Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-19
THE AUTOBIOC OCRAPffY OF A PENNSYLVANIA
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speakers tonight and furnish relief
have from and heard
here and being that known at all is avowed
Pennsylvania Duchman inclined to think that what
retary had mind bringing forward of bear
batting IT, therefore, should be disappointed the
substance Of what entertain the hope
that If had had plenty of time and nothing to do might have
prepared something entertaining instructive and complimentary
did the speakers who have preceded me-
Before coming from home put into pocket little
book compiled by Nathaniel Dwight and published Hartford in
the State System
the Geography of the Worldly Way of Question and Answer
Principally Designed Children and Common SUBJ
administered babes and children they
were expected commit the given here and to
rece them to their attentive teachers read from the questions
and answers:
"'what the general characteristics people
England?
"They orderly people They
formed in general They humane and friendly wishing we'll
to the human They plain and simple and
the whole they form perhaps the pleasing and happy
ciety in the world.
What is the temper of the people of New England7'
They frank and easily irritated but easily
pacfed They the time bold enrprising
educated housewifery excellent companions
houeepers spending their reading books of useful
information and rendering themselves only useful ambe
and pleasing.
"'What is the of science in New England"
1T greatly cultivated and generally among
the inhabitants than in any other part of the world.
What is the character of the Pennsyvanians?'
Pennsylvania is inhabited by variety people,
Many of the yeomanry of this greatly
the En- ande for the are impatient of good poy
order regularity the
and loyal.
lessons thus early taught have been we'll learned re-
witty gentlemen who respond these festive occasions
called reply which approval received
the applause of the assembled membersBnjamin Franklin
Discoverer of Philadelphia
"The keystone and Plymouth Rock"
ain admit the fact concealed in that
witcsm that concede that Franklin was
the doverer of Philadelphia When the
civilization which had been gathering centuries had
made their the Atlantic and had
extended beyond the Mississippi and reached the base
Mouhtans-thn the potato bug discovered the potato
seventeen walked the
street to Fourth He youth scany may say of
less morals He the accumulated shipping wharves
the State House and warehouses growing
community and in the markehouse which along center
of the street he the rich products which had
the farms of Lancaster and Chester Counties spectacle
the like of which before had his and-Benamn
Franklin discovered Philadelphia For sixty years
streets of this city, beamg bnevoene upon
of substance and influence casting cheerful gances upon
lustfu He lived good old
he died. his head stored with worldly WISDOM his
with the accumulation his
him autobiography which, in his way
how he personally had organized all the charitable
institutions that had while he resident this
city, This autobiography beautiful structure
the different languages of Europe and he gained
Over the library which
that learned scholar James Logan