RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32217, 9 February 1970, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

THE HERO

When a girt gets married, her mother may find it possible to attract a little sympathetic attention by dabbing her eyes delicately with a wisp of lace, to make it known that Her Little Girl has flown from the nest; and the bride’s father holds a position of at least minor importance, because he has had to pay for the whole wretched business. The mother of the bridegroom doesn’t get much publicity, although usually she can find compensation in a fine new outfit But the father of the bridegroom usually feels quite redundant and useless, wandering about the reception with the lonely look of a bittern in a swamp of small talk. So it is with consider-

able pleasure that we put on record a wedding reception at which the father of the bridegroom became the very centre of attraction. These dramatic events took place at the extensive home of the bride’s parents. All the principals in the piece were there, everyone except the ladies dressed immaculately in dress suits and tails, with all the trimmings. Staying in the house were two married sisters of the bride. They had brought with them to the wedding their not inconsiderable number of small progeny, and so urgent were the demands of looking after the guests at the reception, and making the usual wedding reception noises, that the equally

urgent demands of their infants had to be met by use of an enormous supply of disposable paper napkins. In the days before the wedding, when they were equally busy working at the thousand and one tasks women find to do before weddings, they had also been getting through the disposable paper napkins, and the whole lot had been disposed, as it were, in the upstairs toilet At the height of the reception, the upstairs toilet broke down and flooded: too many disposable paper napkins. And who was rushed to the rescue? The father of the bridegroom. It was not a working day, he was in his dress suit and tails, but he was a plumber.