before. If
you will recall the men who continued wearing loose, roomy suits long
after the "skin-tight" fashions came in, or the women who kept to long,
full skirts when short ones were the vogue you will note that every one
of them had large joints or long faces.

Bony people find a kind of collar or hat that just suits, and to that
hat and that collar they will stick for twenty years!

Disdains the Fashions

In every city, neighborhood and country crossroads there is always
somebody who defies the styles of today by wearing the styles of ten
years ago.

Every such person is a bony individual--never under any circumstances a
moon-faced, round-bodied one. In every case you will find that his face
is longer, his nose is longer, or his jaw and hands are longer than the
average--all Osseous indications.

When He is Rich

The bony man's adherence to one style or to one garment is not
primarily because he wishes to save money, though saving money is an
item that he never overlooks. It is due rather to his inability to
change anything about himself in accordance with outside influence until
a long time has elapsed.

Doesn't Spend Money Lavishly

The Osseous is, as stated at the head of this chapter, a "stayer" and
this applies to everything he wears, thinks, says, believes, and to the
way he carries on every activity of his life.

No matter how rich he may be he will not buy one kind of car today and
another tomorrow, nor one house this week and another in six weeks.

He uses his money, as all of us do, to maintain his type-habits and to
give freer rein to them, not to change them to any extent. This type
likes sameness. He likes to "get acquainted" with a thing. He never
takes up fads and is the most conservative of all types. Unlike the
Thoracic, he avoids extremes in everything and dislikes anything
savoring of the "showy" or conspicuous.

Not a Social Star

Because he dislikes display, refuses to yield to the new fangled
fashions of polite society and finds it hard to adapt himself to people,
the man of this type is seldom a social success.

He is the least of a "ladies' man" of all the types. The Osseous woman
is even less disposed to social life than the Osseous man because the
business and professional demands, which compel men of this type to
mingle with their fellows, are less urgent with her.

Likes the Same Food

The same "yesterday, today and forever" is the kind of food preferred
by