Bassett's Scrap Book, Vol 6, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A short poem attributed to Confucius (500 years B.C.) about a turtle-dove coming as a bride to fill the magpie's nest.
- The editor's running leader of opinion and humor, satirizing presidential candidates and tariff reform and lamenting the Chelsea, Mass. fire that destroyed his birthplace and longtime home with losses estimated at ten million dollars.
- A love poem by John Randolph Stidman, followed by Abbot Bassett's note on Elbert Hubbard's Philistine account of the unfortified U.S.-Canada boundary as a model of lasting peace.
- A question-and-answer feature explaining the French Diamond Necklace Affair, the Columbian half dollars and Isabella quarters coined for the 1893 Chicago exposition, why Washington's site was once called Rome, and the term 'Congressman at large.'
- A poem by Abraham Cowley extolling a modest, content life of books, friendship and a cottage garden over wealth and fame.
- A guessing puzzle in which thirty questions about a wedding are to be answered with the titles of popular novels, with answers to the previous April puzzle ('April Knuts') given on the following page.
- Reports the League of American Wheelmen officers for 1908-09 (President Marriott C. Morris, editor-secretary Abbot Bassett) and recent veteran cyclist gatherings, including the Newton Bi Club dinner and the newly organized Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia, plus President Morris's notice of J. P. Simmons's stolen Columbia chainless bicycle.