--- 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: 9 published: 1907-07 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. 9 (July 1907): 758.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse 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: improvementera1009unse start_page: 758 end_page: 758 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1009unse publication_year: 1907 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 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # In Lighter Mood IN LIGHTER MOOD. "Explain," said the teacher to the class, "the difference between 'the quick and 'the dead.' ma'am," answered Johnnie, " the quick is them as gets out of the "Please, way of motor-cars, and the dead is them as doesn't." Tit-Bits. A Baltimore woman who had "a perfect treasure of a cook," was horrified recently when Maggie came to her saying: "Please, mum, I'mgivin' ye a wake's notice." "Why, Maggie!" exclaimed the lady of the house, "this is a surprise! Aren't you satisfied here? Do you hope to better yourself?" "Well, no, mum," responded Maggie. "Tis not exactly that. ' The fact is, mum, I'm going to get married." "Biddy," said Pat timidly, "did ye iver think o' marryin'?" "Shure, now," said Biddy, looking demurely at her shoe — "shure, now, the subject has niver entered me mind at all, at all." "It's sorry Oi am," said Pat, and he turned away. "Wan minute, Pat," said Biddy softly. "Ye've set me thinkin'." Taeoma Ledger. He (watching a number of women saying "good-by" at the wearisome end of a tea) : "Women are usually dilitory in bringing their functions to a close, ar« they not?" She. "Yes. But never in bringing their clothes to a function." With reference to the humors of country "society" reporting, Mr. Melville Stone, of the Associated Press, tells of the account of a wedding published in a Kansas paper. The story, which described the marriage in the usual flowery adjectives, con- cluded with this surprising announcement: "The bridegroom's present to the bride was a handsome diamond brooch, to- gether with many other beautiful things in cut glass." Harper's Weekly. When I see a youth with his pants turned up and his beautiful socks in view, And over one eye perched a little, round hat, with a ribbon of mauve or blue, And the fourteen rings and the seven pins that he got at his dear prep, school, Why, it strikes a chord, and I say: "Oh Lord, was I ever that big a fool?" When I see a youth with his gloves turned down and a cigarette stuck in his face, And a loud check coat and a horse-cloth vest and a half an inch wide shoe lace. And a bunch of hair that hides his ears, and line of senseless drool. Then I paw the sward, as I say: 'Oh Lord, was I ever that big a fool?" ' — The Daily Prineetonian.