Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 12
Articles in this issue
- A set of leap-year notes and witticisms opening the February 1908 issue, including a proverb about February and remarks on maids, matrons and widows.
- A humorous leap-year poem, reprinted from the New York Times, in which a spinster works up the nerve to propose marriage.
- A sentimental poem by Nixon Waterman about a boy proudly graduating from pencil to ink, with the moral that the wrongs of adulthood are written in ink and cannot be erased.
- A question-and-answer department covering the elector William Plumer who declined to vote for Monroe, the governance of Jerusalem, the sun as a source of light, the Weinsberg legend of the women carrying off their husbands, the ten commandments of Buddha, and the origin of the races of man.
- A puzzle and riddle department posing problems about ship's masts and a brick's weight, a dinner-dessert charade, and a correspondent's elaborate method for counting the letters in a sign, with answers to the December questions.
- A poem by Joaquin Miller honoring the unseen, lifelong struggles borne patiently by the mothers of men.
- Lists the League of American Wheelmen officers for 1908-09 - President Marriott C. Morris of Philadelphia, with Frank W. Weston and Edward F. Hill as vice presidents and Abbot Bassett as secretary-treasurer and editor - and the delegates nominated for the National Assembly by state.
- Reports the sixth annual reunion and banquet of the Quaker City Wheelmen Veteran Association on January 21st at the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, where Eugene C. Bonniwell was elected president and about seventy old club members attended.