---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Unknown
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 2
published: 1913-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Unknown, "Why Are You Sad?," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 2 (December 1913): 101.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  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: improvementera1702unse
start_page: 101
end_page: 101
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1702unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Why Are You Sad?

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