The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-22
Il TAKE LIFE
AS IT CONTEST"
RichmOnd's Recipe For
Keeping Young.
YOUNGEST-LOOI<ING 75-YEAR-
OLD CITIZEN HEREABOUTS,
HAS A BIRTHDAY-NEVE
CHEWED, DRANK, SWORh AND
ONLY SMOKED ONCEl-GIVES
GOOD ADVICE.

OlAhb w OIhhANIAg SWINE NM
ONLY SMOKED ONCE--GIVES
GOOD ADVICE.
=" 1t amt everybody lives to be
seventy-five. They all say I'm the
ngest-looking three-quarter CEN
tury man around here"
John e. Richmond, the we'll
known music teacher of 918 Church
street, celebrated the seventy-ffth
anniversary of his birth in a quiet
manner last Wednesday, his wife's
serious illness forcing him to change
his plans of inviting in seventy-five
friends, and having a good time in
| honor of the occasion.
| Mr.. Richmond enjoys the proud
distinction of being the oldest son of
youngest son, his father being
Nelson G. Richmond, and his grand
father, DR.. Richmond, of Revolution
ary Army fame. East Haddam,
| Conn, was his birthplace. He is the
last of that particular Richmond
clan from which he is descended.
Mr.. Richmond has lived in. Homes
dale since 1865, coming here from
Carbondale, where he lived eleven
years. In the Pioneer City he had
a half interest in the general mer-
camille business conducted by him
self and VIM. H. Richmond at Dun
daft and Salem streets.
Coming to Honesdale in 1865 he
entered the employ of Mr.. Snyder as
clerk in his dry goods store. In
1869 he went into business for him
self as proprietor of the only eXclu-
sive dry goods store in the county.
In 1879 he sold out, and has been
| living a retired life ever since, if
looking after thirteen or fourteen
tenants, and selling 900 pianos, can
be called leading the simple life.
Mr.. Richmond loves to be busy. He
loves to sell a musical instrument,
according to his o, -tatement, as
much as he loves hi nner.
The Citizen man VIII talled to see
Mr.. Richmond wanted Ito find out
'how to keep young"
"By keeping on the bright side of
things" replied Mr.. Richmond. 81
never get the blues. ! have hope
well-founded and haven't any fears
for the future, and I've tried to do
all the good / can and live soberly,
honestly and injure no one. i take
life as it comes to me. l live day by
day. This is my motto. I've lived by
it for years"
Pulling from his left hip-pocket
an old and well-worn diary (Mr.
Richmond has kept a diary for more
than half century, he showed the
newspaperman this entry on the last
page:
[Copied from the ruins of an old
castle in North Wales.
'For Jesus Sake"
"Do all the good you can;
To all the people yOu can;
In all the ways you can;
At all the times you can;
And as long as you can"
"Ive tried to follow that fol
years. l never smoked but one ci
gar, a green Connecticut cigar, and
' that was 65 years ago. don't drinl
; nor chew l always had mint
enough and decision of character
+ enough to say No. Mo, I dom
swear. l sometimes feel like it.
am what you might call correct re
, ligious man. I've been in Sunda!
> school work over so years, starting a
' the Five Points Mission, New York
h in 1853. l had charge of the musi
q in the Carbondale Presbyterian
church for years. l had charge o
the music in the Episcopal churcl
2 here for ten years.
: II am a Presbyterian to the bacl
;. bone. My parents were Puritans.
!, learned to keep the Sabbath holy
v l never have my team out on Sun
J; day / was never allowed to rea
secular newspapers when 1 was
boy
81 can't go slow. l use so muc
l. nerve force, I'd run over a slow mar
n n That spirit l had 35 and 40 year
~ ago is in me now"
- Just such a man as Mr.. Richmond
8 must Cicero have had in mind whe
q he wrote his famous treatise I'D
y Senectute," describing the pleasure
- to be found in a green old ag'
7 founded on youth well-spent