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Show FRANKLIN'S FATHER AND MOTHER DIED OF FIRST ILLNESS Benjamin Franklin used to say of his parents, "I never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness sick-ness but that of which they died, he at eighty-nine and she at eighty-live years of age." lie had inherited iid excellent physical foundation for the making of a .rent man. In a priming shop In London, whither he went at the age of eighteen, eight-een, he astiuished his fellow workers work-ers by abstaining from beer and yet being able to carry a large form of type in each hand where the others carried htr. one In both hands. Franklin kept a score card of virtues vir-tues to be practiced. The first of the rules of conduct reads: "Temperance. "Temper-ance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation." Franklin's philosophic mind came to tile conclusion that the quantity of each kind of exercise is to bo judged not, by the time spent or distance dis-tance covered, "but by the degree of warmth it produces In the body." Considering the customs of his day, he was a remarkable specimen of health, strength and endurance, concedes Dr. James F. Rogers In H.vgeia. |