NEXT TUESDAY. We, the students of the Ogden High school, will again have the opportunity and pleasure to wit¬ness another "Smokeless Smoker" next Tuesday evening. The bouts that have been arrangd will even bo heller than those of our last one. The senior class invites all to attend. —Ambrose Merrill, Jr. THE CHINA SHOP. On March 2, two weeks "from today, a f the Orpheum theatre, Mie music department of Ogden High school will present an oper¬etta, "The China Shop." It is ng diretod by Mark Robinson and Mrs. Agnes Warner Bowen who have selected the following students fo take the principal parts: Lynn Gibbs will sing the prolog: Clifford Fretwell is Sing Fong, tho son of a wealthy merchant: Lee Cain is the merchant and father; Melba Browning is the very charming Lotus Blos¬som. the fiance of Sing Fong; Don Carey takes the comedy role as Mr. Justcot Carfare, an American who tries to reform every- body, hut himself; Gordon Larson as Nun Tun is a politician; Wil¬liam Smith takes care that he is Mush Lush and a woman hater; Wilma Monson is Hoy Tee Toy, .the chaperone of three belles. Ting a Ling, Ding Dong and Ping Ping—Dorothy Martin, Dorothy Brewer and Dorothy Robinson; Roger Kingsford is Tannyn, the fisherman and uncle of Lotus Blossom. Chunk, the secretary, happens to be Lynn Gibbs. This operetta will be very artistic for Mr. Stewart of the art department has consented to paint a few piaces of scenery for the different acts. Franklin Rich¬ards was appointed stage man¬ager and Kenneth Skeen, busi¬ness manager. According to the amount of pop and interest and the capable directing, it is known that this operetta will guarantee a presen¬tation equal to any production the high school has heretofore pro¬duced. —Kathryn Greenwell. LITTLE BEASTS. Three hundred years ago there lived in Holland a poor Dutch tradesman and janitor by the name of Leeuwenhoek. Now this Dutchman was very curious and he spent all his leisure hours in making magnifying lenses and observing objects that looked bigger under the glass than under the naked cy. He was at first most interested in improving his crude lenses. Finally he was so successful in this that he succeeded In discovering a new world— liho microscopic world peopled With a thousand different kinds tiny beings, some ferocious and deadly, others friendly and use¬ful many of them more impoVtant to mankind than any continent or archipelago. What a wonderful time Leeuwenhoek had all by himself as he studied these curious little ornisms—little beasts, he called them. Of course he was called a crank, a fanatic, a silly boob—and all sorts of names—but what did that matter to him? He was bavin a glorious time! For 50 years he had his fun. wigorally scores and hundreds of flkple came in time to see his “wondrous, wretched beasties" and Us lame reached England. Soon he was made, a member of the 1 IToynl .society and one of the most honored too for he surpassed them all in the wonderful discoveries ho made, and In the keenness of lis observations. He exploded countless superstitions for the sohis name was coupled with Sir Isaac Newton as also ; With Sir Robert Boyle—the most I hn or the day. Students who study Tenet today vnnr the powerful accurately adjusted micro¬be. should enjoy reading the fascinating story of Leeuwenhoek thc man who not only discov world of microbes. but who also invented the crude lenses with which the discovery was made. Ogden High For the past few weeks some of the English classes have been traveling through the realms of lyric poetry. Attempts at sonnet writing have disclosed some unusual poetic talent, as shown by the following sonnet written by Margaret Soderberg. SORROW. Through life's gay whirl there conies, sometime, to man, a sorrow that seems cold, unkind and deep; A sorrow that defies the human plan, And wakes the untrained heart from peaceful sleep. When first dark sorrow came to dwell with me, I bowed my head and moaned my ill-spun fate. I cursed a woe that had no right to be, (That filled my soul with fiery, burning hate. But when the fire had spent itf fierce, mad heat, And left my heart with deep re¬morse dark draped, I saw the mighty weaver at her seat And watched her smile as each new life she shaped. She wove a -strand through all the joy and strife. Lo, sorrow, was the golden thread of« life. TEACHER ILL. Miss Reva Beck has been on the sick list this week, but has managed to be at her afternoon classes every day. No, she hasn't the measles, nor scarlet fever, nor small-pox—nor anything like that—just a severe cold. SCHOLARSHIPS. Colorado college, in Colorado Springs, announces a very limited, number of seventy-five dollar scholarships. Such scholarships help to pay part of tuition fee. Anyone interested may see the school librarian. ESSAY CONTEST. Announcement has been made of the offering of cash prizes for the best essays on the subject, "The Value of Wild Life In Utah." The prizes are offered by the Weber County Fish and Game Protective association. The prizes are as follows: First, $5; second, $2.50; third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. $1 each. The essays are to be from 300 to 500 words in length and to be handed in by March 15. GREAT CONVENTION. The "queen nomination" con¬vention—patterened after the type of a national political convention, was held in the high school as¬sembly hall Thursday evening from 3:15 to 6 o'clock. It was characterized by much enthusi¬asm, noise and good humor. After a number of ballots the following were nominated as queen candi¬dates: Mary Rich, Winnifred McConnell, Margaret Storey. Lois Fowler, Eleanor Weeks, Kather- ine Trousdale. Mildred McKay, Katherine Healy, Dorothy Cook. Melba Bowman, Ruth , Mark, Thelma Burt. Hazel Davis, Helen Wilcox, Louise Reed. in memoriam. It isn't quite the usual thing To write an epitaph or song About a common pup, that dies A frisky pal—ah—not for long. But In memoriam. now we write And tears—perhaps a trace. We hope, that in dog's Paradise, Our mascot finds a place. Zeta Phi Xi. interesting words. Travel. The word travel originally ,, meant "labor, work," from the I French travail, and gives us a picture of the old-time of the foot 1 journey and the post chaise. To- ] day traveling has been made so comparatively easy that most of the original meaning fo the word is gone. Certainly no one con¬siders it labor or work to journey from place to place. Tongue. A word whose origin may cause surprise is the word tongue. The correct spelling is tung, as it comes from the Anglo-Saxon tunge. The Norman-French seem¬ed to want to make it like their French words, tongue, etc., so they transformed tung into tongue. It is a question whether anyone will be brave enough to go back to the phonetic spelling, which is correct. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. In the eighteenth century men believed that life rose spontan¬eously. This was the theory of scientists as well as laymen. Gnats and flies grew spontaneously in decaying putrid matter. Mice arose spontaneously from the mud of the Nile. The favorite recipe for getting a swarm of bees was this: "Take a young bullock, kill him with a knock on the head, bury him under the ground in a standing position with his horns sticking out. Leave him there for a month, then saw off his horns —and out w"ill fly your swarm of bees." The great English naturalist Ross wrote: "To question that beetles and wasps were gener¬ated in cow dung is to question reason, sense and experience." But despite this great scientist, reason, sense and experience were questioned and an Italian by the name of Francesco Reid insisted that flies, gnats, bees, mice—all animal life comes from pre-existent life—not spontaneously. In proof of his theory he performed the following experiment: He took two jars and put some meat in them. He left the mouth of one jar open; over the mouth of the other he stretched a light veil. He observed flies entering the open jar, and in a little while there were maggots there, and then new flies. He examined the jar with the veil over it and found no maggots there, no flies. He repeated the experiment many times, always with the same resuit. Life comes from life—flies are the offspring of other flies, he argued. But people would not have it so; they preferred to be¬lieve for some cause, that flies grew spontaneously. It was many years before people generally could rid themselves of the old superstition. THE LITTLE CHILDREN OF GOD. Somehow, flowers seem to hold the very breath of God. Their I twilight purples, virgin whites, velvety reds and delicate pinks and blues, all express the most divine thought of the Creator, that of beauty. If He had a pref¬erence when He breathed life into the earth, surely it must have been bestowed upon the flowers, for to them He has given every mood and color, every sw-eet odor and grace. Flowers portray the very es¬sence of souls. The roadside dandelion, nodding its golden head to a bee; the blushing poppy, flirting with a vagrant breeze; the shy, dew-misted violet on its little pillow of leaves, and a tiny, new¬born blossom, trembling under its first drop of dew—these are the little children of God, and their souls are in their faces. As children should, they perfume the world with innocence and love. Their messages are borne in the burden of a sighing wind, or on the back of a fleet-winged bird. . There is nothing so invigorating as to stand in a flower garden, just as dawn trembles into day. and to watch the myriad of soft green things burst their covers open and look out to greet the sun. As each bud stretches itself and shakes the moisture from its eyes, there is a feeling of per¬fection in one's heart. The trees seem to whisper and the birds to say, "Hush, the children of God are waking." —Fay Hopkin. — oo Ogden High snow imagery The snow lay if?' wide, slow wavetf. I wanted to sketch across its whiteness, But I was afraid. It was too like God. I walked in the deep smoothness of white. The snow skipped in little balls before me, To tell the snow ,ahead that I was coming. —Ruth Agee. PICTURES PLEASE Glen Bros.-Roberts company showed moving pictures of the R. O. T. C. band at Fostoria last ,sum- and other interesting high school activities to the school battalion on Wednesday morning at the Central Junior high school. The boys were not only pleased with the pictures, but with the fine spirit manifested by this firm in featuring our activities. AT NORTH JUNIOR The R. O. T. C. band journeyed out to North Washington Junior this morning and gave the "stu¬dents of that institution, a fine treat in the way of a concert pro- ! gram. ASSEMBLY REPORT President Fife presided at the regular Friday assembly. Candidates for Queen of the Classicalia were introduced as fol¬lows: Melba Bowman, Thelma Burt. Dorothy Coop, Lois Fowler, Hazel Davis, Kathryn Healy, Ruth Mark, Winifred McConnell, Mil¬dred McKay, Mary Rich, Louise Reed, Margaret Storey, Katherine Trousdale, Eleanor Weeks, and Helen Wilcox. The program was given under the auspices of the Junior class, with Paul Skeen presiding. Mr. Peterson, music instructor at the Central Junior high school sang a solo, accompanied on the piano by Lorin Wheelwright. Mr. Evans of the Evans Dra¬matic Stock company gave a short reading. The Rev. J. W. Hyslop, rector of the Church of the Good Shep¬herd, introduced the speaker of the day, Archdeacon Webber of Bos¬ton. Dr. Webber told of his travels? around the world, and showed the value of faith in a Captain. The program was concluded i with a stunt by Tom Broadbent, Kathryn Greenwell and Oscar Browning. AT WEBER HIGH Coach Dixon Kapple has ar¬ranged to play one game with Davis this week, Friday evening, in the fine gymnasium of the Weber High school. The change is made in order to accommodate the large crowd that will attend as well as to enjoy the large floor playing space afforded by that school. Davis players, having already beaten both Ogden and Box Elder, are confident that they will beat us again, ! ut in this they are much mistaken. SENIOR SMOKER A smokeless smoker will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, Feb¬ruary 22 in the Ogden High school gym. The program throughout the evening will be exceptional. The Seniors invite everyone to attend. —Ambrose Merrill, Jr. SELECT YOUR PILOT Archdeacon P. C. Webber of Boston gave a, memorable address at the high school on Friday. The archdeacon has a winning person- alitv and a charming voiee; These,! backed by culture, wisdom and 1 wide experience enabled him to: hold our students spell-tfound dur¬ing the twenty minutes that he