afterwards. The Muscular is serious in business, not a
jollier like the Alimentive, nor a thriller like the Thoracic, and he
wants you to be the same.

_Remember, the chief distinguishing marks of the Muscular, in the order
of their importance, are LARGE, FIRM MUSCLES, A SQUARE JAW and SQUARE
HANDS. Any person who has these is largely of the Muscular type, no
matter what other types may be included in his makeup._

CHAPTER IV

The Osseous Type

"The Stayer"

Men and women in whom the Osseous or bony framework of the body is more
highly developed than any other system are called the Osseous type.

This system consists of the bones of the body and makes what we call the
skeleton.

Just as the previous systems were developed during man's biological
evolution for purposes serving the needs of the organism--first, a
stomach-sack, then a freight system in the form of arteries to carry the
food to remoter parts of the body, and later muscles with which to move
itself about--so this bony scaffolding was developed to hold the body
upright and better enable it to defend and assert itself.

[Illustration: 7 Osseous "the stayer"]

Man is a creature who, in spite of his height, walks erect. He can so do
only by means of the support given him by his bony framework. The
human body is like a tall building--the muscles are like the mortar and
plaster, the bones are like the steel framework around which everything
else is built and without which the structure could not stand upright.

How to Know Him

Prominent ankles, wrists, knuckles and elbows are sure signs that such
an individual has a large osseous or bony element in his makeup.

When you look at any person you quickly discern whether fat, bone or
muscle predominates in his construction. If fat predominates he leans
toward the Alimentive, no matter what other types he may have in
combination; if firm, well-defined muscles are conspicuous, he is
largely Muscular; but if his bones are _proportionately large for his
body_ he has much of the Osseous type in his makeup.

The "Raw-Boned" Man

"Raw-boned" exactly describes the appearance of the extreme Osseous.
(See Chart 7)

Such a man is a contrast to others in any group and a figure with which
all of us are familiar. But that his inner nature differs as widely
from others as his external appearance differs from theirs is something
only recently discovered.

As we proceed through this chapter you will be