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Show AN ABSENT MINDED ARTIST. Remarkable Act of Aberration Credited Cred-ited to Edward L. Henry. Edward L. Henry, the Academician, is considerably over sixty years old, but his youthful smooth face, aside from his gray hair, has deceived many persons. He is an inveterate Joker, and also exceedingly absent minded. This is i. actual experience he had at the Century club not long ago. It was a reception, and Mr. Henry was very busy talking to a fellow artist, when something irritated his ankle. He stooped down, lifted the edge of the bottom of one of the other man's trouser legs, calmly scratched the other man's ankle just above the patent pat-ent leather tie, and replacing the garment, gar-ment, went on talking, wholly oblivious obliv-ious of his action and apparently perfectly per-fectly satisfied. |