--- 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: 9 number: 4 published: 1906-02 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "How to Be Happy," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 4 (February 1906): 272.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse 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: improvementera0904unse start_page: 272 end_page: 272 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-02) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0904unse publication_year: 1906 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 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # How to Be Happy HOW TO BE HAPPY.• It is envy and ambition that make us miserable. We often discover that we want things by seeing the abundance of others. It is comparison that kindles the fire, so that in outward possessions we should look to those beneath us; but for our mental attainments let us ever strive for the highest and noblest. A thing long expected and earnestly desired, when possessed, does not always bring the happiness anticipated. Do we not get the greatest good when we make another happy? We need to love and be loved in order to be happy. Let us do what we can for our friends. We can speak of what is pleasant rather than disagreeable. We can be in sympathy with their feelings, being thoughtful and considerate. There are many lonely people about us who need our aid. Ehicourage them to open their hearts to us and talk over their troubles. They will feel the better for having disclosed them. — The Watchman.