BRIDEGROOM'S POOR MEMORIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 2

BRIDEGROOM'S POOR MEMORIES.

The Rev. George Harvest was to have been m-arried to the daughter of BishoP Compton, of London, but. ‘on the .morn—ing fixed for the cereniong, forgot all about it and went off fishing‘.-. Mtlch indignation. was felt by the bride and her friends, and the engagement was broken oif. But the reverend gentleman’s second engagement was equally unsuccessful. Once more he forgot ‘to come up to the scratch, and lost. his OXpected bride in consequenceM. I’a.s'ceur was a. scientist of wonde.rful concentration in his work.‘ So ab sorbed was he in aipnoblem on the day of his marl"iage that he kept his bride waiting an hour at the altar without putting in an appearance. Aeseareh beinginstituted, he was traced. to the University, where he was found at work in his laboratory, having forgotten all about his wedding day. After Thomas Edison's wediding he returned to his workshop and «became so engrossed in the problem then under attention that he entirely. forgot his irewly-made \vife,';,'all;(l Smtayed away from her for forty-eight hours. \’Vhen John Kemble, the gifted tragedian was married, he returneid to the stage to play Hamlet on his weddingeve. \Vhether 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 fo.rgot his waiting bride and what had befallevn him and went off to his own rooms in the Temple on the conclusion‘ of the performance at the theatre.