Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 11, No 7
Articles in this issue
- p. 2
An editorial reflecting on the League's decision to begin its year in September rather than January, and comparing the F.A.M.'s current internal disputes over racing and meeting places to the L.A.W.'s own earlier controversies.
- p. 3
A practical recipe for a long-lasting non-yellowing scrapbook adhesive made from gum tragacanth, soft water, and a few drops of oil of cloves or wintergreen, which Bassett claims to have used for many years.
- p. 3
A comic anecdote about the French President's single disastrous attempt to learn the bicycle, which ended with him crashing into a rose bush worth twenty francs and decisively giving up the idea.
- p. 4
Dietary advice attributed to an L.A.W. doctor, ranking cheese, beans, peas, beef, and oatmeal as the best muscle-builders, and dismissing soups, beef essences, and wheat flour as mere stimulants or fatteners.
- p. 9
A letter from Dr. LeRoy describing his motor tour through the lakes of New York State and into Canada, with a note that Canadian roads remain as bad as they were when he toured the same routes by bicycle twenty years ago.
- p. 7
A long enthusiastic letter from Louis Berger of Los Angeles describing how a bicycle tour led him to resurrect his old Victor cushion-tire Ordinary, and how he relearned the pedal mount and vault within days at age forty-eight.
- p. 5
A nostalgic note on the impending sale of the Grand Union Hotel in New York, recalling it as the venue for the most exciting and contentious League meetings of the 1880s, where battles for office and racing rules were fiercely fought.