Almanac · A 1776 town · 1732
Poor Richard's Almanack
91Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
Weather, planting, and a proverb. A tool kept the whole year.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
Franklin had stopped writing Poor Richard long before the war. The name stayed, because a house needed a book that was not the Bible and was still kept all year. Planting, money, a joke, a rule for work.
The score is for that use. It is not a claim that Franklin was still the author in 1776.
Folio
Keep Poor Richard's Almanack in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
10/10
Work, thrift, and the day are the whole doctrine.
Household
9/10
A house runs on the calendar. Early to bed is a household rule.
Piety
9/10
Usefulness stands where a creed might. Some of the piety is a proverb.
Courage
9/10
No battle. The courage is doing the small thing on time.
Republic
9/10
A shared calendar is how a town farms and how it meets.
Temperance
9/10
Appetite is the enemy of the maxim. Spend less. Drink less. Rise.
Truth
9/10
The maxims are often true, and some of them are a salesman talking.
Stewardship
9/10
Hung on a nail and used until the year was over. Then the next one.
Live historicallyKeep one practical book where the house can reach it without a screen. Use it this week.