<h3>LOVE AND THE THORACIC</h3>
<p>� The Thoracic in love exhibits the same general traits which
characterize him in all his other relationships.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Most Beautiful Woman</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic woman is the most beautiful<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_284" id="Page_284"></SPAN></span> type of all. She is not
"pretty" like the Alimentive, but her refined features and beautiful
coloring give her a distinctive appearance.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Handsomest Man</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic is also the handsomest man of all. He is tall,
high-chested, wide-shouldered and has the masculine face resulting from
his high-bridged, prominent nose and high cheek bones.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Thoracic Charmer</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic has more of that quality we call "charm" than any other
type. Charm is largely self-expression by tactful methods. Since this
type is the most self-expressive and the most tactful it possesses
naturally this invaluable trait.</p>
<p>Both men and women of this type have an elusive, attractive something in
their personalities that others do not have—a very personal appeal that
makes an immediate impression. It pierces farther beneath the surface of
strangers than other types do on much longer acquaintance. The Thoracic
does not seem a stranger at all. His own confidences, given to you
almost immediately upon meeting you, remove the barriers.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_285" id="Page_285"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Lure of the Thoracic</h4>
<p>� There is about the Thoracic person a lure that others seldom have. You
do not attempt to describe it. You say "he is just different," and he
is. No other type has his spontaneity and instantaneous responsiveness.</p>
<p>So while the Alimentive is always liked, it is in a more mild, easy,
comfortable way. The Alimentive does not stir the blood but has a
strong, tender, even hold on people. The Thoracic, on the other hand,
intrigues your attention, impales it, and holds it.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Love at First Sight</h4>
<p>� The Thoracics fall in love at first sight much more often than other
types. They also cause others to fall in love with them without
preliminaries, for they pursue the object of their affections with a
fire and fury that is almost irresistible.</p>
<p>� Hundreds of persons marry each year who have known each other but a
few days or weeks. In every instance you will find that one of them is a
Thoracic—and usually both. No other type can become so hopelessly in
love on such short notice.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Most Flirtatious</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic is a born philanderer.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_286" id="Page_286"></SPAN></span></p>
<p>He does not mean to mislead or injure, but flirtation is second nature
to him. This comes from the fact that flirtation, more than any other
human experience, contains that adventurous, thrilling element he
desires.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Overheard in Transit</h4>
<p>� We overheard the following conversation in the street car the other
day between two young women who occupied the seat in front of us: "I was
sorry to hurt him," explained the Thoracic. "I did love him last week
and I told him so, but I don't love him any more and I do love somebody
else now." She really loved him—last week!</p>
<p>Thoracics can have a severe case of love, and get just as completely
over it in a week as the rest of us get over the measles.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Joy of Life</h4>
<p>� A joy in living expresses itself in almost everything the Thoracic
does, especially when he is young. Such people appear almost electrical.
These are traits of great fascination and the Thoracic uses them freely
upon others throughout his life.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Always Blushing</h4>
<p>� His over-developed circulatory system causes<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_287" id="Page_287"></SPAN></span> the Thoracic to blush
easily and often. This tendency has long been capitalized by women but
is not so much enjoyed by men.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Most Easily Hurt</h4>
<p>� Because of his supersensitiveness the Thoracic's feelings are more
easily hurt than those of other types, as every one who has ever had a
florid friend or sweetheart will remember.</p>
<p>They forgive quickly and completely, but every little thing said,
looked, or acted by the loved one is translated in terms of the
personal. Bony people especially find it difficult to understand or be
tolerant of this trait in the Thoracic, because it is the exact opposite
of themselves. They call the Thoracic "thin-skinned," and the Thoracic
replies that the bony man has "a skin like a walrus." And each is right
from his own viewpoint.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Chivalrous Thoracic Man</h4>
<p>� With his keen intuitions, his sense of the fitness of things and his
trigger-like adeptness, the Thoracic man easily becomes an attentive and
chivalrous companion.</p>
<p>Where the bony man is often oblivious to the fine points of courtesy,
the Thoracic anticipates his<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_288" id="Page_288"></SPAN></span> friend's every wish and movement, picks up
her handkerchief almost before she has dropped it, opens doors
instantaneously and specializes in those graces dear to the heart of
woman.</p>
<p>He is likely to do as much for the very next lady he meets just as soon
as he meets her. These ready courtesies cost the Thoracic husband as
many explanations as the caressing habit costs the Alimentive.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Breaches of Promise</h4>
<p>� More bona fide breach of promise suits are brought against the
Thoracic man than any other. He thinks rapidly, speaks almost as quickly
as he thinks and about what he thinks.</p>
<p>Consequently many an honorable man has awakened some morning to find he
has to "pay the piper" for an impulsive proposal made to a girl he would
not walk across the street now to see.</p>
<p>Many a girl, too, when she is "in love with love" promises to marry, and
the next day wonders what made her do it.</p>
<p>This is the type of chameleon-like girl whose vagaries and "sweet
uncertainties" form the theme of many short stories, in most of which
she is pictured as "the eternal feminine."<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_289" id="Page_289"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>She Gets Much Attention</h4>
<p>� Nevertheless, many a man prefers this creature of "a million moods" to
the staid and sedate girl of other types. So the Thoracic girl seldom
lacks for attention. She does not have as many intimate friends as the
fat girl, for she is less comforting, and comfort is one of the first
requisites of friendship. But she has a longer line of beaux dancing
attendance upon her, sending her flowers, candy and messages.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Stunning Girl</h4>
<p>� Another reason why the Thoracic girl has more attention from men is
that she is the most smartly-gowned of all the types. The new, the
extreme, the "very latest" in women's clothes are first seen on the
Thoracic girl. She is the type men call "stunning."</p>
<p>Men prefer companions who appear well—whom other men admire. The
Thoracic woman demands the same of the men she goes about with, and for
these two reasons many Thoracics marry those in whom their own type
predominates.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The "Merry Widows"</h4>
<p>� Make a note of the "dashing widows," you<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_290" id="Page_290"></SPAN></span> have known—those who were
called "the merry widows"—and you will recall a large Thoracic element
in each.</p>
<p>For this type of woman, unlike the home-keeping Alimentive, enjoys being
a widow and remains one. She usually has many chances to remarry but her
changeable, gaiety-loving nature revels in the freedom, sophistication
and distinction of widowhood.</p>
<p>The appearance of endless youth given by her alive, responsive
personality deceives the most discerning as to her age. The woman of
fifty who enthralls the youths of twenty-five is usually of the Thoracic
type.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Refuses to Grow Old</h4>
<p>� This woman refuses to grow old, just as the Alimentive refuses to grow
up. She clings to her beauty as does no other type. She it is who
self-sacrificingly starves herself to retain her slenderness, who
massages and exercises and "cold-creams" herself hours a day before the
shrine of Eternal Youth. Her high color, "all her own," is a decided
asset in this direction.</p>
<p>This woman devotes as much attention to her<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_291" id="Page_291"></SPAN></span> grooming at sixty as the
Alimentive does at twenty. For this reason you may any day see two women
of forty together, one an Alimentive and the other a Thoracic—and take
the plump one to be several or many years older than the florid one.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Love the "Bright Lights"</h4>
<p>� Thoracic men and women care more about "the bright lights" than other
types. The Alimentive likes what he calls "a good time"—with fun and
plenty of "refreshments"—but the Thoracic's idea of a good time usually
includes a touch of "high life."</p>
<p>This all comes from his love of thrill and novelty and is innocent
enough. But it leads to misunderstandings and broken homes unless the
Thoracic marries the right type of person.</p>
<p>� The Osseous, for instance, has nothing in his consciousness by which
to understand the desire for excitement which is so strong in the
Thoracic. We have all known good wives and loving mothers whose marital
happiness was destroyed because they could not compel themselves to lead
the drab existence laid out for them by their bony, stony husbands. In
many cases the wife, who only<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_292" id="Page_292"></SPAN></span> wanted a little innocent fun, was less to
blame than her unbending spouse.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Why She Went Insane</h4>
<p>� One day several years ago we drove up to a lonely farmhouse in Montana
just as a tragedy was enacted. The mother was being taken to the state
asylum for the insane. The seven little children watched the strange
performance, unable to understand what had happened. The father, a tall,
raw-boned, angular man was almost as mystified as the children.</p>
<p>"Crazy?" he said, "I don't believe it. Say, what did she have to go
crazy about? She hasn't seen anything to excite her. Why, she's not been
off this farm for twenty years!"<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The "Gay Devil" Husband</h4>
<p>� The same thing happens every day between severe, bony wives and their
florid, frolicking husbands. "She is a perfect housekeeper and a good
wife" exclaim her friends—"why should her husband spend his evenings
away from home?" These questions will continue to be asked until we
realize that being "a good housekeeper and a good wife" does not fill
the bill with a Thoracic man.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_293" id="Page_293"></SPAN></span> A wife who will leave the dinner dishes
in the kitchen sink occasionally and run away with him for a "lark" on a
moment's notice is the kind that retains the love of her florid husband.
A husband who is willing to leave his favorite magazine, pipe, and
slippers to take her out in the evening is the kind a Thoracic woman
likes. She even prefers a "gay devil" to a "stick"—as she calls the
slow ones.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Makes Him Jealous</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic man wants his wife to look well and be pleasing but no
husband wants his wife to be irresistibly attractive to other men. So it
often happens that the Thoracic woman causes her husband much jealousy.</p>
<p>Her youthful actions and distinctive dressing make her a magnet for all
eyes. If he happens to be too different in type to understand her
naturalness and pure-mindedness in this he often suffers keenly.
Sometimes he causes <i>her</i> to suffer for it when they get home.</p>
<p>Human Analysis makes us all more tolerant of each other. It enables us
to know why people act as they do, and, best of all, that they mean well
and not ill most of the time.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_294" id="Page_294"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>Dislikes the Monotonous</h4>
<p>� The Thoracic, you will remember, dislikes monotony. Everything
savoring of routine, sameness—the dead level—wears on him.</p>
<p>Three meals a day three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, with the
same person, in the same room, at the same table, is unspeakably irksome
to him. He may love that other person with completeness and constancy,
but he occasionally demands what Bernard Shaw calls "domestic change of
air."</p>
<p>"My Wife's Gone to the Country," was the biggest song hit of its year
because there were so many florid men who understood just how that man
felt!</p>
<p>� The florid wife is as loving as any other but she heaves a sigh of
relief and invites her women friends in for a party when John goes away
on business.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Not Easy to Live With</h4>
<p>� Thoracic husbands or wives are not as easy to live with as the
Alimentive. They are too affectable, too susceptible to sudden changes
of mood. They live alternately on the crest of the wave and in the
depths, and rob the home of that serenity which is essential to
harmony.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_295" id="Page_295"></SPAN></span></p>
<p>Impulsive tendencies which made the sweetheart adorable are less
attractive in the wife. And hubby's hair-trigger temperament she now
calls just plain temper.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Desirable Traits of Thoracics</h4>
<p>� That they are the most charming in manner, the most tasteful in dress
and the most entertaining of any type constitute the traits which make
the Thoracic husband or wife desirable and attractive.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Live Beyond Means</h4>
<p>� Husbands and wives of this type present this marital problem however:
they tend to live beyond their means. The husband in such a case seldom
confides the true state of his financial affairs to his wife while the
Thoracic wife, bent on making the best possible appearance, finds it
almost impossible to trim down expenditures to fit the family purse.</p>
<p>The habit of entertaining extravagantly and almost constantly also costs
the Thoracic household dear.</p>
<p>� The desire on the part of a Thoracic husband or wife to move
frequently from that particular house, neighborhood, or city presents
another difficulty.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_296" id="Page_296"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>Should Marry Own Type</h4>
<p>� For the reasons stated above and throughout this work, the
predominantly Thoracic person should marry his own type as first choice.
No other can understand his impulsiveness.</p>
<p>His second choice should be a person predominantly of the Alimentive
type. The Alimentive is more like the Thoracic than any other, and in
the places where they differ the Alimentive gives in with better grace
than other types.</p>
<p>The third choice may be a predominantly Muscular person. In the latter
case, however, the Muscular should have either Thoracic or Alimentive
tendencies combined with his muscularity.</p>
<p>Because they are so different as to be almost opposites, and therefore
unable to understand each other, the last person the Thoracic should
marry is the Osseous.</p>
<hr style="width: 10%;" />
<h2>Part Three</h2>
<h3>MARRIAGE AND MUSCULARS</h3>
<p>� The Muscular does not marry early like the Alimentive nor hastily like
the Thoracic. His is a practical nature and his practicality is
expressed<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_297" id="Page_297"></SPAN></span> here as in everything else. Back of his Marriage you will
often find some of the same practical reasons that prompt his other
activities.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Marries Between Twenty-five and Thirty-five</h4>
<p>� Most Musculars are still unmarried at twenty-five when their
Alimentive friends have families and when their Thoracic ones have had a
divorce or two. But few Musculars are unmarried at thirty-five, though
at that age their Osseous and Cerebral friends are often still single.</p>
<p>The Muscular does not marry on nothing, and as he does not star in any
line of work as early in life as the Alimentive or Thoracic he does not
have the means to marry as early in life as they. But he is a splendid
worker, gets something to do and does it fairly well.</p>
<p>The Alimentive spends too much on food and other comforts and the
Thoracic too much on luxuries, but the Muscular, while not mercenary,
saves a larger portion of his income.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Make "Sensible" Marriages</h4>
<p>� So at somewhere around thirty the Muscular is prepared to establish a
home. By that time he has lived past the rash stage and selects a mate
as<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_298" id="Page_298"></SPAN></span> much like himself as possible, in order not to be thwarted in his
aims for "getting somewhere in the world"—aims which dominate this type
all his life.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>A Mate for Wearing Qualities</h4>
<p>� This type selects his mate as he selects his clothes—for wearing
quality. He prefers plain, simple people, for he is plain and simple
himself. They are not carried off their feet by impulse as are some of
the other types. They therefore choose wives and husbands whose lovable
qualities show signs of durability.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Most Positive Lover</h4>
<p>� The Muscular makes love almost as strenuously as he does everything
else. He does not do it especially gracefully like the Thoracic, nor
caressingly like the Alimentive, but intensely and in dead earnest. He
does not cut short the courtship like the Thoracic, nor extend it for
years like the Osseous, but marries as soon as the practical
requirements can be met.</p>
<p>The Alimentive is the most affectionate in love and the Thoracic the
most flirtatious, but the Muscular is the most positive.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_299" id="Page_299"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Fatal Handicap</h4>
<p>� The Muscular has more strong traits than any other type from the
marital point of view, but he has one weakness of such magnitude that it
often counterbalances them. His pugnacity causes him to give way
frequently to violent outbursts of anger. In them he says bitter things
that are almost impossible to forgive.</p>
<p>This type's chief handicap in all his relations is his tendency to fight
too quickly, to say too much when angry, and thus to make enemies.</p>
<p>In marriage this is a serious handicap which loses many an otherwise
ideal husband or wife the chance for happiness.</p>
<p>Another Muscular trait which makes life difficult for his mate is his
tendency to be so generous with outsiders that his family suffers.</p>
<p>Also this type of husband or wife is inclined to sacrifice the social
side of family life to work and thus widen the distance between husband
and wife as the years go on.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Desirable Traits</h4>
<p>� Working capacity, generosity and squareness are qualities making for
the success of the Muscular marriage.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_300" id="Page_300"></SPAN></span></p>
<p>The Muscular wife, more often than any other, helps earn the living when
things go wrong financially.</p>
<p>The Muscular usually dislikes flirtations and gives his mate little
anxiety on this score.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Mates for Musculars</h4>
<p>� The Muscular has four choices in the selection of a mate. There is but
one type he should never marry and that is the Osseous. The stubborness
of the Osseous, when pitted against the Muscular's pugnacity, causes
constant warfare. The predominantly Muscular person should choose a mate
who is also predominantly Muscular. No other type aids him in the
practical affairs of the family's future. But it is well for him when
this Muscular has decided Cerebral tendencies. Second choice for the
Muscular is a mate predominantly Cerebral. The Muscular in this case
furnishes the brawn to work out the plans made by the brain of the
Cerebral, and the combination is one that stands a good chance of
happiness. Third choice is the Thoracic, and fourth choice the
Alimentive.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_301" id="Page_301"></SPAN></span></p>
<hr style="width: 10%;" />
<h2>Part Four</h2>
<h3>THE OSSEOUS IN LOVE</h3>
<p>� Bring to mind all the men and women you have known who waited ten,
twenty or thirty years for the one they had given their hearts to. You
will recall that they all had large bones or large joints for their
bodies. Such people are always predominantly Osseous.</p>
<p>The loved one may marry but the bony man or woman remains faithful; it
must be the one they want or none.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Riddle Solved</h4>
<p>� This fact accounts for some of the incongruous matches in middle or
later life of old friends who seem to be unfitted to each other. Often
one of them has waited many years for the other to consent, for children
to grow up, or for Death to clear the way.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>One Lover Through Life</h4>
<p>� Osseous men and women are so constituted that it is practically
impossible for them to love many times during a lifetime.</p>
<p>Bony people, even when young, have fewer sweethearts than other types.
The large-boned boy or<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_302" id="Page_302"></SPAN></span> girl is usually ill at ease in the presence of
the other sex, avoids social affairs, and does not attract love as early
in life as other types do.</p>
<p>They suffer keenly from the near-ostracism resulting from this, but are
powerless to change it.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Live Apart from Others</h4>
<p>� Because they live more or less apart from their fellows, even as
children, and tend to withdraw into themselves, the Osseous see little
of the other sex, learn little about it and come to think of it as
unapproachable.</p>
<p>As we have seen, the Alimentive feels at ease with the other sex, the
Thoracic charms them, the Muscular cultivates them when he is in
earnest, but the Osseous avoids them. If he does not marry he becomes
more and more awkward in their presence as he grows older. Such a person
will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the
opposite sex.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Marries Less Often</h4>
<p>� This naturally leads to the unmated life which characterizes so many
men and women of the Osseous type.</p>
<p>We asked you to recall the one or two Alimentive<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_303" id="Page_303"></SPAN></span> bachelors and
spinsters you ever knew, the three or four Thoracics and the not more
than half a dozen Musculars who didn't marry. But it will take some time
to enumerate the Osseous people you know who have never married. This
type constitutes a very large proportion of the unmarried.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Most Difficult to Live With</h4>
<p>� When the Osseous does marry he is the most difficult of all types to
live with, because he is inclined to be immovable and unbending.</p>
<p>To give and take has long been considered the secret of happy marriage
and certainly is one of them. But this type finds it almost impossible
to adapt himself to his mate. He wants everything in a certain way at a
certain time and for a certain purpose. Whoever opposes him is pretty
ruthlessly handled.</p>
<p>Another marital liability of this type is his disinclination and
inability to make new friends. He contributes to the family circle only
those few intimates he has had for years.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Likes to Dominate</h4>
<p>� The Osseous is inclined to dominate and often to domineer over his
mate and over his family<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_304" id="Page_304"></SPAN></span> in general. This is as true of the women as of
the men. As we have seen, type and not sex is what causes the big
distinctions between people.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Hen-Pecked Husband</h4>
<p>� Whenever you see a hen-pecked husband look at his wife. You will
always find that she has either large joints, large bones or a square
jaw.</p>
<p>Many times we have heard men declare "they would show such a wife how to
act," but unless they could change her boniness they would find it
difficult to "show her" much of anything.</p>
<p>The reason the husband of such a woman seldom resists is because he is
nine times out of ten an Alimentive or a Cerebral—types that prefer to
be bossed rather than to boss.</p>
<p>The same combination is usually present when the husband dominates the
wife. He is almost invariably bony and she is either Alimentive or
Cerebral. And other women say, "I'd like to show such a husband what I
would do if he tried to tyrannize over ME as he does over her!" But such
a woman often prefers a husband who relieves her of the responsibility
of decisions, and two such people sometimes lead surprisingly happy
lives together.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_305" id="Page_305"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>Mates for the Osseous</h4>
<p>� Therefore the type best fitted to live in harmony with the
predominantly Osseous is the predominantly Alimentive. Second choice is
the predominantly Cerebral, for the reasons stated above. There is no
third choice.</p>
<p>The pure Osseous and pure Thoracic should not marry because they are too
far removed from each other in all their tendencies ever to understand
each other.</p>
<p>The one type the pure Osseous should never mate with is his own. Nothing
but trouble results when two of the extreme bony type marry, for each
has definite views, desires and preferences—and neither can give in.</p>
<hr style="width: 10%;" />
<h2>Part Five</h2>
<h3>LOVE AND THE CEREBRAL</h3>
<p>� The Cerebral type takes most of his love out in dreaming. He is as
impractical about his affections as about all else and often nothing but
hopes come of it. Next to the Osseous he marries less frequently than
any other type.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_306" id="Page_306"></SPAN></span><br/><br/></p>
<h4>Head and Heart in the Clouds</h4>
<p>� The Cerebral often remains single because he can not come down to
earth long enough to propose, or if he does he is so gentle and timid
about it the girl is afraid to trust her life to him.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Timidity His Curse</h4>
<p>� Timidity costs the Cerebral man most of the good things he could
otherwise get out of life. He is almost afraid to fall in love, afraid
to speak after he does and afraid to face the hostile world with two
lives on his hands.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Women Like Him</h4>
<p>� The average woman likes the Cerebral type of man but seldom loves or
adores him. His helplessness appeals to her motherly sympathy.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Can Not Buffet the World</h4>
<p>� But women are afraid to marry the extreme type even when the feeling
he prompts is more than mere protectiveness. They know he can not buffet
the world for them and their offspring.</p>
<p>So, even when they love him best they usually marry the fat salesman,
the Muscular worker who always has a good job, the Thoracic promoter
who<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_307" id="Page_307"></SPAN></span> promises luxury, or the Osseous man who won't take "No" for an
answer.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Always Leap Year for Him.</h4>
<p>� When this type of man does marry it is often due as much to her
proposal as his. He is especially aided in his courtship if "she"
happens to be a quick-spoken Thoracic, a straight-from-the-shoulder
Muscular, or one of those determined Osseous girls.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Much-Loved Cerebral Woman</h4>
<p>� The Cerebral woman is more fortunate in achieving marriage than the
Cerebral man. The impracticality which so seriously handicaps him, since
the husband is supposed to support the family, is not quite so much of a
handicap to her.</p>
<p>Men who love her at all, love her for her tenderness, conscientiousness
and delicacy and deem it a pleasure to work for her, and she is one type
of woman who usually appreciates it.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Cerebral's Weaknesses</h4>
<p>� The tendency to dream his life away instead of doing tangible things
that assist in the progress of the family is the greatest marital
handicap of the Cerebral type.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_308" id="Page_308"></SPAN></span></p>
<p>Inability to make money results directly from this, and since money is
so important in the rearing and educating of children, those who can not
get it are bound to face hardship and disillusionment.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>The Saddest Sight</h4>
<p>� The most pathetic sight to be seen anywhere is that of the delicate,
intellectual man who loves his family dearly, has the highest ideals and
yet is unable to provide for them.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>When Love Flies Out the Window</h4>
<p>� "When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window" is a saying
as old as it is sad.</p>
<p>� And it is as true as it is both old and sad.</p>
<p>Despite the philosophers—who are all Cerebrals themselves!—love should
grow in sheltered soil, protected from the buffetings of wind and storm.
Without means no man can provide this protection. Happy marriage, as we
have seen, is based on the cultivation of the strong points and the
submergence of the weak ones of each partner. Poverty does more to bring
out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the
world. So, although this type is high-minded, more idealistic in his
love than any other type and has fewer<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_309" id="Page_309"></SPAN></span> of the lower instincts, he makes
less of a success of marriage than any other type.<br/><br/></p>
<h4>Mates for the Cerebral</h4>
<p>� Because he lives in his mind and not in his external world the
predominantly Cerebral must marry one who also is predominantly
Cerebral.</p>
<p>The reading of books, attendance at good plays, and the study of great
movements constitute the chief enjoyments of this type and if he has a
mate who cares nothing for these things his marriage is bound to be a
failure.</p>
<p>The Cerebral he marries should, however, be inclined to the Muscular
also.</p>
<p>Second choice for this type is the predominantly Muscular and third
choice is the Osseous. The firmness of the latter is often a desirable
element in the combination, for the Cerebral does not mind giving the
reins over to his Osseous mate; he does not like driving anyhow.</p>
<p>The last type of all for the pure Cerebral to marry is the pure
Alimentive because it is farthest removed from his own type. These two
have very little in common.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_310" id="Page_310"></SPAN></span></p>
<blockquote><p><i>Remember, in marriage, TYPE is not a substitute for LOVE. Both are
essential to ideal mating. People contemplating matrimony are like
two autoists planning a long journey together, each driving his own
car. Whether they can make the same speed, climb the same grades
"on high" and be well matched in general, depends on the TYPE of
these two cars. But it takes LOVE to supply the gas, the
self-starters and the spark plugs!</i></p>
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