Vol 5, No 5

Articles in this issue

• JULY. (opens in a new tab)

  A comic poem complaining that the July weather is "too blooming hot for anything," opening this July 1907 issue.
• AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY. (opens in a new tab)

  A humorous poem by M. Phelps Dawson about a boy battered and bandaged from his Fourth of July fireworks celebrations who still wishes every day were the Fourth.
• A CLASS-DAY CONQUEST. (opens in a new tab)

  A poem in which a youth woos a girl in a Holworthy window seat on Harvard class day, only for her whispered "Yes" to be deflated by the added "That's six today!"
• CYCLING GLORY HALLELUJAH. (opens in a new tab)

  A cycling poem set to the "Glory Hallelujah" chorus, celebrating the joy of the rider on his swiftly flying wheel and inviting brothers and sisters out for a country run.
• BERRYING. (opens in a new tab)

  A nostalgic comic poem recalling a youthful berry-picking expedition beset by thorns, snakes, wasps and the farmer's dog, the speaker now content to "berry" in a store.
• SCRAPS OF INFORMATION. (opens in a new tab)

  A reader question-and-answer feature covering the source of "here today and gone tomorrow" (Tristram Shandy), how fishes breathe, the definition of a saint, the usage of "pair," and calcium carbide, plus a who-am-I puzzle.
• [L.A.W. National Assembly officers and Old Home Week notices] (opens in a new tab)

  League of American Wheelmen report listing the 1907-08 officers (President Wm. B. Everett; Secretary-Treasurer and Editor Abbot Bassett) and announcing the National Assembly meeting of Sept. 12, the Wheel About the Hub tour, and Wheelman's Day in Boston on Aug. 3d.