around his stomach--and stomachs do not read!

Naturally Realistic

The fat man has the child's natural innocence and ignorance of subtle
and elusive things. He has the same interest in things and people as
does the child; the child's indifference to books, lectures, schools and
everything abstract.

Physical Assets

"I believe I could digest nails!" exclaimed a fat friend of ours
recently. This perfect nutritive system constitutes the greatest
physical superiority of the Alimentive. So highly developed is his whole
stomach department that everything "agrees" with him. And everything
tends to make him fat.

As Irvin Cobb recently said: "It isn't true that one can't have his cake
and eat it, too, for the fat man eats his and keeps it--all."

Physical Liabilities

A tendency to over-eat results naturally from the highly developed
eating and digesting system of this type but this in turn overtaxes all
the vital organs, as stated before. Also, the fat man's aversion to
exercise reduces his physical efficiency.

The pure Alimentive and the alimentively-inclined should learn their
normal weight and then keep within it if they desire long lives.

Social Assets

Sweetness of disposition is one of the most valuable of all human
characteristics. Fat people possess it more often and more unchangingly
than any other type. Other social assets of this type are amenableness,
affability, hospitality and approachableness.

Social Liabilities

Gaining his ends by flattery, cajolery, and various more or less
innocent little deceptions are the only social handicaps of this type.

Emotional Assets

His unfailing optimism is the most marked emotional quality of this
type. Nothing can be so dark that the fat person doesn't find a silver
edge somewhere. So in disaster we always send for our fat friends. In
the presence of an amply-proportioned individual everything looks
brighter. Hope springs eternal in human breasts but the springs are
stronger in the plump folks than in the rest of us.

Money spending is also a marked feature of the fat man. His emotions are
out-going, never "in-growing." A stingy fat man is unknown.

Emotional Liabilities

A tendency to become spoiled, to pout, and to take out his resentments
in babyish ways are the emotional weaknesses of this type. These, as you
will note, are the natural reactions of childhood, from which he never
fully emerges.

Business Assets

The ability to