---
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: 5
number: 5
published: 1902-03
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* 5, no. 5 (March 1902): 395.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0505unse
  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: improvementera0505unse
start_page: 395
end_page: 395
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0505unse
  publication_year: 1902
  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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Notes

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NOTES.
Hurry not only spoils work, but spoils life, also. — Lubbock.
Ignorance shuts its eyes and imagines it is right.
"Truth and justice are no protection against malice. Envy is blind
to all objects save other men's happiness."
Say what you will of the coldness and selfishness of men, at the
last we long for companionship and the fellowship of our kind. We
are lost children, and when alone and the darkness begins to gather, we
long for the close relationship of the brothers and sisters we knew in
our childhood, and cry for the gentle arms that once rocked us to sleep.
Men are home-sick amid this sad, mad rush for wealth, and place and
power. The calm of the country invites and we would fain do with less
things, and go back to simplicity, and rest our tired heads in the lap of
mother nature. — Elbert Hubbard.
"Pearl of Great Price, pp. 67, 68.