Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 5

Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 5 cover
PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume3
Issue5
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Articles in this issue

  • THE WHITE FLAG.
    Opening poem by John Hay, in which a lover sends his sweetheart a white rose and a red rose to test whether she returns his affection.
  • COOLED SCRAPS FOR THE HEATED TERM.
    A summer miscellany of jokes, facts and reflections, including a screed against the cost and danger of Fourth of July fireworks and a tip on using your watch as a compass.
  • GONE WITH THE PINS.
    Light verse by Robert J. Burdette musing on vanished troubles and the worries still to come, all 'gone where the lost pins go.'
  • SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.
    The reader question-and-answer department, fielding queries on topics such as the origin of 'Yankee,' patent medicines, the words 'bobby' and 'cop,' whether music can weaken a bridge, and the history of the National Road.
  • [L.A.W. Official Department: objects and officers of the League of American Wheelmen]
    The League's official department lists its aims and its officers, including President Geo. L. Cooke of Providence, R.I., Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett of Boston, and Foreign Consul Joseph Pennell of London.
  • A FEW BELATED WORDS ABOUT THE SILVER JUBILEE.
    President Geo. L. Cooke reflects on the League's twenty-fifth-anniversary celebration, ribbing Secretary Bassett for printing his own letter over Cooke's, thanking the committee, and noting it is his 19th season of wheeling.