---
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: 8
published: 1902-06
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* 5, no. 8 (June 1902): 636.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0508unse
  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: improvementera0508unse
start_page: 636
end_page: 636
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-06)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0508unse
  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.
---

# In Lighter Mood

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IN LIGHTER MOOD.


     He:    "My train goes in fifteen minutes.      Can you not give me one
ray of hope before I leave you forever?"
     She; "Er   — that clock   is   half an hour fast "   Brooklyn Life.



     Papa:    "See that spider," my boy, spinning his web.        Is it not won-
                                                                               -

derful?  Do you reflect that, try as he may, no man could spin that web?'
     Johnny: "What of it?     See me spin this top! Do you reflect that,
try as he may, no spider could spin this top."        Tit-Bits.




     The following conversation took place in a certain well-known theo-
logical college:
    "You are the greatest dunce I ever met with," said the professor.
"Now, I don't believe that you could repeat to me two texts of Scripture
correctly."
     "Yes, I can."
     "Well, do it."
     The student, with much feeling and thoughtful consideration,          said:
     "He departed and went and hanged himself."
     Here the student paused, and then continued:
     "Go thou and do likewise."



    We laugh at Sam Walter Foss's humorous picture of the worrying
man, yet how many of us make ourselves miserable over troubles just as
farfetched as this:

          "The sun's heat will give out in ten thousand years more,"
                      And he worried about it;
          "It will sure give out then, if it doesn't before,"
                      And he worried about it;
          It would surely give out, so the scientists said,

          In all the scientific books that he read,
          And the whole mighty universe then would be dead*
                     And he worried about it.