--- 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: 18 number: 10 published: 1915-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 926–927.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse 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: improvementera18010unse start_page: 926 end_page: 927 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse publication_year: 1915 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 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # A Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons Simple Story, With Two Great Lessons Alice Moran, of Oxford, Idaho, writes the Era of an early experience in England, which taught her two important lessons "Years ago, when I was a girl living in England, I passed a pic- ture shop. Something attracted my attention and caused me to stop and look in the window. It was a picture. On it was a long row of houses. It had been snowing very hard, and snow was thick upon the ground. Before each door of the houses was a little boy or a girl with a broom trying to brush the snow each from his own doorstep. Oh, how happy they looked, all laughing and' trying to work so hard I have often thought of the words ! that were under the picture 'If each before his own door swept, : the village would be clean.' "And while I have thought of those words, they have often taught and shown me a lesson, too. I have frequently said to myself 'Yes if I would only look at all my own faults and fail- : ; : — EDITORS' TABLE 927 ings, and not be so keen and sharp to examine my neighbors', what a better woman I would be and if all did so, how much ; !' more would we love one another "As I have thought of that picture, I have also drawn an- other lesson from it What better men and women we would be, : if we would only try with the help and strength of our Father in heaven, to love each other more, and try to work for him."