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Show SIMPLE STATEMENT OF FACT Mr. Johnson Unable to See Where In Any Way He Had "Put His Foot In It." It Is common to deplore tho lack of humor In a person. Yet tho vory want of It may save a cortaln amount of .embarrassmont, ns was tho case on n cortaln occasion with President Johnson. "He wns ono day," says a writer In Harper's Magazine, "visiting "visit-ing my mother, nnd a friend, Mrs. Knox, a widow, camo In. Sho had known Mr. Johnson somo years bo-foro, bo-foro, whon ho was a member .of tho legislature, but thoy had not mot slnco then. "After mutual recognition, Mr. Johnson said, 'How is Mr. Knox? I havo not seen him lately.' " 'Ho has been dead six yoars,' said Mrs. Knox. " 'I thought I hadn't seen him on tho street,' said Mr. Johnson. "When Mrs. Knox left, my mothor said, laughing, 'That was a funny mistake mis-take of yours about Mr. Knox.' " 'What mistake did 'I mako?' said Johnson. 'I snld I hadn't seen him on tho street, nnd I hadn't.' " |