age and all of them died of tuberculosis. His last direct heir died in the 1980s.

So Elizabeth Zetland of My Heritage decided to look for her first cousins, and that's why she turned her attention to Elizabeth Burr.

International Mother's Day "You trusted when no one did"

Anna Jarvis was inspired to celebrate a special day for her mother by her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis.

When Elizabeth was assured that her savings were safe, she told My Heritage the wonderful news that her father and aunts did not celebrate Mother's Day when they were growing up. He was doing it out of respect for those who always felt that his idea had been hijacked for commercial gain.

Anna Jarvis was inspired to celebrate a special day for her mother by her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis.

Historian Catherine Antolini says Mrs. Jarvis spent her life mobilizing mothers to care for their children and she wanted mothers to be recognized and appreciated.

"I hope and pray that one day someone will lay the foundation for Mother's Day so that the unparalleled service they render to humanity in all walks of life will be appreciated," said Mrs. Jarios.

She was very active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, where she ran the Mother's Day Work Club from 1858 to deal with infant and child mortality because of the diseases in the community in Grafton, West Virginia. Was a devastated community.

In these work clubs, mothers were taught hygiene and hygiene, such as the importance of boiling drinking water. Organizers provided medicine and other supplies to sick families, and when needed, the entire family was separated and quarantined to protect them from infectious diseases.

Anatolyn, a professor at Wesleyan College in West Virginia, says Mrs. Jarvis herself lost nine children, including five during the American Civil War (1861-1865). It was also caused by diseases.

Antolini says that when Mrs. Jarvis died in 1905, she was surrounded by her four surviving children. Meanwhile, the grieving Anna had vowed to fulfill her mother's dream, even though she had a very different idea about a memorable day like Mother's Day.

While Mrs. Jarvis wanted to celebrate mothers for the sake of improving the lives of others, Anna had the idea of ​​a devoted daughter. Her motto for Mother's Day was "Celebrate for the best mother in the world who is your mother." That is why the place of mothers is mother, that is, the epistrophy in the mother's KS is before the SK and not later.

"Anna saw the holiday as a return home, a day when you honor your mother, honor the woman who dedicated her life to you," says Aitolini. Of

(Mother's Day)

The fourth Sunday in Lent, UK, has long been celebrated as Modern Sunday. In fact, those who leave home on this day return to their 'Mother Church' to meet their parents there.

In 1920, Constance Pensook Smith, a woman from Nottinghamshire, launched a campaign to revive Mothering Sunday's traditions, fearing that secular American Mother's Day would end Christian Mothering Sunday.

The second Sunday in May, chosen by Anna Jarvis, has been adopted by many countries as Mother's Day, but other dates are also celebrated in many places.

It was a message that touched everyone and reached the churches. Antolini says choosing Sunday as Mother's Day was Anna's smart decision.

hree years after Mrs. Jarvis's death, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time at Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton. Anna Jarvis chose the second Sunday in May because it usually falls around May 9, the day her mother died. On this day, Anna presented her mother's favorite flower, the White Gulnaras, to the mothers attending the celebration.

The popularity of the celebration grew every year. Even the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that soon you will no longer have to "beg, borrow or steal" for Gulnar. In 1910, Mother's Day became a public holiday in West Virginia, and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared it a national holiday.

A big factor in the success of the day was its commercial appeal. "Although Anna never wanted this day to be commercialized, it quickly became a market," says Antolini. The flower industry, the greeting card industry and the candy industry all played a role in its promotion

But this is not exactly what Anna wanted.

When the price of carnations skyrocketed, he issued a press release condemning the florists: Am I bent on ruining one of the best movements and celebrations of the best, goodness and truth? '

Until 1920, she was urging people not to buy flowers.

Although Anna Jarvis never wanted this day to be commercialized, it soon became a market. The flower industry, the greeting card industry and the candy industry all played a role in its promotion.

Antolini says she was angry with any organization that used the day she invented for anything other than its originality, emotional attachment and purpose. It also included charities that used the day to raise funds, even if the money was meant to help poor mothers.

Aitolini says it was a day to celebrate mothers, not to feel sorry for them because they were poor. In addition, some charities were not using the money as promised for poor mothers.

Mother's Day was even dragged into the debate over women's suffrage. Opponents of the expansion of the right to vote said that the right place for women is the home and that she is so preoccupied with being a wife and mother that she cannot be involved in politics.

Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. And he wanted women to have the right to decide the future of their children.

It seems that Anna was the only one who did not take advantage of Mother's Day. He refused to accept the money offered by the florists.

Antolini said she had never benefited from the day, although she could have done so easily. I admire them for that.

Anna and her sister Lillian, who were weak and visually impaired, lived on the legacy of their father and brother Claude. Claude used to run a taxi business in Philadelphia before he had a heart attack.

But Anna did her best to fight Mother's Day commercialization.

Even before it became a national holiday, he claimed all rights reserved on Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May, threatening legal action against anyone who marketed it without permission. Will

Antolini says that sometimes groups or industries would deliberately post-apostrophe in the spelling of mothers to avoid Anna's copyright.

A 1944 Newsweek article claimed that 33 cases were pending.

By this time she was 80 years old and almost blind, deaf and helpless and was being cared for in a Philadelphia sanatorium.

It has long been claimed that the flower and card industry secretly pays for Anna Jarvis' care, but Aitolini has never been able to confirm this.

"I'd like them to do that. It might be a good story, but it's not true," she said.When Anna was living with her sister, the last thing she did was go door-to-door in Philadelphia to get people to sign Mother's Day. Once she was admitted to the sanatorium, Lillian soon died of carbon monoxide poisoning as she tried to heat a dilapidated house. "Police claimed it was so cold there were icons hanging from the roof," Antolini said. Anna died of a heart attack in November 1948.

Jane Encifer, 86, Anna's first cousin (and Elizabeth Burr's aunt), says Anna Jarvis was obsessed with the crusade against commercialization.

"I don't think she was very rich, but she spent all the money she had," she said.

"It's a shame. I don't want people to think that his family was not taking care of him but he ended up like a beggar's grave.

They may not have been able to help him at the end of his life, but the family remembers Anna in a different way that they did not celebrate Mother's Day for many generations.

"We didn't really like Mother's Day," says Jane Encifer. And it wasn't because my mother had heard so many negative things about Mother's Day as a child. We recognize it as a good feeling, but we don't arrange a lavish dinner or a bouquet. "

As a young mother, Jane would stop in front of a Mother's Day plaque in Philadelphia and think of Anna. "It's a comforting story because there's so much love in it," says Jane. And I think something good came out of it. "People remember their mother the way they want to be remembered."

Jane admitted that she had changed her mind about the celebration. "After many generations, I have forgotten all the negative things my mother ever said about her and I get very angry if I don't hear any good news from my children on this occasion. I want them to respect me and my day. "

Jane's younger sister, Emily de Olivier, has also noticed a change in her attitude towards Mother's Day over time.

"I didn't really know about it until my own child came home from school with a Mother's Day gift for me," she says. Our mother used to say, "Every day is Mother's Day."

For a long time Emily was sad that Anna's original purpose of the day had been thwarted, but now she sends a card to her granddaughter's mother, her daughter-in-law.

Due to the lockdown this year, many families will not be able to offer flowers to their mothers or go out with them, but will celebrate Mother's Day through a video link.

But Antolini believes that Anna and her mother will be happy with such a low-level celebration. She imagines that Mrs. Jarvis, who had experienced many epidemics, would revive Mother's Day clubs to help others. And Anna will be happy with the lack of shopping opportunities that caused her original purpose to be lost in the clouds.

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