Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 3, No 7
Articles in this issue
- A poem opening the September issue, answering the adage "A man is as old as he feels, a woman as old as she looks" with a defence of a woman's ever-young heart.
- A dialect poem by J. W. Foley in which a boy declares he would rather take a whipping than a scolding from his mother.
- A satirical dream-essay in which a visitor from Mars is introduced to the ambassadors of Japan, Russia, England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey and the United States, each denouncing the others as land-grabbing robbers.
- A reader question-and-answer column ("When in doubt ask the Scrapper") covering the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii, the origin of "Dutch courage," the emancipation of Russian serfs, the first U.S. railroad at Quincy, Mass., and other queries.
- [Officers of the League of American Wheelmen and L.A.W. annual election notice] (opens in a new tab)The L.A.W. official department lists the league's objects and officers (President Geo. L. Cooke, Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, Foreign Consul Joseph Pennell) and explains nomination and election procedures for delegates to the National Assembly.
- President Geo. L. Cooke's letter recounting his troubled summer vacation at Onset Bay, plagued by a balky motor-boat that defied a succession of experts and by repeated punctures and cuts to his bicycle tire.