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By the 1920s, Anna Jarvis had become soured by the commercialization of the holiday.

She incorporated herself as the Mother ’ s Day International Association, trademarked the phrases " second Sunday in May " and " Mother's Day ", and was once arrested for disturbing the peace.

She and her sister Ellsinore spent their family inheritance campaigning against what the holiday had become.

Both died in poverty.

According to her New York Times obituary, Jarvis became embittered because too many people sent their mothers a printed greeting card.

As she said,