---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Associations, Young Men’s Mutual Improvement
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 12
number: 12
published: 1909-10
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Close of Volume Twelve," *Improvement Era* 12, no. 12 (October 1909): 993.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12012unse
  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: improvementera12012unse
start_page: 993
end_page: 993
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-10)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera12012unse
  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.
---

# Close of Volume Twelve

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EDITOR'S TABLE.                                 993

between right and wrong conduct, which, from lack of social educa-
tion many fail to comprehend to the detriment of .their own welfare
    ,



and the happiness of their fellows. There should be & fine discrimi-
nation in these things,and extremes should be avoided. It.is well-bal-
anced, wisdom-guided acts that should characterize our conduct.
"Young ladies," he says, "should remember that a formal intro-
duction by a mere friend to some total stranger, for the evening's
dance, is not to be considered an introduction                  that    makes such
acquaintance permanent," although no gentleman should introduce
anyone to a lady who           is   not worthy of her permanent acquaint-
ance.     "It   is the   lady's duty or privilege to recognize the formal
acquaintance first, and his privilege to speak or raise the hat only
after she has recognized him."             There   is   as much impropriety in
being too free and intimate, as in being too reserved, discourteous,
seclusive and cold.          Well-balanced conduct         is    best   and always
proper.
        This subject is worthy of due consideration, and we should all
 remember that the aim of the Latter-day Saints is to follow the in-
 junction that, if there       is   anything lovely or of good report or
 praiseworthy, we seek after these things; and we believe in doing
 good to all men.
                                                          Joseph F. Smith.



                       CLOSE OF VOLUME TWELVE.

        With     number another volume of the Improvement Era
                this
 comes to an end.    We begin the new year of the Era under very
 favorable conditions.  The editors are thankful to the many writ-
 ers who have          contributed to make the past volume a success in a
 literary way and to hosts of young men in the settlements of the
                  ;



 Saints who, by their labors, have made it financially possible to
 print such a splendid magazine as the Era has been in the past.
  We solicit a continuation of these efforts, and promise to add our
  mite to make the magazine better and more desirable than ever in
  the year to come.
         Since the Era is the       organ of the priesthood quorums,
                                    official

  we solicit the co-operation of the presidents of stakes and bishops