ood example of physically frail type, with
slight tendency to bone and muscle. Refined, intellectual, sensitive,
responsive, optimistic, but well-balanced, poised, and keenly
discriminating. Dr. Van Dyke shows his tendency to physical activity in
his love for the out-of-doors. Note large development of upper portion of
head; slight squareness of jaw; height of head above temples, especially
in center; fine texture; excellent balance of features, and calm, poised,
thoughtful, but kindly expression.]

[Illustration: _Photo by American Press Association_.
FIG. 8. Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
Physically frail, but mentally very active. Said to be one of the greatest
living authorities on plant culture. Slight squareness of build indicates
tendency to interest in out-of-door matters, which, on account of large
development of mental qualities, he expresses in an intellectual way.]

NATURAL APTITUDE

The fifth criterion is natural aptitude. Everyone has observed that some
people are naturally commercial. We have seen a boy take a penny to
school, buy a slate pencil or a lead pencil with that penny, and trade
that for an old pocket knife, the knife for something else, and keep on
swapping until he had a gun, a set of chess, a bag of marbles, and several
other important boys' acquisitions, all from that one penny. Another boy
takes penny after penny to school and he never has anything to show for it
You know such boys--and grown people, too. Every individual has some such
aptitudes--either latent or developed, either mediocre or marked--and his
aptitudes fit him better for some one vocation than for any other.

EXPERIENCE

The sixth point to be considered is experience. One might be fitted for a
vocation with all of the five points that we have enumerated, and yet not
have either the education or the training for it. What shall he do?
Theoretically and ideally, every individual should be carefully and
thoroughly trained, from his earliest childhood, for the vocation for
which he is physically, mentally, and morally fitted. But this seldom
happens--and can happen but seldom so long as parents and teachers remain
ignorant of human nature and of work. A hard problem, then, confronts the
young man or young woman past school days and not trained for the right
calling. He or she must decide whether to compromise upon work as nearly
right as possible or to make the necessary sacrifices