---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 1
number: 2
published: 1897-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Editor’s Table: The Enlargement of the Era," *Improvement Era* 1, no. 2 (December 1897): 124.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera12unse
start_page: 124
end_page: 124
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1897-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12unse
  publication_year: 1897
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1897, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Editor’s Table: The Enlargement of the Era

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EDITOR'S TABLE,

THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE ERA.

This number of the Era is sixteen pages larger than the first 'issue. It is the desire of the Era's management and its editors that this enlargement shall be permanent. It is necessary in order that the magazine may have space sufficient for the accomplishment of its work. With the enlargement made permanent we shall have space for a greater variety of matter and can still continue to treat the great themes connected with the work of which the Era is the organ. Shall the enlargement of the Era be permanent? That question altogether depends upon the owners of this magazine? Who are they? Its patrons. The members of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations. If earnest work is undertaken by the offiers and members of our associations, during the next month, and the present subscription list of the Era sufficiently increased, it can be done. It is not by any means an impossible task. It can be done by a little extra effort on the part of its owners. Will you do it? We believe you will. Think what this will mean to our present subscribers. It means the addition of 176 pages to the volume they have subscribed for. It will make the Era a handsome volume of 944 pages instead of 768 pages; and with the new Manual added, which goes with the Era, as a supplement, it would make a volume of 1039 pages. But the chief advantage from the enlargement would be increased variety of matter.

We ask the owers of the magazine to think over the advantages of this proposition; and then let each one make an effort to secure another subscriber, and we are satisfied that