Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 2

Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 5, No 2 cover
PublicationBassett's Scrap Book
Volume5
Issue2
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Articles in this issue

  • APRIL FOOLS, SHOWERS AND BUDS.
    The April 1907 issue's opening seasonal leader, musing on spring weather and quoting an 1783 order from Washington proclaiming a cessation of hostilities.
  • FRIENDS.
    A poem by S. E. Kiser contrasting the fault-finding acquaintance with the true friend who takes one's measure at one's best.
  • A BROKEN HEART.
    A whimsical poem about a little china figure on a bracket who loves the housemaid who dusts him and breaks when she lets him drop.
  • LET IT IN.
    A short poem urging the grouchy reader to let the sunshine in and crack a hard face with a grin.
  • SCRAPS OF INFORMATION.
    A question-and-answer feature explaining the origins of 'witch-hazel,' the 'Pharaoh's Horses' painting by John F. Herring Sr., double dating, degrees of frost, and the colonial 'piece of eight.'
  • FAME.
    A poem by Austin Dobson contrasting hollow fame, 'a food that dead men eat,' with the nobler thing of friendship.
  • L. A. W. DEPARTMENT.
    League and bicycle-club news: the Newton (Mass.) Bi. Club's silver jubilee on April 13, a Haverhill Cycle Club reunion at Hotel Thorndike, the Nylaw meeting at the Crescent Athletic Club, the Rovers (Boston) Bi Club, and the American Roadmakers' Pittsburg plan to seek $50,000,000 for Pennsylvania highways.