Wanted Members for the New Sewing Machine Club The greatest method of selling sewing machines is the Club Plan, which is now in effect at this store. Think of receiving a new, late model ball bearing, $75.00 Sewing Machine and pay for it at the rate of $1.00 a week. Just like paying rent. And when you have paid One Dollar for thirty three weeks, with $2.00 down at the start the machine is yours. There are about fifty machines here for the Club now forming you are invited to join. Wrights HOME The word "HOME" and what it stands for. harmonizes with all the best we know, and helps and strengthens us in nobility of life and purpose. There is no other institution so jealously guarded by law and custom. Whatever will in any way add to the stability and influence of your HOME is therefore of pre-eminent importance. The only time when home attains the full meaning of the word is the evening. And what would vour home be without light? What incident in the life of our great Lincoln is more pathetic than his doggedly reading barrowed law books by the light of only the wood fire in his log cabin home? This is the age of ELECTRICITY. The Dark Ages are behind us. No architect could think of designing a MODERN HOME without Electricity. Edison, in 1880, began placing hot burning soot producing light in vacuum bulbs of glass, and from those has finally developed the new latest Mazda Lamps. All that is required to make your home better lighted than the palaces five years ago is a little study of the subject, and a right use of the latest Mazda Lamps ANOTHER REDUCTION IN PRICE THEY STAND BOTH JOLTS AND VOLTS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY G. W. BARLOW, Pres. Opposite Court House, Up 24th Street Phone 88 The Acorn PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WEBER ACADEMY, OGDEN, UTAH, U. S. A. Entered at Ogden, Utah, November 6, 1910, as Second Class Matter under Act March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR, SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS SINGLE COPY, FIFTEEN CENTS SINGLE SOUVENIRS, TWO DOLLARS AND A HALF VOL. X DECEMBER 1912 No. 2 Contents Table of Contents 1 The Gymnasium 2 Literary 3 The New Gymnasium 3 Is There A Santa Claus? 5 David Eccles, Member of the Board of Directors of the Weber Academy 8 The Christmas Story 10 Editorial 11 School Notes 13 The Lecture Course 13 Social Life 13 Debating 14 Class Notes 15 Athletics 17 Alumni 19 Exchange 21 Phunisms 22