--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Higginson, Mollie collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Higginson, Mollie, "The Man with a Smile," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 51.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse 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: improvementera2401unse start_page: 51 end_page: 51 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 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 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Man with a Smile The Man with a Smile Did you ever, my friends, meet the man with the smile, The dear man who just made you feel life was worth while? When you feel kind of lonesome his sweet smile you meet, Then your heart feels like bubbles, like fairies your feet. His sweet wife is the best little wife in the world, His bright boys are the best e'er the State's flag unfurled; My brain, says he, sometimes it just feels like a sieve, But now, honor bright, boys, it's a grand thing to live. It's a grand thing to live and to hope for the best, And maybe I won't fail if I'm put- to the test I have not yet arrived where I fain long to be, But by constantly striving I'll yet climb the tree. This dear man with the smile I would have you all meet, He's the best thing on earth for us mortals to greet; Optimism personified, vision of light, He just radiates sunshine from morning till night, Though the weather-man's mean as he ever can be, Though in life's time-worn pathway faint light I can see, All my cares simply vanish, are buried the while, When I happen to meet with the man with the smile. May kind heaven watch o'er you, O man with the smile, Who on days dark and sombre sweet joystrains beguile, Your name on heaven's records must sure be on file, May god bless you and keep you, O man with the smile. Ogden, Utah Mollie Higginson