ng between the big meal he wants
and the small one he knows he should have for good brain work.

We are so constructed that brain and stomach--each of which demands an
extra supply of blood when performing its work--can not function with
maximum efficiency simultaneously.

Why Light Lunches

When your stomach is busy digesting a big meal your brain takes a
vacation. This little fact is responsible for millions of light
luncheons daily. The strenuous manual worker can empty a full dinner
pail and profit by it but the brain worker long ago discovered that a
heavy midday meal gave him a heavy brain for hours afterwards.

Clear Thinking and a Clear Stomach

Clear thinking demands a clear stomach because an empty stomach means
that the blood reserves so necessary to vivid thinking are free to go to
the brain. Without good blood coursing at a fairly rapid rate through
the brain no man can think keenly or concentratedly. This explains why
you think of so many important things when your stomach is empty that
never occur to you when your energy is being monopolized by digestion.

Heavy Dinners and Heavy Speeches

All public speakers have learned that a heavy dinner means a heavy
speech.

Elbert Hubbard's rule when on his speaking tours was one every orator
should follow. "Ten dollars extra if I have to eat," said Fra
Elbertus--a far cry from the days when we "fed up" the preacher at
Sunday dinner with the expectation of hearing a better sermon!

Uses His Head

Just as assimilation is the favorite activity of the Alimentive type,
head work is the favorite activity of the large-headed Cerebral. He is
so far removed, evolutionally, from the stomach stage that his stomach
is as much a remnant with him as the brain is a rudiment with the
extreme Alimentive.

The extra blood supply which nature furnishes to any over-developed part
of the body also tends to encourage him in thinking, just as the same
condition encourages the fat man in eating.

Forgets to Eat

An Alimentive never forgets dinner time.

But the Cerebral is so much more interested in food for his brain than
food for his body that he can go without his meals and not mind it. He
is likely to have a book and a cracker at his meals--and then forget to
eat the cracker!

Physical Sensitivity

We are "mental" in proportion to the sensitiveness of our mental
organization. The Cerebral possesses the most highly developed brain
center of any type a