Millard County Chronicle | 1912-05-30 | Page 8 | Goethe's Birthday.

Goethe's Birthday. An amusing story, taken from node's book on (ioothe, appears In a Paris contemporary. In August, 1818, Goethe Goe-the went to Carlsbad for the cure, and placed himself under the care of Ur. Rehbeln. One morning when he rose be requested Charles, his domestic, to place a bottle of red wine and a glass In encb of the two windows in the room. Then the port walked round and round the apartment, stopping at each window to drink a glass of wine. When be had nearly emptied the bottles bot-tles the doctor arrived. "Ah." said OiH the, "you are come. Do you know It Is my birthday?" "No," said the doctor, "It Is not your birthday. It falls tomorrow," Only the production of the almanac could convince (ioothe that he was a day out In bis reckoning. When he discovered bis mistake he gave vent to a strong expression which Scott puts In the mouth of Capt. Nanty Kwart. nnd. after a long pause, turning turn-ing to the doctor, said: "Then I have got drunk for nothing."