How We Kept Mother's Day

The title of the story in hand is «How we kept Mother's Day» by Stephen Leacock. He was a famous Canadian writer of the 20th century. His stories, full of humour and sarcasm, expose the contradictions of life in modern bourgeois society. The plot of this story is built round all the members of the family. The events of the story take place at their home. In the story describes a scene of having a special celebration of Mother’s Day.

Four children and their father decided to make a great day, a holiday for all the family and to do everything they could to make the mother happy. It must have made them all realize how much their mother had done for them and all the efforts and sacrifice that she had made for their sake. So, they decided to stay home to decorate the house with flowers. It should be noted that they got their mother to make mottoes and arrange the decorations, because she always did it at Xmas. They thought it would be a nice thing to dress in their very best, so the two girls got new hats and the father had bought silk ties for himself and the boys. They were going to get the mother a new hat too, but it turned out that she seemed to really like her old grey bonnet. Well, after breakfast they were to have taken her for a beautiful drive away into the country, but on the very morning of the day they changed the plan a little bit. As a matter of fact, they felt it would be nicer for the mother to have a definite purpose, so to take her fishing was a good idea. The mother cut up some sandwiches and made up a sort of lunch and they were ready to go in the motor. As it appeared, there hardly seemed as much room in the car as they had supposed. One of them must stay at home. After a long argument it was decided that the mother would stay home and get the dinner. It turned out anyway that she didn’t care for fishing. Moreover it was just a little bit cold and fresh out-of-doors and she might take cold. Anyway, they drove away and had the loveliest day. It was quite late when they got back. The mother had to get towels, soap and clean things to put on for everybody. When everything was ready and they sat down to the grandest kind of dinner, the mother couldn’t help getting up and down fetching the things back and forward. As soon as