Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 1
Articles in this issue
- The opening editorial leader for the March 1905 issue, announcing that Bassett's Scrap Book now appears in a new, smaller, more pocketable form, followed by assorted seasonal notes and quotations from James Whitcomb Riley and R. L. Stevenson.
- A poem by Frank L. Stanton about the coming of spring heralded by birdsong.
- An anonymous Scots-dialect poem about a girl, Mary, called in vain to make the tea while she chases off through the bracken.
- A light essay (credited to a London paper) noting that cyclists have no patron saint, weighing candidates such as St. Catherine, St. Germain and Ixion the king of the Lapithae bound to a revolving wheel.
- A series of humorous exchanges among personified household objects such as the Rat-trap, Refrigerator, Furnace and Saw.
- A satirical essay arguing that women would do well to shave off facial hair, blaming convention ('Mrs. Grundy') for the taboo against women using a razor.
- The magazine's question-and-answer department, fielding readers' queries on topics such as the origin of 'Tit for Tat,' Lincoln's duel, the letter W, Virginia Dare and the lost colony of Roanoke, and the Jefferson Bible.
- An address from President Geo. L. Cooke on his re-election and the League of American Wheelmen's Silver Jubilee, announcing the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration to be held in Boston on May 30, 1905 (the L.A.W. having been organized at Newport, R.I., May 31, 1880).
- The Secretary-Treasurer's L.A.W. news column reporting on League Day plans, the Boston Bicycle Club committee, Massachusetts lighting-law arguments, New Hampshire road spending, and the C.T.C. of England's two-hundred-guinea prize for preventing side-slip, plus the roster of the Silver Jubilee committee.