In Lighter Mood

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IN LIGHTER MOOD.

They r-ad started for a stroll. "There is our minister." he said. "I'm going to ask him to join us." "To join us? Oh, George, this is so sudden! But hadn't you better speak to papa before engaging the minister, dear?" Spare Moments.

His reason. — Smithkins: "There's old Biffkins. I don't care to meet him. Let's turn this way. Last summer I requested a loan of twenty dollars." TifFkins: "Well, he ought to have obliged you; he's rich enough." Smithkins: "The trouble is, he did!" Smart Set.

"Now, boys," said a Sunday school teacher, addressing the juvenile , class,"can either of you tell me anything about Good Friday?" "Yes, ma'am, I can," replied the boy at the foot of the class. "He was the fellow that done the housework for Robinson Crusoe." Chicago Journal

A Kansas paper says the inventor of a new feeding bottle for in- fants sent out the following among his directions for using: When the baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place under the hydrant. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk it should be boiled.

When a certain- schoolmaster entered the temple of learning one morning he read on the blackboard the touching legend: "Our teacher is a donkey." The pupils expected there would be a combined cyclone and earthquake; but the master contented himself with adding the word "driver" to the legend.

Said George to Pat: "Well, Pat, I think we could earn some money if I had a piece of string."

"An' sure for what?" "To take you around and exhibit you for a monkey," replied George. "Faith, an' sure you'd want another man, George." "What for, Pat?" "Why, to tell the people which end the monkey was on."

OUR WORK. MISSIONARY WORK.— CHANGE IN METHOD.

At the late June conference it was decided to change the methods of doing missionary work in our associations. Officers are directed to

read carefully the following synopsis of the remarks of Elder Joseph W. McMurrin, on this subject. He spoke on "Substitute for Formal Mission- ary Work — — General Individual Work Personal Attention by Officers to Members — Arousing of Universal Patriotism," and he said in part:

Missionary work, both general and local, has formed, for a number of years, a very important part of Mutual Improvement work. Many missionaries have been called by the First Presidency and sent out, as well as the large number of local missionaries, and great good has re- sulted. How much good has been accomplished will probably never be known. As a consequence of this missionary work, considerable prestige has come to the Y. M. M. I. A. It has now been concluded to change the method of our missionary

wo nk, and in the substitutes recommended in place of formal missionary