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Show WHEN A KKIXOW KNOWS IT ALT. There are but few country towns in existence but what have some one or more persons who "know it all." That is, they fondly imagine they know it. all and most people give them credit for being better posted on everything and everybody than their neighbors are. Rut are they? The fellow who is a "know it all" is also most generally a free talker. He trades information for information, informa-tion, gossip for gossip, and scandal for scandle. Thus it is that he is often able to impart certain unimportant information informa-tion to his associates in a "strictly -onlidential manner," giving the impression im-pression that he has been in close touch with the powers that be. Hut when you sift it down he has simply passed along, with embellishments embellish-ments of his own, information that is more or less of a public nature, and which would have reached the public in the usual routine in the course of a few days. As a matter of fact, the "know it all" man seldom knows in advance of the really important affairs of life or of the commercial world, for no one .ares to impart such information to '.he one who knows it all and tells all he knows. Po not tie to the man who knows it all, for in all probability he knows less than you. |
