--- 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: 12 published: 1906-10 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "In Lighter Mood," *Improvement Era* 9, no. 12 (October 1906): 978.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0912unse 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: improvementera0912unse start_page: 978 end_page: 978 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-10) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0912unse 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. --- # In Lighter Mood — — ' — IN LIGHTER MOOD. "What is Jigson in mawning for, do you know?" "It's eithaw faw his bwothaw aw his dawg; one of 'era died lawst week, but I weally fawget which it was." Not Always. — "Your bookkeeper seems to be a bright young woman." ' ' 'Yes ; but she has some very eccentric ideas. "Indeed?" "Yes. She enters our messenger boy's wages as 'running expenses.' " Tit-Bits. Tommy seemed to be engaged with some problem. "Papa," he said, " 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you,' — that's the Golden Rule, isn't it, papa?" "Yes, my son." "And it's puffickly right to follow the Golden Rule, isn't it, papa?" "Yes, indeed." Tommy rose, went to the cupboard, and returned with a knife and a large apple pie. The latter he placed before his astonished sire with great solemnity. "Eat it, papa!" he said. Two Irish farmers who had not seen each other for a long time met at a fair. They had a lot of things to tell each other. "Sure, it's married I am," said Murphy. "You don't tell me so," said Moran. "Faix, yes," said Murphy, "and I've got a fine healthy bhoy which the neighbors say is the very picture of me." Moran looked for a moment at Murphy, who was not, to say the least, re- markable for his good looks, and then said, "Och, well, what is the harum so long as the child's healthy." Dublin Gazette. • Hon. Joseph H. Choate observed recently that of all the witty men he had met during his stay in London the one whose quickness of humorous perception most nearly approached the American type was the clergyman, the late Dean Hole. Mr. Choate says that he was one of a party with Dean Hole to cross the Channel after a visit to the Continent. The voyage had been a rough one, and the dean had suffered greatly during the whole trip. When the party landed at Dover, the dean, in strolling about the railway station, chanced to stop before a printed notice of the company's rules pasted on the wall. As Mr. Choate came up, the dean said: "Mr. Ambassador, it occurs to me that after that stormy voyage of ours we have at least one advantage in making the subsequent trip to London." "How so?" asked Mr. Choate. "Why," replied the dean, "I perceive by this notice that the company carries returning empties at reduced rates." Harper's Weekly.