---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Selected
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: 'Selected, "A Remedy for Worry," *Improvement Era* 5, no. 5 (March 1902): 367.'
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: 367
end_page: 367
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.
---

# A Remedy for Worry

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A REMEDY FOR WORRY.
"Ah, neighbor," said one farmer, dolefully, to another, "how
unfortunate you and I have been! I've done nothing but fret ever
since our potatoes were destroyed by that untimely frost. But
how's this?" he asked in amazement, — "you seem to have a fine,
healthy crop coming up now."
"Why, yes," was the reply; "I planted those directly after I
found the first crop was destroyed."
"What! and they're coming up already?"
"Yes,, while you were fretting, I was working. I put off my
fretting till I'd mended the loss."
"Why, then, you've no need to fret at all."
"True, and that's the very reason why I don't!"