--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Reid, Agnes Just collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 25 number: 2 published: 1921-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Agnes Just Reid, "The Tie Divine," *Improvement Era* 25, no. 2 (December 1921): 163.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2502unse 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: improvementera2502unse start_page: 163 end_page: 163 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1921-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2502unse publication_year: 1921 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 1921, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Tie Divine The Tie Divine Now, Jim and me ain't always Had the smilinest of times, Our weddin' bells rung long ago, "We've most forgot their chimes. We differ 'bout a lot of things In this here game of life, And I sometimes get to wishin' He'd got some other wife. Our neighbors there, the Johnsons, Have busted up for keeps; He goes around a whistlin', She says she never weeps. And Smithy he's got a bran new wife, The old one was a crank; So he is mighty happy, And he has the courts to thank. But Jim and me, we're dif rent, We got a lot of kids; We never could divide them up, The humane law forbids. Besides — there is the one that's gone! And when I think of him It makes me love his father, So I guess I'll stay with Jim. Shelley, Idaho Agnes Just Reid