Naturally, there are fat men, also, who are honest and high-principled in their intentions and who still have not fitted themselves for their true vocation in life.  Such men, like those who are physically frail and honest, drag through a miserable existence, never fully realizing their possibilities, or expressing themselves; never finding an outlet for their real talents; never making the success of life which they might have made with sufficient training and in their true vocations.

THE MAN OF BONE AND MUSCLE

Just as there were, doubtless, thousands of men too frail or too corpulent for physical work who were compelled to do it in the days when practically all men were either farmers or carpenters and builders, so to-day there are thousands of men far too active for clerical work who are compelled to do it because certain circles in society have a prejudice against manual labor.  There is a type of man whose bony and muscular system predominates in his organization.  This type of man loves the out-of-doors; freedom is to him a physical and moral necessity.  He hates, and even grows irritable under, restraint.  He demands physical activity; his muscles call for exercise; his whole physical being is keen for life in the open, with plenty of activity.  Yet this type of man, by thousands, is sentenced to spend his life behind the counter or chained to a desk.  He is as unhappy there, and almost as badly placed, as if he were, indeed, in prison.  Look around the parks, the roads, the athletic fields, the lakes and streams, the woods, and all out-of-door places in this country and you will find this man taking a brief rest from his prison cell, engaged in strenuous forms of muscular activity—­tennis, golf, baseball, football, lacrosse, cross-country running, boating, swimming, yachting, motoring, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, exploring, mountain climbing, ranching—­in many ways seeking to find an outlet for his stored-up physical energy.

WORK FOR THE ACTIVE MAN

There is plenty of room for the mental capacity, the executive ability, and the splendid organizing genius of this type of man in outdoor work.  Our great forests and fields are not producing twenty-five per cent of the amount of wealth that they should produce, under even such scientific methods as are known at present.  But these are only the beginning.  There is an opportunity for those with both mental and physical aptitudes to undertake the solution of the problem.  The resources of the universe are infinite.  There is no parsimony in Nature.  There is plenty and to spare for all.