Show WOUND UP HIS WATCH Wed Interruption to n A Stranse Iuterrnllton ding CeremonY It is remarkable said a prominent I with what nonchalance i city clergyman yesterday cty cergman through chalance some bridegrooms g The coolness and complacency the ceremony colness placency 1e with which some of the men who sme come to wih parsonage to be married go through the thing are a revelation tome to-me and make me believe I had no nerve at ill Of course he continued the people who come unannounced to the parsonage to be married are generally of the plain sort They dress plainly and frequently rave delightful fresh and original manners man-ners and ways of doing things But you must acknowledge that even to a clergy roan who has read the service over hundreds hun-dreds of trembling couples it is rather startling to have the bridegroom at the most solemn part take out his Waterbury Water-bury watch and begin to wind it up in the most methodical way imaginable But that is what happened here last week I was reading the formal charge to the man and woman and reading It In a way that I considered most impressive and aweinspirinp The bridegroom who was a big lumbering fellow followed Tne for a time with considerable Interest Then he suddenly took out his watch and began be-gan to wind it 1 let him go on for a few seconds and then I realized that it was a Waterbury and might last all the rest of the ceremony So I stopped short and looked severely at the man He smiled at me in a friendly sort of way but he didnt comprehend at nil what was then the-n itter and all this time the steady clinckinR of the winder was to be heard I was very mortifying to me that mv dignity was not overwhelming enough to make that man stop short but he didnt and I had to speak to himXew York Tribune |