Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — Absentminded. [ARTICLE]

Absentminded.

In the autobiography of Sir Henry Roscoe there is a capital example of the absent-mindedness of Bunsen, the great German scientist lie -had bad bis evening clothes put out that he might attend a card party to which he had been invited, but forgot all about it until the next mornlug,

when his man pointed out that the evening clothes had not been worn. "And" then he know what I’ll do.” That evening he put on his dress clothes, went to the lady’s house at the appointed time and walked which he had been invited. The hostess, much too polite to tell him that he had mistaken the evening and that the party had taken place on the previous night, sent to her friends asking them to come in to play a rubber again. They did so. In the course of the-even-ing the conversation turned on absentmindedness, and Bunsen begau to tell them what had happened to him a long time ago—how that he had for-

gotten an invitation and how he had made up his mlud tq go the next night —and thus he told the party the whole story, forgetting altogether that he was giving them an account of what was happening at the very moment