Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1919 — FORGETFUL BRIDEGROOMS. [ARTICLE]

FORGETFUL BRIDEGROOMS.

The Rev. George Harvest wad to have been married to the daughter of Bishop Compton, of London, but on the morning fixed for the ceremony forgot all about it and went ishing. Much indignation was felt iy the bride and her friends, and ;he engagement was broken off. But the reverend gentleman’s second engagement was equally unsuccessful. Once more he forgot to come up to the scratch. and lost his expectant bride in consequence. M. Pasteur was a scientist of wonderful concentration in his work. So absorbed was he in a problem of the day of his marriage that he kept his bride waiting an hour at the altar without putting in an appearance. A search being instituted, ie was traced to the university, where he was found at work in his aboratory, having forgot all about lis wedding day. After Thomas Edison’s wedding ile returned to his workshop, and lecame so engrossed in the probem then under attention that he entirely forgot his newly-made wife and stayed away from her for fortyeight hours. When John Kemble, the gifted tragedian, was married, he returned to the stage to play Hamlet on his wedding eve. Whether his mind lecame so absorbed in the character as to exclude all other matters of vital importance we can not say; jut for the time he forgot his waitng bride and what had befallen him on that fateful day, and went off to i lis own rooms in the temple on the conclusion of the performance at the theatre!