Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 10, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A humorous poem (reprinted from Tid-Bits) on the irregularities of English, noting that a napkin is not a little nap and a dumpling not a little dump.
- A poem in praise of the New England pumpkin pie, reprinted from the Boston Sentinel of Sept. 18, 1818.
- Report that the executors of Colonel Albert A. Pope's will—Edward W. Pope, Robert L. Winkley, Harold L. Pope, Albert A. Pope and Mrs. Abby Pope—made their formal accounting to the Dedham (Mass.) Probate Court, having distributed property amounting to $1,219,981 over three years.
- Obituary of Daniel O'Hara of Waltham, Mass., owner of the O'Hara dial factory and maker of the League's enamel badges in the nineties, who died Nov. 19th; for many years he supplied Assembly delegate badges free of cost.
- A member writing as No. 406 argues that the famous Boston Wheel About the Hub tour should be re-routed to take in historic places such as Lexington, Concord, Salem, Plymouth, the Wayside Inn and Brook Farm and to use better roads, rather than the unimproved 1879 route.
- Notes that President-elect Woodrow Wilson, an enthusiastic wheelman, sailed for Bermuda to take long bicycle trips, and recalls earlier cycling Presidents Grover Cleveland (tricycle) and Theodore Roosevelt (a former L.A.W. member).
- A set of verses celebrating the bicycle, paraphrasing classic lines in praise of the wheel, with readers requested to supply quotation marks if required.
- A column of aphorisms and jokes, including the quip that 'a man, like a watch, is known by his works' answered in turn by the wife, athlete, reformer and pugilist.
- Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett sets out the L.A.W. National Assembly representation for each state based on the Dec. 1, 1912 membership (New York 10, Mass. 9, Penn. 8, etc., total 51) and explains the nomination procedure under Article V of the Constitution.