--- 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: 3 number: 3 published: 1900-01 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* 3, no. 3 (January 1900): 235.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse 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: improvementera33unse start_page: 235 end_page: 235 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1900-01) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera33unse publication_year: 1900 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 1900, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In Lighter Mood " IN LIGHTER MOOD. Mr. Employer: "You put that note where it will be sure to attract Smith's attention when he comes in, didn't you?" "Yes, sir; stuck a pin through it and put it on his Office Boy: I chair." * * * bed so soon?" "How is this, John; what made you put the children to asked his wife, on her return home. "Because they disturbed me in my writing, my dear." "And did they allow you to undress them quietly?" dreadfully." "No, that one in the corner screamed "Why, bless me, "That one in the corner?" She goes and peeps. Freddie Squall, from next door!" what have you done, John? That's * * * familiar words, said A little boy with an interest in the meaning of to his mother: "What is the meaning of 'civil?' "Kind and polite," answered the mother. face. Then he said: A puzzled look brooded for a second on the boy's once?" "Was it a kind and polite war that was in this country * * * cornet player in one of his Herr Scheel tells of a conscientious rendering of a well-known passage. orchestras who gave an unexpected "Let's have that over again," requested Scheel, surprised at hearing a note which was not in the score. "What are you playing? The note was sounded again and again. he asked at last. <