---
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: 12
published: 1903-10
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* 6, no. 12 (October 1903): 948.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0612unse
  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: improvementera0612unse
start_page: 948
end_page: 948
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1903-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0612unse
  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.
---

# In Lighter Mood

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EDITOR'S TABLE.


       CLOSE OF VOLUME VI— PROSPECTUS VOLUME VII.
       With    this   number, the Improvement Era closes              its   sixth
volume.       We will be pardoned, in looking over the achievements
of the magazine for the past six years, for the spirit of thankful-
ness and gratification that           we feel    in the success that has been

attained in its publication, both in            a literary and a financial way.
From the many testimonials that we have received, from home
readers and from abroad, we are convinced that the efforts which
have been put forth in the publication of this work have met with
great favoramong the people; and not only that, but that the
Era has accomplished much good in the spreading of the truths
of the gospel, as well as in aiding the young people to better per-
form their journey of life, and          in inspiring them to    better works.
  We urge upon our subscribers, and upon the public generally, to
renew their subscriptions immediately to Volume VII, upon the
blanks that will be sent them, and also                 ask the officers to use
energetic efforts to obtain           new subscribers.     By a glance at the
prospectus which is found in this number, and which gives in de-
tail   something about the magazine and the special features of
Volume VII, the reader will be convinced, as we are, that the
coming volume will be among the most interesting that have
been published, and            he will   be inspired with the       desire   not
only    to   continue    his    own    subscription,    but to   obtain     other
subscribers to help the good work along.
       It is the aim of the General Board to make the Era a suitable
and lively exponent of the Mutual Improvement cause among the
young people of        Zion, and in addition to provide reading matter