Bassetts Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 10
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
An optimistic year-end editorial looking ahead to the prospects for cycling and the League in the coming year.
- p. 3
A collection of little-known facts about the Christmas holiday and its place in the calendar of various nations and religions.
- p. 4
An explanation tracing the Monday washing-day tradition back to the Pilgrims, who reportedly did their laundry on the first day after their Sabbath.
- p. 5
A touching poem inscribed on an epitaph, celebrating a woman remembered for the domestic warmth she brought to her household.
- p. 6
A poem by Emily Dickinson addressed to the late-blooming fringed gentian flower, used as a meditation on persistence and solitude.