--- 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: 11 published: 1905-09 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. 11 (September 1905): 870.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse 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: improvementera0811unse start_page: 870 end_page: 870 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1905-09) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0811unse 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. Here you have it. An Indian was describing the habits of his tribe, and said: "Indian great smoker; smokin' great help to laziness." Among the battle monuments to be erected by the Japanese, in memory of their many victories over Russia, will be an enormous light- house on Okeno island, in the Strait of Corea, to commemorate the battle of the Sea of Japan. It is to be hoped though scarcely realized that all the monuments will be as useful as this one. Thomas W. Lawson was once visited in his Boston office by a young woman who came laden with all sorts of college diplomas and gilt-edged references. It so happened that Mr. Lawson needed a temporary secre- tary and engaged her on the spot. When, later in the day, the young woman handed Mr. Lawson a number of letters that he had dictated,they were chiefly remarkable for their hideous orthography. He called the girl'sattention to her blunders, whereupon she replied with a giggle: "Really, now, I think I must have been bewitched." "Quite so," said Mr. Lawson; "some fairy has evidently cast a bad spell over you." This story affords a moral to the average stenographer and type- writer, for if there is anything which exasperates a business or a pro- fessional man it is the inability of his amenuensis to spell correctly. Success.