The Woman Who Knows it All. I have known brilliantly educated women who were of no more value to the world than a paste diamond is to a person of refined taste. There is an education of the head, which, without careful cultivation of the heart and spirit, renders woman more like a thorn in the flesh of her asso- ciates than a jewel upon society's brow. To know languages and sciences, to have read many books, to have a wide knowledge of current events, and to be acquainted with the customs of many lands, sometimes has the effect of making a man or a woman merely an egotist and a bore.
Nothing is so terrible in human form as the woman who knows it all.
An intolerant air is too frequently the accompani- ment of a great deal of book knowledge. We have all encountered the wise woman, who smiles with a sort of patronizing indulgence while we talk, and shows us plainly that she merely waits for us to finish in order that she may explain things to us. The highly educated woman is not often a good listener. She knows so much that other people's idea's bore her. The same can be said of many people who have traveled extensively.