BRIDEGROOMS’ POOR MEMORIES.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5516, 24 October 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

BRIDEGROOMS’ POOR MEMORIES.

The Rev. George Harvest was 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 off fishing. Much indignation was felt by the bride and her friends, and the 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 consequent. M. Pasteur was a scientist of wonderful concentration in his work. So absorbed was he in a problem on 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, he was traced to the University, where he was found at work in his laboratory, having forgotten all about his wed-ding-day. After Thomas Edison's wedding he returned to his workshop, and became so engrossed in the problem then under attention that he entirely stayed away from her for forty-eight hours.

When John Kemble, the gifted tragedian, was married, he returned to the stage to play Hamlet on his wed-ding-eve. Whether his mind became so absorbed in the character as to exclude all other matters of vital importance we cannot say: but for the time he forgot his waiting bride and what had befallen him on that fateful day, and went off to his own rooms in the Temple on the conclusion of the performance at the theatre!