---
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: 10
published: 1899-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Notes," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 10 (August 1899): 788.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera210unse
  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: improvementera210unse
start_page: 788
end_page: 788
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera210unse
  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.
---

# Notes

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NOTES.

       Those who succeed in making the best use of their own time also
succeed in making the best use of other people's time.

       Many a poor man leaves his sons the ability to acquire wealth,
while many a rich man leaves his without the ability to keep it.

    Many a successful man owes a good part of his prosperity to the
economy and tact of his wife, but how often does he acknowledge or
repay the debt.

       The phrase "I'm monarch of all      I    survey,'" should be rewritten to
read "Fm monarch of all I laugh at."           Even the power of idealization is
not as valuable as the power of turning off a trouble with a laugh.

       Do not wait until your parents are dead to honor them, and then
put a few flowers on their   coffins ;   but give them a few flowers while
they still live by being kind to them each day, and heeding their coun-
sel.   Remember that you live but once, and your days are but few. Do
all the good you can eachday of your lives. Make yourelves and othera
as happy as you can, and life will not be a failure.