AN ASTRONOMICAL PROPOSAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ASTRONOMICAL PROPOSAL.

Sir George Airy, the famous English astronomer, who searched the heavens with such bold and clear vision, was so bashful in society that he could not look anyone directly n the face. By reason of his timidity he seemed doomed to bo a bachelor for life. But fortune favoured him, and he drifted into matrimony in an unexpected way. An intimate friend remarked to him one day "Have you ever observed Miss 's eyes? They have tlio property of double refraction." Scientific enthusiasm was kindled, and shyness vanished before an unsolved problem which he might solve. ''Dear me, that is very odd!" he exclaimed. "I should like to soe that; do you think I might venture to calif' And call he did, and J logged permission to examine the eyes. The noveltv of the situation may have fascinated him. At any rate ho begged the privilege of :i second call to look at them in a clearer light. The problem grew so interesting that he concluded to make it a life-study. The boldness born of scientific curiosity enabled him to propose. 11 j > was accepted, (and the strange courtship ended in a happy marriage.