Show nigh im eyes av W joan arnor R ARE YOU ASHAMED TO SAY 1 I DO NOT KNOW va YOU know the meaning of nobody else does docs either theres no such word but ask that question of ten of your friends and see how many start to hurn bum and hn ha and fish about for somo some kind of a definition that tant to Is a good guess or rather a good bluff A large percentage will they are the ones who yet acquired the polso poise to admit that there Is something they do not know and I 1 an am sorry to say it the proportion of those these who fall into your tittle little trap will probably be greater among women than among men for while many women think us straight as any man women in general cannot match men lu in general when it comes to the faculty of think ing straight of ca calling aling a spade a spade and of not trying to fool themselves the average nver ageman eman when asked about something that he does not know will more readily admit that he does not know thun than the average woman she will be more inclined to bluff it out not so much from motives ot of dishonesty as aa from a penchant for fooling herself with reference to this art of bluffing certain tests were made recently at the university of cincinnati in which the students were asked to define words that did not exist to place quotations from shakespeare which were made mad up for the occasion to designate the authors of certain books which hichi had never been written and the te tests s to revealed that the freshmen bluffed the most and seniors the least that t the ile I 1 least e as t b bluffing was done by students who ranked highest academically the highest record for expositions on nonexistent non existent subjects coming from those whose general record at college was lowest that of course brings us back to the old story that the person who knows most knows when he does not know only the tool fool knows it all A girl complained to me that the old women in her family were oppressive in their insistence in knowl knowing ng it all even in matters that were entirely foreign to them she asked me if this were a quality common with old people if it Is in my opinion they are old people who 11 have pvc gone cone sterile mentally whose minds have atrophied otherwise they would not have tills this quality to tn common with those who never had anything g to give mentally old people whose minds are strong and active alethe are the last ones in the world to be guilty of knowing it nil all for one of tile the compensations of old age n healthy old age Is its tolerance its understanding its real wisdom nc E by the bell syndicate ne |