Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 6
Articles in this issue
- p. 2
A comic poem by Rena Carv Cheffield in which a slim cigarette and a fat cigar fall in love on a tabouret, only for their romance to end — like most love stories, the poem observes — in nothing but smoke.
- p. 1
An August collection of aphorisms on picnics, ice water and doctors, parental embarrassment over a daughter's admitted age, and the observation that culture is learning that takes a bath regularly.
- p. 5
An anecdote of the Duke and Duchess of Fife learning to bicycle together, in which the riding-school instructor is urged by the Duke to hold the Duchess tightly regardless of royalty — with the result that within three days it is the Duchess holding the Duke up on country lanes.
- p. 9
An explanation of how electrical resistance measured in ohms allows a telegraph operator to calculate the exact mile at which a line is broken, illustrated with a worked example of a 150-mile wire broken at the 50-mile mark.
- p. 5
A comic poem following the misfortunes of William Brown through a single week, with each disaster punning on a day of the week: his Monday poverty, Tuesday bills, Wednesday courtship, Thursday rejection, Friday despair, and Saturday death.
- p. 8
A compassionate editorial arguing against a Chicago clergyman who refused burial rites to a suicide, invoking the biblical story of Saul and urging that it is always our privilege to comfort rather than condemn the suffering and despairing.
- p. 15
Three puzzle problems for readers: the combined weight of a goose and two equal pigeons, the capital of two men whose squares sum to one hundred, and a tree-cutting division problem — with answers to the previous month's July problems also given.