The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin

If we examine an almanac of thelast century, we are struck with the paucity of reading mat ter which sufiiced to cause it to be read to pieces. A title-page, which generally served as a table of contents, and was often ornamented with some frightful wood-cut, was usually followed by an Address to the Courteous Reader. Then came the calendar, each month occupy inga page, including, among other useful facts, a weather prediction for each day or so, and there was no hedging either. High Wind, northwestvvind Raw and Chilly, Frost, and Snow-blast are set down at random by the philomaths with as much confidence and certainty as if they were reporting yesterday'

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