| Show FRANKLINS FATHER AND MOTHER DIED OF FIRST ILLNESS benjamin franklin used to say of tits parents 1 I never knew alther my father or mother to have any sickness hot but that of which they died he nt at eighty olne nine and she at eighty five years of age ile ho had inherited na an excellent physical foundation tor for tho the making of a great man in a printing shop in london whither he want went at the of eighteen he astonished hla his fellow workers by abstaining from beer and yet being able to carry a large form of tape in each hand blind where the others carried but one in both hands franklin kept a score card of virtues to be practiced tile the first alist of the rules of conduct rends reads temperance eat not to dullness dulane ss drink riot not to elevation elc Tation franklins philosophic mind came to tile lie conclusion that hint tile the quantity of each kind of exercise is to be judged jan dg ed rici not t by the e t time im e sp spent e n t or d distance 1 s bd jhb org e ir covered e r but u t b by y t the h e degree r e e of warmth it produces in the body considering the customs of his day lie he was a remarkable specimen of health strength and endurance concedes dr james F rogers in |
