Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 4, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A short devotional poem by Muriel Strode opening the December 1906 issue, on worshipping at the call of the soul and doing for the joy of it.
- A sentimental poem about a working man who endures life's battles, comforted that his little child waits at the window believing his daddy is all right.
- A poem by W. E. H. Lecky about a man who plants an oak and a thought in the minds of men before going abroad to die, his name forgotten though his thought lives on.
- A humorous question-and-answer poem on American history, with punning schoolroom answers about Columbus, Paul Revere, Washington, Benedict Arnold, Ben Franklin, the Battle of Bull Run, and the canal at Panama.
- A question-and-answer column tracing quotations and phrases such as Charles Sumner's "twin relics of barbarism" (slavery and polygamy), Emerson's McGregor saying, George Herbert, and the origin of the word "turncoat."
- A poem by Nixon Waterman contrasting a house built of bricks and stones with a home built of loving deeds, crediting the women of the earth with building the homes.
- A day-by-day calendar of historical events in December, from the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and Washington's death (1799) to Napoleon divorcing Josephine (1809) and the Iroquois theatre fire in Chicago (1903).
- League of American Wheelmen notes from Sec-Treas. Abbot Bassett announcing a new record ticket for 1907 and the National Assembly delegate allotments by state (total 80), plus a note on the death of rider Tom Cooper and on Mrs. Caroline Bache Barnes of Vineland, N.J., aged 72, who still rides daily.