22 prompts (or topics) for themes for which i should like to see interest renewed

1. necessity of attention to things as well as books
2. on ardour of mind
3. want of personal beauty as affecting happiness
4. how snow is removed in your town
5. the hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love
6. on attention
7. public amusements, splendid religious ceremonies, warlike preparations, and a display or a rigid police, as means of despotic power
8. on affectation
9. the golden rule and the subway
10. old things that have passed away
11. refinement, a national benefit
12. what I remembered when I was drowning
13. dogs
14. a real mechanic and his automobile engine
15. how to raise lettuce
16. cultivating flowers
17. a visit to the picture-gallery
18. what we did at our picnic
19. the largest fire I have ever seen
20. looking forward
21. how I caught the woodchuck
22. how to entertain a number of small children on a rainy afternoon

--from Connors' Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds,
Theory and Pedagogy