any other type.

He is not impressionable, excitable or arousable. Things do not "stir
him up" as they do other people. He is more self-contained,
self-controlled and self-sufficient than any other. He is not easily
carried off his feet and seldom yields to impulse. It is difficult to
get him to do anything on the spur of the moment. He usually has his
evenings, Sundays and vacations all planned in advance and won't change
his schedule.

Not Given to "Nerves"

Literally as well as figuratively the Osseous is not a man of
"nerves." Every fiber of his being is less susceptible to outside
stimuli than that of other types. In this he is the exact opposite of
the Thoracic whose nerves, as we have pointed out, are so finely
organized that he is hypersensitive.

Resists Change

Osseous people do not change anything, from their hair dress to their
minds, any oftener than necessary. When they do, it is for what they
consider overpoweringly good reasons.

These people are not flighty. They have their work, their time and their
lives laid out systematically and do not allow trivialities to upset
them. They take a longer time to deliberate on a proposed line of
action, but once they have made a decision, adhere to it with much
greater tenacity than any other type.

The Constant

People of this type are not fickle nor flirtatious. They love few;
but once having become enamored are not easily turned aside. It is this
type that remains true to one love through many years, sometimes for
life.

The Implacable

The Osseous are not prone to sudden outbursts of temper. But they have
the unbending kind when it is aroused.

Never forgiving and never forgetting is a trait of these people as
contrasted with the Thoracic.

The Alimentive avoids those he does not like and forgets them because it
is too much bother to hate; the Thoracic flames up one moment and
forgives the next; the Muscular takes it out in a fight then and there,
or argues with you about it.

But the Osseous despises, hates and loathes--and keeps on for years
after every one else has forgotten all about it. The "rock-bound
Puritan" type, as stony as the New England land from which it gets its
living, is always bony. The implacable father who turns his child away
from home, with orders "never to darken his door again," always has a
lot of bone in his structure. Those who refuse to be softened into
forgiveness by the years are always of this type.