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Show I Painted While Asleep. It Is the craze of the pretty ladles of the Tlergartenstrasse's plutocrat society lo be painted while asleep, writes a Iterlln correspondent. The Austrian Countess Czlvek started the bright Idea. The well known portraitist portrait-ist mho had given her an appointment for the sitting has the vicious habit of making you wait. Tired of turning over French novels In an antechamber, antecham-ber, the beautiful countess fell asleep. At laFt the procrastinating artist turned turn-ed up. F.ntranced by tho unexpected vision of sleeping beauty he threw off a lightning sketch and us the countess awoke held It before her astonished eyes. Tho drawfcitf was so dainty and seductive that thellellghted sitter Insisted In-sisted upon a coVpleto oil portrait pulnted whllo she uulntcd sleep. |