Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 5

Articles in this issue

• THE WHITE FLAG. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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] (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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.