---
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: 10
number: 2
published: 1906-12
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* 10, no. 2 (December 1906): 151.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse
  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: improvementera1002unse
start_page: 151
end_page: 151
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse
  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

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' — — "

 IN LIGHTER MOOD.

 Mr. Hopeful — "I'm quite a near neighbor of yours now. I've taken a house by the river." Miss Golifehtly — "Oh, I hope you'll drop in some day."

 — Cora "Jack proposed to me this morning when we were automobiling. — Edna "Oh you mustn't mind. He's excusable. He only bought the machine yesterday, and didn't know what he was driving at."

 "When I was starting in business in Cleveland, " said John D. Rockefeller, "I had a bright little office boy whom I tried to keep busy, as a boy ought to be. "One hot August afternoon as I was starting out to collect a bill, I said to the little chap, 'Well, I suppose the bookkeeper has told you what to do this afternoon?' " " 'Yessir, ' piped the youngster; 'I'm to wake him up jes' as soon aa I see ' you comin' back. '

 A Boston minister once noticed a crowd of urchins clustered around a dog of doubtful pedigree. "What are you doing, my little men?" he asked with fatherly interest. "Swappin' lies," volunteered one of the boys. "The feller that tells the .

biggest one gets the purp." !' ' 'Shocking ' exclaimed the minister. ' 'Why, when I was your age I never even thought of telling an untruth." ' 'Youse win," chorused the urchins. "The dog's yours, mister."

 A new story relates that a boy said at treakfast that he knew the name of the beau sister had in the parlor last night. It was George Dont. He had heard her call him George Dont a dozen times or more. Kansas City Journal.

 The story is told of two Trenton men who hired a horse and trap for a little outing not long ago. Upon reaching their destination, the horse was unharnessed and permitted peacefully to graze while the men fished for an hour or two. When they were ready to go home, a difficulty at onc§ presented itself, inasmuch as neither of the Trentonians knew how to reharness the horse. Every effort in this direction met with dire failure, and the worst problem was properly to adjust the bit. The horse himself seemed to resent the idea of going into harness again. Finally one of the friends, in great disgust, sat down in the road. ' 'There's only one thing we can do. Bill," he said. "What's that?" asked Bill, "Wait for the foolish beast to yawn!" Outing.