hoice the
Alimentive.

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Part Four

THE OSSEOUS IN LOVE

Bring to mind all the men and women you have known who waited ten,
twenty or thirty years for the one they had given their hearts to. You
will recall that they all had large bones or large joints for their
bodies. Such people are always predominantly Osseous.

The loved one may marry but the bony man or woman remains faithful; it
must be the one they want or none.

The Riddle Solved

This fact accounts for some of the incongruous matches in middle or
later life of old friends who seem to be unfitted to each other. Often
one of them has waited many years for the other to consent, for children
to grow up, or for Death to clear the way.

One Lover Through Life

Osseous men and women are so constituted that it is practically
impossible for them to love many times during a lifetime.

Bony people, even when young, have fewer sweethearts than other types.
The large-boned boy or girl is usually ill at ease in the presence of
the other sex, avoids social affairs, and does not attract love as early
in life as other types do.

They suffer keenly from the near-ostracism resulting from this, but are
powerless to change it.

Live Apart from Others

Because they live more or less apart from their fellows, even as
children, and tend to withdraw into themselves, the Osseous see little
of the other sex, learn little about it and come to think of it as
unapproachable.

As we have seen, the Alimentive feels at ease with the other sex, the
Thoracic charms them, the Muscular cultivates them when he is in
earnest, but the Osseous avoids them. If he does not marry he becomes
more and more awkward in their presence as he grows older. Such a person
will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the
opposite sex.

Marries Less Often

This naturally leads to the unmated life which characterizes so many
men and women of the Osseous type.

We asked you to recall the one or two Alimentive bachelors and
spinsters you ever knew, the three or four Thoracics and the not more
than half a dozen Musculars who didn't marry. But it will take some time
to enumerate the Osseous people you know who have never married. This
type constitutes a very large proportion of the unmarried.

Most Difficult to Live With

When the Osseous does marry he is the most difficult of all types to
live with, because he is inclined