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Show opinion that beefsteak is a good muscle-builder and perhaps you think just the opposite. But it is immaterial what you think. You are simply a prompter for the know-it-all and he again opens his mouth and begins to pour out wisdom. He goes from "soup to nuts" and tells you the exact nutritive quality 'of everything you ever ate, wanted to eat, or didn't eat. He runs the gamut from cold storage eggs to boarding-house hash and from "sinkers" to cocktails., cock-tails., Nothing escapes him.. He knows all about the matter and he gives you the full advantage of his knowledge. .-' . By this time, you are limp and want to get away, but you don't know just how to do it. Finally, a bright idea strikes you and you tell the bore that you must catch a car: Of course, however, the car isn't on time and you then listen to a dissertation on street car service until some car it doesn't matter which--wanders along and yon succeed in making your escape. You then congratulate yourself that you don't know it all, or, better, that you don't think -yon do. Beware of the "know-it-all," for you always see your finish when he gets you into a corner.' MAN OF GREAT LEARNING OFTEN A BORE. -What an awful bore the well-informed, "know-it-all" man is. Especially, if he realizes that he Is well-informed. Don't you dislike ; to le at a gathering, where he is one of the central figures? He is always a central figure, by the way, because he realizes his own im- : pordnce and insists upon being where the spot-light burns brightest. bright-est. It is an utter impossibility to mention anything that he doesn't knpw all about and 4ie tells you what he knows in detail. . All you j have to do is to press the button of knowledge and he does the rest. v , JTor example, you inadvertently mention the sea fight between the Russians and Japanese You .really want to say something j nlout the matter yourself, but you do not get a ehance. "Yes," the ; know-it-all exclaims, "but in many respects it was not a marker to Trafalgar. Why," and then he proceeds to tell you everything, about the noted battle; how many ships and men were engaged, the names of the commanders and a lot of other stuff that you have illier forgotten, or don't care anything about, or isn't true, any ' way. Then he tells you of other sea fights that did, or did not, take j pi. (co a hundred, or more, years ago. ' see ' t This naturally discourages you and you try another tack. You fl.l'.i the conversation, we will say, to hygiene and attempt to say : t tiling concerning the best foods for building up muscle and ' - J z your digestive arraratus in shape. Perhaps you are of the: t. |