Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1896 — Absent-Minded. [ARTICLE]

Absent-Minded.

The story is told of a famous mathematician that he was frequently guilty d'urfrfg his courtship of walking the greater 1 part of a mile with the young lady of his choice without speaking. One evening she took advantage of his absentmindedness to play him a trick. She slipped her hand from bis firm and hurried home a nearer way. He continued to hold his arm in .the came position, walked up the steps of her father’s house, and rang the bell, when, to his astonishment, she herself opened the door. He stared in an incredulous manner and exclaimed, “Why, S-——, how in the world did you pet on that side of the door?”