The Acorn PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Entered as second class mail matter January 1, 1906, at the Postoffice at Ogden, Utah, under Act of Congress, of March 2, 1879 Subscription Price 50 cents per year Single Copies 10 cents Editorial Staff Editor-in-Chief M. Josephine West, '07 Literary Editors Belva Woodmansee, '07; Rosella Ferrin, '07 Miscellaneous Florence Woolley, '07 Locals Lettie Taylor, '07 Exchange Editors M. Elinor Bingham, '07; Clarence Wright, '08 Cartoonist Victor H. Sears, '10 Music Glenna Wotherspoon, '07 Athletics Arthur Budge, '07; Pearl Cragun, '08 Alumni Edna M. Clegg, '99 Business Staff Business Mgr. Raymond Becraft, '08 First Asst. Wm. F. Driver, '08 Second Asst. Heber Wolley, '09 Subscription George C. Ensign, '07 Circulation Harold Johnson, '08 Editorial Christmas "Come now, let us enjoy a real old fashioned Christmas one like our mother and father enjoyed when they were young. You say that it would be so very, very simple? Yes, you are right, it would be simple, especially when compared with the worry, anxiety, and excitement, which characterizes our Christmas of today. "But what, you ask, shall we first do to bring back the old Christmas spirit? Well, let us first do away with the extravagance of presents. Last year were they not very numerous and several times heavier than our purses And how long was it before the debts incurred were paid? But the greatest question of all is, were we thought more of by our friends for these rich tokens given? Probably we were, but more probably we were not. A little simple remembrance if accompanied by love and good will is twice as acceptable to the true girl or boy. Mother, like the other girls of her time, was satisfied with a single homemade gift, and felt more true joy and gratitude for it than we feel for our numerous and expensive ones. It will be a sacrifice for us, to be sure, but let us see if we THE ACORN 17 shall not feel stronger and happier for the sacrifice. "Then do you not think we could use more simplicity in our festivities? I'm sure we could. In place of the formal dinner with the elaborate menu and table decoration which, last year, took so much time and work to prepare, let us have a good old fashioned Christmas dinner, and invite all our brothers and sisters over to enjoy it with us. Shall we not feel better for it, and will it not be a means of keeping warm the love between brother and sister, parent and child? Let us be merry and joyful in symplicity, not forgetting to remember Him for whom this day is named. Then indeed will Christmas be characterized with the spirit intended." New Year Resolutions A few more days and another task will be before us the making of new resolutions, and, incidentally, the keeping of them. For who would think of entering upon a New Year without a complete list of vices to be shunned and virtues to be cultivated? True there are those who, more wisely, make good resolutions each day. If we are not in this class, however, let us at least not lay aside the time honored custom of beginning anew January first. And now the resolutions made how to hold to them is of importance. We are told that the evil one knows only our words and actions. Our Heavenly Father alone knows our thoughts. Then let us keep these good intentions to ourselves taking into our confidence only one person Him to whom we all look for strength in any good endeavor. Yes, let us make and keep to ourselves new resolutions, expressing them only in our lives, and in this way say: "Build thee more stately mansions oh my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length are free Leaving thy outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"