| Show FRANKLINS FATHER AND MOTHER DIED OF FIRST ILLNESS benjamin franklin used to say of his parents 1 I never knew either my father or mother to have bare any sickness but that of which they died lie he at eighty nine and she at eighty uve five years of age ile he had bad inherited an excellent physical foundation for the making of 0 a great man in a printing shop in london whither he went at the age of eighteen he astonished his fellow workers by abstaining from beer and yet being able to carry a large form of type in each hand where the 4 others carried but one in both hands franklin kept a score card cara of virtues to be practiced the first of the rules of conduct reads temperance rat kat not to dullness drink not to elevation franklins philosophic mind ciame came to the conclusion that the quantity ot of each kind of exercise la Is to be judged not by the time spent or distance covered but by the degree of warmth it produces in the body considering the customs of his bis day be was a remarkable specimen of health strength and endurance concedes dr james F bogers in Ely hygeia gela |
