---
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: 17
number: 10
published: 1914-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The Put-it-offs," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 10 (August 1914): 916.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  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: improvementera17010unse
start_page: 916
end_page: 916
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  publication_year: 1914
  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 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Put-it-offs

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916                            IMPROVEMENT ERA

Fraser says of Japanese childhood may also be said of the Hopis

"Little children are the treasure flowers of life, and that which

ministers to their happiness is never considered trivial, but re-

garded as a necessary part of

family occupations." The birth

of a child is an occasion for

great rejoicing, and elaborate

religious  ceremony in the

Hopi home.

This, briefly, is the land

of poco-tiempo (pretty soon)

with its easy-going, kindly,

intensely religious, primitive

people.   Hospitable,    honest,

home-loving people they are,

with a wealth of mythology

rivaling that of Greece. They

are a conservative, peace-lov-

ing people who, if left to

themselves, will continue to

NAVAJO TWINS

work out their own problems

A freak of erosion in the Painted Desert,

Southern Utah.   These mighty wind-carved      of government in their own

pillars of colored sandstone left their sym-

metrical columns many feet in the air as if

way and live peacefully and

shaped by some titanic hand.                   happily in their mesa homes.

(to be continued.)

The Put-it-offs

"My friend, have you heard of the town of Yawn,

On the banks of the river Slow,

Where blooms the Wait-a-while flower fair,

Where the Sometime-or-other scents the air,

And the soft Goeasys grow?

It lies in the valley ofWhat's-the-use,

In the province of Let-it-slide.

That tired feeling is native there,

It's the home of the listless, "I don't

care,"

Where the Putitoffs abide."

-Good Citizenship.