父亲节的由来

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     每年六月的第三个星期日是“父亲节”（Father's Day），和“母亲节”一样，“父亲节”也起源于美国。1909年，一位名叫多伍德的女士在美国首都华盛顿特区（Washington D．C．）传播“母亲节”。在此期间，她想到了父亲。在她很小的时候，母亲离开了人世，父亲不得不艰难地独自担负起抚养孩子的家庭重担。过去的情景，又一幕幕地在她的脑海里浮现。多伍德女士深深地感到设立父亲节的必要。她向社会呼吁，引起了人们的积极响应，六月的第三个星期日被选为“父亲节”。在1910年6月，美国庆祝了第一个“父亲节”。当时凡是父亲还健在的人都在胸前佩戴一朵红玫瑰花，以表达对父亲的敬意；而父亲已故去的人，则佩戴一朵白玫瑰花，以此表达对父亲的无限怀念和哀思。

1927年，卡尔文·柯立芝总统办公室对这一节日表示了赞同。从此，“父亲节”为越来越多的人所知道并流传下来。同学们，你们可曾想到在“父亲节”来临之时，为辛勤操劳的父亲送点礼物吗？

Father's Day
Third Sunday in June

 
The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.

The origin of Father's Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father's Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington.
The president of the Chicago branch（分部）of the Lions' Club, Harry Meek, is said to have celebrated the first Father's Day with his organization in 1915; and the day that they chose was the third Sunday in June, the closest date to Meek's own birthday!

Regardless of when the first true Father's Day occurred, the strongest promoter of the holiday was Mrs. Bruce John Dodd of Spokane, Washington. Mrs. Dodd felt that she had an outstanding father. He was a veteran of the Civil War. His wife had died young, and he had raised six children without their mother.

In 1909, Mrs. Dodd approached her own minister and others in Spokane about having a church service dedicated to fathers on June 5, her father's birthday. That date was too soon for her minister to prepare the service, so he spoke a few weeks later on June 19th. From then on, the state of Washington celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart.

States and organizations began lobbying（游说）Congress to declare an annual Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations." Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June.

When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are whimsical（奇形怪状的，异想天开的）so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.

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