nutritive, the
circulatory, the muscular, the bony or the nervous.

At Birth

Every child is born with one of these systems more highly developed,
larger and better equipped than the others.

Type Never Disappears

Throughout his life this system will express itself more, be more
intense and constant in its functioning than the others and no manner of
training, education, environment or experience, so long as he remains in
normal health, will alter the predominance of this system nor prevent
its dictating his likes, dislikes and most of his reactions.

Effect of Eating

If you do not understand why the overaction of one bodily system
should influence a man's nature see if you can't recall more than one
occasion when a square meal made a decided difference in your
disposition within the space of thirty minutes.

If one good meal has the power to alter so completely our personalities
temporarily, is it then any wonder that constant overfeeding causes
everybody to love a fat man? For the fat man is habitually and
chronically in that beatific state which comes from over-eating.

[Illustration: 1 Alimentive the enjoyer]

CHAPTER I

The Alimentive Type

"The Enjoyer"

_Note: Bear in mind at the beginning of this and every other chapter,
that we are describing the extreme or unmixed type. Before leaving this
book you will understand combination types and should read people as
readily as you now read your newspaper._

Those individuals in whom the alimentive system is more highly developed
than any other are called Alimentives. The alimentive system consists of
the stomach, intestines, alimentary canal and every part of the
assimilative apparatus.

Physical Rotundity

A general rotundity of outline characterizes this type. He is round in
every direction. Fat rolls away from his elbows, wrists, knees and
shoulders. (See Chart 1)

The Fat, Overweight Individual

Soft flesh thickly padded over a small-boned body distinguishes the
pure Alimentive type. In men of this type the largest part of the body
is around the girth; in women it is around the hips. These always
indicate a large nutritive system in good working order. Fat is only
surplus tissue--the amount manufactured by the assimilative system over
and above the needs of the body.

Fat is more soft and spongy than bone or muscle and lends to its wearer
a softer structure and appearance.

Small Hands and Feet

Because his bones