---
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: 8
number: 4
published: 1905-02
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* 8, no. 4 (February 1905): 306.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse
  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: improvementera0804unse
start_page: 306
end_page: 306
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0804unse
  publication_year: 1905
  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 1905, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# In Lighter Mood

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IN LIUHIER MOOD. There are other charges than those of the judge. An exchange says that Albert P. Massey, attorney, tells of a stuttering man named Sisson who was arraigned before a police magistrate. "What is your name?" asked the magistrate. "S-s-s-sis-s-s-ss," began the prisoner, and then stopped. "What's that?" demanded the magistrate. "S-s-s-sis-s-sis-s-s-s," hissed the stutterer. "His name's Sisson," interrupted the policeman who had made the arrest. "He stutters." "So it seems," said the magistrate. "What's he charged with?" "I don't know, your Honor," said the policeman, "it seems to be soda-water." It often happens that people have similar, even identical.experiences • An incident illustrating this truth is related in the Woman's Home Companion: Senator Hale tells a story of two Maine farmers who met in the road one day. They stopped their teams, and the following conversation took place: "Mornin', Josh." "Mornin', John." "What did ye give yer boss thet had the botts?" "Turpentine." "Thank ye. Mornin'. " "Mornin'. A week later the farmers met in the road again. Again they stopped their teams, and then this conversation followed: "Mornin', Josh." "Mornin', John." "What did ye say ye give yer boss when it had the botts?" 'Turpentine." "So did I. It killed mine." "Mine, too." "Mornin', Josh." "Mornin', John."