---
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: 11
number: 4
published: 1908-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, *Improvement Era* 11, no. 4 (February 1908).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse
  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: improvementera1104unse
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and contents are retained as bibliographic matter. The editorial run is printed pp. 241–320; the unnumbered advertising leaves before and after that run are omitted under the Improvement Era advertising policy.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1104unse
  publication_year: 1908
  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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# *Improvement Era*, February 1908

*Improvement Era*. Volume 11, no. 4. February 1908. Organ of the Seventies and Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- The Western Gateway of Civilization: A Neglected Historical Spot, 241.
- Good and Evil Influences, 252.
- The Visitors: A Poem, 256.
- Groote Schuur—A Sketch, 257.
- Thoughts, the Master Power, 267.
- Edna Tide: A Poem, 269.
- Romance of a Missionary—IV. In the Police Court, 270.
- Let Each Man Learn to Know Himself: A Poem, 278.
- Thoughts of a Farmer—IV. By-Products, 279.
- Wasatch Mountains—Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon, Utah, 280.
- How Advantages, Temporal and Spiritual, Are Lost, 281.
- Strive with Self: A Poem, 283.
- Guardianship in Religion and Other Classes, 284.
- An Opinion on Home and Other Fiction, 287.
- The World’s Great Religions—II. Buddhism, 290.
- The Boy Problem—II. Some Suggestions for Its Solution, 296.
- February Twenty-Second: A Poem, 299.
- Editor’s Table—The Home and the Child, 300.
- A Plea for Pure Air, 303.
- Physical Exercise and the M. I. A., 305.
- Seventy’s Council Table, 306.
- Messages from the Missions, 308.
- Mutual Work, 309.
- An “Era” in Every Home, 309.
- Our Reading Course, 310.
- The Mutual Farthest North, 312.
- Summer Work, 312.
- The Gospel Call: Hymn Set to Music, 313.
- Events and Comments, 315.