How to Analyze People on Sight

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Always Ready for Food

Substantial viands can be served to him any hour of the day or night
with the certainty of pleasing him. He loves a banquet, _provided he is
not expected to make a speech_. The fat man has a harder time than any
other listening to long speeches.

The fashion of trying to mix the two most opposite extremes--food and
ideas--and expecting them to go down, was due to our misunderstanding of
the real nature of human beings. It is rapidly going out, as must every
fashion which fails to take the human instincts into account.


Avoids Sports

No prizes lure a fat man into strenuous physical exercise or violent
sports. Although we have witnessed numerous state, national and