--- 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: 5 published: 1905-03 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* 8, no. 5 (March 1905): 389.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0805unse 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: improvementera0805unse start_page: 389 end_page: 389 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0805unse 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. --- # Notes NOTES. A man feels larger every time he surmounts an obstacle which, per. haps, seemed insurmountable. There is a sense of a'M'-l power in every victory, a feeling of enlargement at the very thought of overcoming. Set yourself earnestly to see what you were made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it; and the loftier your purpose is, the more sure you will be to make the world richer with every enrichment of yourself.—Phillips Brooks. Let young people know that the way to purity, character and honor is through reverence to God and his word, obedience to parents, devotion to the church, and patriotism to their country. Study the life of the Galilean to see these virtues in their simplicity and perfection.—Epworth Era. When Patti was asked why she sang "Annie Laurie," "The Last Rose of Summer," "Home, Sweet Home," and the other old songs rather than anything new, she said: 'The people demand the old songs. They prefer them to anything that is to be found in the grand operas. They reach the heart. That is the secret." What boys will need when they become men is clean-cut, well balanced, well regulated minds, for after all it is the mind that rules. A man with a clean-cut, dependable mind is not going to permit his hands to do what they ought not to do, nor his feet to go where they ought not to go. A well educated man, other things being equal, draws a straighter line than doe3 an ignorant man. A well educated man drives a straighter furrow with a plow than does an ignorant man. The more mental training you get the more masterful man you will become. Quit school now if you must, but know this, that when you do so you say to yourself, "1 must run the chance of taking second or third place in the world's race. I quit school now in order to get into work more suited to my tastes, but in doing so I understand that I handicap myself forever." I do not know, boys, of a single occupation in life in which an ed" ucation will not improve your chance3 for success.—American Boy.