---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Crocheron, George W.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 10
published: 1909-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'George W. Crocheron, "Advice," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 10 (August 1909): 775.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse
  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: improvementera12010unse
start_page: 775
end_page: 775
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12010unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Advice

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CAPE TOWN OF TODAY.                                     775

tain, the         streams on the northern slopes being collected in large
reservoirs from which the water is conveyed in cast-iron pipes for
miles to the city reservoirs.
        Cape Town boasts of one
of   the         most beautiful    city
halls       in    the world.      It   is

located in Darling Street just
opposite          the parade ground
and is          130 feet long by 62
feet in breadth and 55 feet
to the square, and construct-
ed of grey granite, trimmed
with        a     white,   soft   stone        HH^HHH                             .'"

which gives it a very pictur-
                                                       City Hall, Cape Town.
esque appearance.
        The illustration shows Table Mountain in the background with a
snow-white cloud— known as the "Table Cloth."
        Cape Town is truly a metropolitan city, and all the fashions
of New York,    London and Paris can be seen at evening prom-
enades, reminding one of our                 own crowded streets at conference
times.
        There are many other grand and expensive buildings which
adorn this important sea-port town, among which are several life
insurance buildings of American companies.
        Of course, the prevailing customs here are English.
        I    trust   what has been said will serve to show that African
cities are        modern and up-to-date, rivaling those found in other
new countries.
Woodstock, Cape Colony, Africa.

                                        ADVICE.
     Let not the keenness of your mental vision become dulled by the use of tea,
coffee, tobacco and alcoholic stimulants.      Do not let them dam up the stream of pure
thought, but let it flow on and on unceasingly!         Let not selfishness for personal
gain control your sense of justice.         Do not hazard your opinion on a matter until
you have thoroughly examined the subject from the standpoint of reason, logic,
and the stern rules of good, common sense.
                                                          George W. Crocheron.