Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 4, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The February 1907 opening editorial muses on the month of Lincoln and Washington and on St. Valentine's Day, then offers notes on usage ('peel' vs. 'pare') and quotations from Hillel, Bronson Howard and Bacon.
- A sentimental poem by T. C. Harbaugh recalling a childhood sweetheart's faded valentine found in an old book.
- A dialect poem in which a once good-looking young woman recalls her suitors and how she finally married Jim to be rid of them all.
- A question-and-answer miscellany covering Samuel Johnson's remark on Scotland, Thomas Fuller on tombs, the contents of a Seidlitz powder, the origin of the term 'bucket shop,' the difference between a college and a university, and the Gadsden Purchase.
- A poem comparing life to a game of cards, with the four suits standing for the classes and the stages of life from childhood's hearts to old age's spades.
- The League of American Wheelmen report marking its twentieth anniversary, listing Assembly nominations by state and President Wm. B. Everett's declaration that the nominees are duly elected without a formal election, and arguing the L.A.W. has carried the good-roads fight largely unaided by the trade except for Colonel Pope; notes U.S. bicycle output rose from 200,000 (1904) toward a planned 750,000 (1907) and that Elliott Mason has rejoined the Pope organization at Hartford.
- A day-by-day almanac of historical events occurring in February, from Alexander Selkirk's rescue (1708) to the Constitution's capture of the Cyane and Levant (1815).