How to Analyze People on Sight. Elsie Lincoln Benedict

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      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.

      The Alimentive's disposition, nature, character and personality are

      built by and around his alimentary system. He is happiest when

      gratifying it and whenever he thwarts it he is miserable, just as the

      rest of us are when we thwart our predominant system.

      The World Needs Him

      This type has so many traits needed by the world, however, and has

      such extreme capacity for enjoying life that the race, not to mention

      himself, would profit greatly by his denying himself excessive amounts

      of food.

      Enjoyment the Keynote of This Type

      The good things of life--rich, abundant food and everything that

      serves the personal appetites--are the cravings of this type.

      He purchases and uses more of the limousines, yachts and chefs than any

      other three types combined, and gets more for his money out of them than

      others do. The keynote of his nature is personal enjoyment. His senses

      of touch and taste are also especially acute.

      The Fat Man Loves Comfort

      You can tell a great deal about a man's type by noting for what

      classes of things he spends most of his extra money.

      The Alimentive may have no fire insurance, no Liberty bonds, no real

      estate but he will have all the modern comforts he can possibly afford.

      Most of the world's millionaires are fat and Human Analysis explains

      why. We make few efforts in life save to satisfy our most urgent

      demands, desires, and ambitions. Each human type differs in its

      cravings from each of the others and takes the respective means

      necessary to gratify these cravings.

      The Alimentive craves those luxuries, comforts and conveniences which

      only money can procure for him.

      The Fat Millionaire

      When the Alimentive is a man of brains he uses his brains to get

      money. No fat person enjoys work but the greater his brain capacity the

      more will he forego leisure to make money.

      When the Fat Man is in Average Circumstances

      Any man's money-making ambitions depend largely on whether money is

      essential to the satisfaction of his predominating instincts.

      If he is fat and of average brain capacity he will overcome his physical

      inertia to the point of securing for himself and his family most of the

      comforts of modern life.

      The average-brained fat man composes a large percentage of our

      population and the above accounts for his deserved reputation as a

      generous husband and father.

      The Fat Man a Good Provider

      The fat man will give his last cent to his wife and children for the

      things they desire but he is not inclined as much as some other types to

      hearken to the woes of the world at large. The fat man is essentially a

      family man, a home man, a respectable, cottage-owning, tax-paying,

      peaceable citizen.

      Not a Reformer

      He inclines to the belief that other families, other communities,

      other classes and other countries should work out their own salvation

      and he leaves them to do it. In all charitable, philanthropic and

      community "drives" he gives freely but is not lavish nor sentimental

      about it. It is often a "business proposition" with him.

      When the Fat Man is Poor

      Love of ease is the fat man's worst enemy. His inherent contentment,

      accentuated by the inconvenience of moving about easily or quickly,

      constantly tempts him to let things slide. When he lacks the brain

      capacity for figuring out ways and means for getting things easily he is

      never a great success at anything.

      When the extremely fat man's mentality is below the average he often

      refuses to work--in which case he becomes a familiar figure around

      public rest rooms, parks and the cheaper hotel lobbies. Such a man

      finally graduates into the class of professional chair-warmers.

      Fat People Love Leisure

      A chance to do as we please, especially to do as little hard work as

      possible, is a secret desire of almost everybody. But the fat man takes

      the prize for wanting it most.

      Not a Strenuous Worker

      He is not constructed to work hard like some of the other types, as we

      shall see in subsequent chapters. His overweight is not only a handicap

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