How to Analyze People on Sight

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Once in California, where no city block is complete without its
cafeteria, we took a committee from one of our Human Analysis classes to
six of these big establishments one noontime. To illustrate to them the
authenticity of the facts we have stated above we prophesied what the
fat ones would select for their meals.

Without exception their trays came by heaped with pies, cake, cream,
starchy vegetables and meat, just as we predicted.


A Short Life But a Merry One

According to the statistics of the United States Life Insurance
Companies fat people die younger than others. And the Insurance
Companies ought to know, for upon knowing instead of guessing what it is
that takes us off, depends the whole life insurance business. That they
consider the extremely fat man an unsafe risk after thirty years of age