Show FRANKLINS FATHER AND MOTHER DIED OF FIRST ILLNESS benjamin franklin used to say of hla his parents 11 1 I never knew either my mi father or mother to have any ally sick ness but that of which they died he at eighty nine and she at eighty alte aan years rs of age ile he had inherited a an excellent physical foundation for the making of a great man in a printing shop in london whither hr he went ent at the age of eighteen he astonished his fellow workers by abstaining from beer and yet being able to carry a large form of 0 type in each hand where the others carried but one in both hands franklin kept a score card of virtues to be practiced the first of the rules of conduct reads temperance eat not to dullness drink not to elevation franklins philosophic mind came to the conclusion that tile the quantity of each kind of exercise Is to be judged not by the time spent or dig distance covered but by the degree of warmth it produces in the body considering the customs of his day lie he was a I 1 remarkable specimen of health strength and endurance C concedes des dr james F rogers in lly Ily geia gela |