--- 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: 10 published: 1903-08 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. 10 (August 1903): 787.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0610unse 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: improvementera0610unse start_page: 787 end_page: 787 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0610unse 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 NOTES. Success treads on the heels of every right effort. Samuel Smiles. Life becomes fuller and fuller, richer and richer, more and more sensitive and responsive to an ever-widening environment, as we rise in the chain of being. Henry Drummond. Life comes in large, generous measure to the even-minded and happy- hearted who greet each new day with a smile of expectancy, hopeful, trusting, exulting in the good it brings. To those others, — well, the long faces tell the story. A squall caug'^t a party of tourists on a lake in Scotland, and threat- ened to capsize their boat. When it seemed that the crisis had really come, the largest and strongest man in the party, in a state of intense fear, said, "Let us pray." "No, no, my man!" shouted the bluff old boat- man, "let the little man pray. You take an oar." There are some things that do not get worn out by being rubbed; they only get brighter; the gospel is one of these things. Its power is in it, and a wide awake man can always find it. It will never become stale to the human taste until the human soul changes its constitutional make-up, and becomes something entirely different from its present self. —Sheldon. The Sun^s advice to you, boy, would be, to pick some trade that you think you are fitted for, put on some old clothes, and tell them that you want to begin at the bottom and learn it clear to the top, and then don't you ever miss a note or shirk anything, and when you are gradu- ated you are in a position to teach others. There is no trade that you can learn that will let you remain at the top and keep clean and make you easy except that of inheriting a fortune; but that trade is already overrun and there are few openings. Learn something, and learn it well, and when you are at the head of a business, with gray in your hair, you can enjoy thinking of the days you were dirty and disgusted. Peck's Sun.