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Show Explains Scarcity of Really Clever People being clever, must do their biding thoroughly and .successfully,' how can we know they are clever people? May it not well be that people whom we consider dull and stupid are merely clever people busily doing their hiding? I At any rate, this revelation of the hiding process clearly explains why we never, knowingly, meet any clever people. Exchange. i An epigrammatist once wrote: "Clever "Clev-er women hide what they know; clever men hide what they don't know." IIow true It is. IIow wise Is our epigrammatist epigram-matist to observe and remark on this! Now, then: It Is equally true that clever clev-er women hide what they don't know ; and clever men hide what they know. , No one can deny this, wherefore we are forced to the logical conclusion that clever women hide what they know and what they don't know, and clever men hide what they know and what they don't know, nnd so we see that clever people hide everything! This being thus, and as clever people. |