--- 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: 2 number: 9 published: 1899-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "In Lighter Mood," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 9 (July 1899): 706.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse 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: improvementera29unse start_page: 706 end_page: 706 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera29unse publication_year: 1899 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 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In Lighter Mood " IN LIGHTER MOOD. "I resolved to save up a little money for a rainy day. That after- — noon I placed a ten-dollar note safely away, and the next day it rained." * « « "How many of these sheep got out of here?" asked the angry farmer. "I don't know," replied the new hired man, rubbing his eyes. "After I watched five or six of 'em jump over the fence I seemed to lose the count. That always puts me to sleep." « « * A girl who had been very clever at college came home the other day and said to her mother: "Mother, I've graduated; but now I must inform myself in psychology, philology, bibli — "Just wait a minute," said the mother. "I have arranged for you a thorough course in roastology, boilology, stitchology, daruology, patchology and general domesticology. Now get on your apron and pluck that chicken." * * * A boy's essay on corns. Corns are of two kinds —vegetable and animal. Vegetable corn grows in rows; animal corn grows on toes. There is the unicorn, Capricorn, corn dodger, field corn, and the corn that you feel the most. It is said, we believe, that gophers like corn; but persons having corns do — not like to "go fur" if they can help it. Corns have kernels, and some colonels have corns. Vegetable corn grows on ears, but animal corns grow on the feet. Folks that have corns sometimes send for a doctor,, and if the doctor is corned, it would be better if they had not sent for him. The doctor says that corns are produced by tight boots and shoes,, which is probably the reason why when a man is tight they say he is corned. If a farmer manages well, he gets a good deal of corn on an acre, but we know of a farmer that has one corn that makes the biggest acher on his farm. Another kind of corn is the dodger. The way it es^ — made is very simple, and is as follows that is if you want to know: You go along the street and meet a man that you know has a corn, and a rough character, then you step on the toe that has the corn on it, and see if you don't have occasion to dodge. In that way you find out what corn dodger is.