d 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.

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.

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.

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Part Three

MARRIAGE AND MUSCULARS

The Muscular does not marry early like the Alimentive nor hastily like
the Thoracic. His is a practical nature and his practicality is
expressed here as in everything else. Back of his Marriage you will
often find some of the same practical reasons that prompt his other
activities.

Marries Between Twenty-five and Thirty-five

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.

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.

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.

Make "Sensible" Marriages

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 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.

A Mate for Wearing Qualities

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.

The Most Positive Lover

The Muscular makes love almost as strenuous