--- 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: 6 number: 4 published: 1903-02 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* 6, no. 4 (February 1903): 316.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse 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: improvementera0604unse start_page: 316 end_page: 316 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0604unse publication_year: 1903 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 1903, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Notes 316 IMPROVEMENT ERA. who wish to learn something authentic of our prosperous land. Price, 75 cents. The "Beobachter" Kallender for 1903. This annual publication (288 pages), issued by J. H. Ward, Salt Lake City, editor of the oldest German newspaper between the Missouri river and the Pacific ocean, comes to hand, neat in appearance, full of information, and with a review of literature in Utah, by the editor. Elder Ward deserves great credit for his work, and also the congratula- tions of the.German people in Utah for his capable efforts in their behalf. NOTES. Dr. E. Castelli, of Washington, D. C., in the Medical Record, has recently given a very clear definition of the cause of seasickness! He says that it "is the result of the consciousness of the oscillation of the act of orientation." The remedy is much simpler; "fix your eyes upon a mirror. Why? Because eyes and mirror form one body, and the chang- ing of horizons being reflected by a surface equal in every plane, the eye'loses the consciousness of the different changes." Let a missionary try it and report to the Era. "Smoking Church Services" are the latest innovation in London, and promises to attract workingmen who have hitherto been outside the pale of religious influence. Archdeacon Wilberforce of Westminster started the movement last year by inviting the men who were fitting up the Abbey for the coronation to attend service in the cloisters during their lunch hour, and giving each man an ounce of tobacco. Many ac- cepted the invitation, and joined heartily in the services. The home and the hearthstone are the basis of a nation's greatness. Marriage is the institution blessed of all, and happy are those whose fortunes and aspirations are twined into one loving embrace, and who thus tread life's pathway. Charity to the imperfections of the other, loving patience and kindness, loyalty in sickness and in health, loving ministrations one to the other, loyalty and fortitude in adversity, and mutual joy in the hours of prosperity, all crowned with steadfast love —these are the characteristics of a happy union. Nothing is more beautiful to contemplate. Such a marriage is a benediction to all.—John H. Small.