--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 1 published: 1916-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Evan Stephens, "The Cheery Smile," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 1 (November 1916): 26–27.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2001unse 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: improvementera2001unse start_page: 26 end_page: 27 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2001unse 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. --- # The Cheery Smile The Cheery Smile To the Y. M. M. 1. A. Boys. Evan Stephens. -0 — —m , r - 1. Wipe out that frown with a cheer y smile, 'Twill bet - ter - 2. Cut short that grouch with a kind - ly word, 'Twill bet - ter 3. The cheer - y smile and the beaming eye Bring vis - ions ^ suit your face, And let the dimples just for ssuit your voice, And note how quick when the change is fair like June, And turn the sound of a heaving poco rit. pp =F while The an - gry lines dis - place, Just bu - ry that heard Your own heart will re - joice. Then see how the sigh, To sing-ing joy - ous tune. And all of the zte mm?HF=ftm**L&-L-m a tern, f sor-row-ful, careworn look With one full of sunshine and gloom in each face a - round, Will break in - to sunshine and an-ger and cank'ring care, Fly hpnce to the man in the r: ^Hi^iil S=t= :t=: i=z?t= of to to the THE CHEERY SMILE 27 play, And say, I'll somehow "by hook or crook," Be love. As flow'rs of spring from the frozen ground Peep ^S moon. While sweet content seems to fill the air With sunshine and play. t=nfeS : *=3: sunshine and love. man in the moon. rit. -ttilT- -N-H-- :q=3ztq: =1 #—»%*» L_#- -! —• Hi] happy for one little day. Be happy for one little day. forth to the sunshine a-bove. Peep forth to the sunshine a-bove. happiness bright as the noon With happiness bright as tbe noon t Be happy for one lit day. tie Peep forth to the sun - shine a - bove. With happiness bright as the noon. Salt Lake City at night, as seen from Ensign Peak by the Ensign M. I. A. Scouts, July 26, 1916. They purpose with other scouts to celebrate the event each year by a chain of signal fires built on the Wasatch summits from Southern Utah to Idaho.