--- 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: 4 number: 6 published: 1901-04 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* 4, no. 6 (April 1901): 473.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0406unse 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: improvementera0406unse start_page: 473 end_page: 473 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1901-04) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0406unse publication_year: 1901 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 1901, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In Lighter Mood EDITOR'S TABLE. 471 from which we have no printed reports, and it will be seen partly what a great labor is being performed by the Latter-day Saints in preaching the Gospel, in conformity with the command: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Let all the Saints remember with faith, prayers and means, the noble army of young men and women engaged in this labor of love. The call of Apostle Heber J. Grant, who will soon visit Japan, with a view to the opening of the Gospel door to the people in the far East, is an indication that the Latter-day Saints sense the responsibility resting upon them in the promulgation of the restored Gospel to all the nations of the earth before the promised end shall come. God speed the work! NOTES. The best business man is not the graduate of the business college* or the business course of the high school, but the graduate of the classi- cal course: for to think is the duty of the business man, and the power to think is best trained by the classical course of the high school or college. The business man will learn easily enough all the details about business when its principles are mastered. Train the woman and the man to think, to appreciate, and to be righteous, then send each out to do his work, to live his life.— Charles F. Thwing. "If I had a boy, I would tell my wife and his mother: 'Don't coddle the boy; don't be always asking him if his throat feels sore, and if his head aches, and if he is sure he has not been sneezing; don't tell him that a few drops of rain on his back will be fatal; don't talk to him about dyspepsia while he is eating and enjoying the food his system craves. Let him eat; let him run; let him play; let him climb trees; let him have a place where he can hammer and whittle, to his heart's content without being warned that he will cut off his fingers.'