The Acorn Published by the Students of the Weber Stake Academy Subscription Price Seventy-five Cents per Year Single Copies Fifteen Cents EDITORIAL STAFF. Editor-in-Chief Rosella Ferrin- '08 Associate Editor Katherine McKay 08 Literary Editors Pearl Cragun, '08; Frances Poulter, '08 Miscellaneous Beatrice Barnes, '08 Locals Clarence Wright, '08; Lettie Taylor '08 Exchange Editors West Lindsay, '09; Edith Barlow, 'ia Cartoonist Vera Browning, '10 Music Myrtle Ririe' 09 Alumni Edna M. Clegg. '99 Athletics Wilmina McFarland, '08; George Burton, 10 BUSINESS STAFF. Business Manager Heber Woolley, '09 First Assistant Fred Jensen, '09 Second Assistant Charles Owen, '08 Subscription Willard Dance '09 Circulation Francis Goddard, '08 Editorial WHAT OUR GIRLS STAND FOR The girls of the Weber Academy stand, for all that is pure and noble in girlhood. There can be no higher ideal of womanhood than that set by the Latter-Day-Saints and to reach this is the aim of every girl who desires to make the most of her life. Modesty is one most essential characteristic of a sincere and pure girl. Personal cleanliness and neat ness should be cultivated at any expense; these will necessarily adorn the girl whose thoughts, words, and consequently her deeds are purity itself. If the mind is free from microbes of disease, there will be no outward manifestation of disorder. Orson F. Whitney says: "Fair maid! be ever as thou art Thy purity thy richest dower; For that alone will charm the heart When beauty is a faded flower." The girls should have too much self-respect and dignity to use slang expressions. This is a common failing that reflects a great deal of discredit upon character. A person's choice of words is in a great degree, a measure of his intellect, the reflection of his life. We should strive to develop force of character, to the fearless The Acorn 23 in defending and standing firmly for what we know is right, to develop the power to think and act for ourselves; and not be guided from our own convictions of right by the persuasion of those who seem to be our friends. Above all let us be what we seem to be, and seem to be what we are. Let us always live the truth, then there can never come into our lives that great fall that came to Cardinal Wolsey sorely because he attempted to live a lie. Merit, true inward worth should form the only factor for class distinctions, these outward shows that may be taken off and put on at will are never dependable. The person the world cares for is she who is always the same sincere, trustworthy friend, she who possesses that true worth of which the poet speaks. "There were many more beautiful, fairer than she, But seek where ye would, ye'd ne'er find A maiden of loveliness greater, to me, For her's was the beauty of mind." LESSONS From the noble life that has just been taken from our midst, we may learn a great lesson of unselfishness, self-denial, and devotion to others. Sister Evans' life was devoted not only to her children but to the welfare of this institution and particularly to the girls here. She has suffered far more than any of us realize, yet she never complained and was always ready to help any one at any time. She often stayed long after school hours to help the girls, and her words of advice given for their benefit, from time to time, have been invaluable. They have comforted many student and saved many from doing little wrong acts. Her pure influence reached all who came in contact with her. All who knew her agree that never did they meet Sister Evans that they were not greeted with a pleasant smile and a kind word. In her strenuous and somewhat sorrowful life, she was never too busy or too worried to bestow these two things. She had the power to smile even though her heart were breaking, a power which few people have. But do we not owe to the world a smile? Have we any right to radiate a sad influence? Our mission here is to aid the world, to help our fellows; our sorrows can scarcely be of use to any one,and they will seldom lighten the burden another or help him to bear them more cheerfully. The world would hardly be complete without sorrow, it is inevitable and necessary, but has not each one enough of his own? The noblest spirit is one that can smile through the darkest clouds. No man can have true faith in God who has not faith in himself. Dr. Driver "Every man is immortal till his work is done."