---
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: 19
number: 3
published: 1916-01
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* 19, no. 3 (January 1916).
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1903unse
  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: improvementera1903unse
curator_note: Source verified against the Internet Archive scan and masthead (vol. XIX, no. 3). Advertisements and advertising-only leaves are omitted; editorial frontispieces and image-only leaves are described here.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1903unse
  publication_year: 1916
  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 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Improvement Era, January 1916

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## Contents

- Joseph F. Smith, Jr., “Is Man Immortal?,” 193.
- Orson F. Whitney, “Blessings from the Tragedies of Life,” 200.
- Ida Stewart Peay, “Jed at the Old Academy,” 202.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Midsummer on the Wasatch Summits,” 212.
- Delbert W. Parratt, “Outlines for Scout Workers,” 214.
- Elsie C. Carroll, “Live Today,” 218.
- Joseph M. Tanner, “Thoughts of a Farmer,” 220.
- Robert C. Webb, “Human Nature Not Explained by Evolution,” 221.
- American Highway Association, “Good Roads,” 234.
- John H. Taylor, “For the Consideration of Parents,” 237.
- Elizabeth Cannon Porter, “Mother Passes Through the Shadows,” 241.
- Lydia D. Alder, “The Island of Samos,” 249.
- Mosiah Hall, “Waste in Spelling,” 253.
- E. L. Roberts, “Social Dancing and Its Direction,” 255.
- Frank S. Harris, “Federal Aid to Vocational Education,” 259.
- James E. Talmage, “Even the Winds and the Sea Obey Him,” 261.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Editors' Table,” 264.
- P. Joseph Jensen, “Priesthood Quorums' Table,” 273.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work,” 276.
- Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events,” 282.