---
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: 10
published: 1905-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Memory System," *Improvement Era* 8, no. 10 (August 1905): 760.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0810unse
  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: improvementera0810unse
start_page: 760
end_page: 760
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0810unse
  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.
---

# A Memory System

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760                         IMP RO YEMENI ERA.
      "And you are      to    be   — my wife?     Will you marry an old
bachelor, and a bishop?"
      They said no more, and I guess that he was giving her a kiss;
so I just stole away.  I could trust our bishop. But I could guess
how much he'd love Saltair after that.
      Even James was         satisfied   with the bishop's choice.      Who
could be otherwise?
   Salt Lake City, Utali.
                            A MEMORY SYSTEM.
                 Forget each kindness that you do
                   As soon as you have done it;
                 Forget the praise that falls to you
                  The moment you have won it;
                Forget the slander that you hear
                   Before you can repeat it,
                 Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer,
                    Wherever you may meet it.
                 Eemember every kindness done
                   To vou, whate'er its measure;
                 Eem.ember praise by others won.
                   And pass it on with pleasure;
                 Remember every promise made,
                   And keep it to the letter;
                 Remember those who lend you aid,
                   And be a grateful debtor.
                Remember all the happiness
                  That comes your way in living;
                Forget each worry and distress,
                   Be hopeful and forgiving;
                Remember good, remember truth,
                   Rem.ember heaven's above you,
                And you will find, through age and youth.
                   True joys, and hearts to love you.
                                                   youth's Companion.