by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
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¶ The bony man does not like people who try to speed him up, hurry him, or make him change his habits. Flashy people irritate him. But his worst aversions are the people who try to dictate to him. This type can not be driven. The only way to handle him is to let him think he is having his own way.
¶ Amenable people who never interfere with him yet lend themselves to his plans, desires and eccentricities are the favorites of this type.
¶ No diseases can be said to strike the Osseous more frequently than any other type.
But moodiness, fear?especially financial fear?long-sustained hatreds and resentments, and lack of change are indirectly responsible for those diseases which bring about the end, in the majority of cases.
¶ Martial, classical music and ballads are favorites with the Osseous. Old-time tunes and songs appeal to him strongly.
Jazz, which the Alimentive loves, is disliked by most bony people.
¶ Only a few kinds of reading, a few favorite subjects and a few favorite authors are indulged in by this type.
He will read as long as twenty-five years on one subject, master it and ignore practically everything else. When he becomes enamored of an author he reads everything he writes.
Reading that points directly to some particular thing he is really interested in makes up many of his books and magazines.
He is the kind of man who reads the same newspaper for half a century.
¶ His great endurance, capacity for withstanding hardship, indifference to weather, and his sane, under-eating habits are the chief physical assets of this type.
¶ This type has no physical characteristics which can be called liabilities except the tendency to chronic diseases. Even in this he runs true to form?slow to acquire and slow to cure.
¶ Hiking and golf are the favorite sports of this type because these demand no sudden spurts of energy. He likes them because they can be carried on with deliberation and independence. He does not care for any sport involving team work or quick responses to other players. Except when combined with the Thoracic type he especially avoids tennis.
¶ Serious plays in which his favorite actors appear are the entertainments preferred by this type. He cares least of all for vaudeville.
¶ The Osseous has no traits which can properly be called social assets. His general uprightness comes nearest to standing him in good stead socially, however.
¶ Stiffness, reticence, physical awkwardness and the inability to pose or to praise are the chief social handicaps of this type.
¶ The Osseous is not emotional and can not be said to possess any assets that are purely emotional.
¶ The lack of emotional fervor and enthusiasm prevents this type from impressing others.
¶ Keeping his word, orderliness and system are the chief business assets of this type.
¶ A disinclination to mix, the inability to adapt himself to his patrons and a tendency to hold people too rigidly to account are the business handicaps of the Osseous.
¶ Constancy and faithfulness are his chief domestic assets.
¶ Tightness with money, a tendency to be too exacting and dictatorial, and to fail to show affection are the things that frequently prevent marriage for the Osseous and endanger it when he does marry.
¶ The Osseous should aim at being more adjustable to people and to his environment in general. He should try to take a greater interest in others and then show it.
