---
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: 12
number: 10
published: 1909-08
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* 12, no. 10 (August 1909), cover, masthead, and table of contents.
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
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents are retained. The masthead identifies volume 12, number 10, dated August 1909. Unnumbered advertising leaves before the first printed editorial page and after printed p. 848 are omitted because they are advertisements; no archive leaf numbers are used.
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.
---

# *Improvement Era*, August 1909

The retained masthead identifies this as volume 12, number 10, *Improvement Era*, organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations.

## Contents

- Systematic and Persistent Work, 761
- East Side of Main Street, Salt Lake City, 767
- Cape Town of Today, 768
- Advice, 775
- Herbert Melbourne—IX, 776
- A Few Words From Japan, 782
- Hush, My Heart, 788
- Self-Control—XV. Doing Our Best at all Times, 791
- The Servile and the Chivalrous, 797
- The Garden of Thought, 803
- St. Paul’s Companions in Rome—X. Aristarchus, 804
- Tell Her Now, 808
- The Scandinavian Mission, 809
- Obscurity, 818
- Address by the General Superintendency Y. M. M. I. A., 819
- Hope, 822
- People and Places in the Orient—III. Cross-Roads of the Pacific, 823
- A Prayer, 829
- Editor’s Table—Temperance and Prohibition, 830
- New History of the Mormon Church, 833
- Messages from the Missions, 835
- Priesthood Quorums’ Table, 837
- Mutual Work, 840
- Events and Comments, 843