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Show Chinese Seven Ages. (Washington Post.) A French officer. Louis de Chantilly. tells in Paris Gil Bias of his discovery in a Budhist convent iu the mountains of Tonkin of a dusty manuscript containing con-taining the Chinese version of the seven ages of man. "At . 10 years old," says the writer, whose name has long been forgotten, "the boy has a heart and a brain ns soft as the tender shoots of a young bamboo. At 20 he is like a green banana: ba-nana: he is just beginning to risen in warm rays ot common sense. ' "Thirty years sees him developed into a buffalo. He is strong and lusty, full of bodily and mental vigor. This is the true age- of love; it is the age for him to marry at. "At 40 yars the prosperous man lias grown to be a mandarin and wears a coral button. But it would be truly indiscreet in-discreet to confide to him at this early-age early-age any functions calling for judicial intelligence or calm. ' "When he reaches 50 years, however, although he has grown stout and fleshy, he is fit to hold any municipal or state office: he can administer a city or a province or perform any official duty. "But at 60 years he is old. Handicrafts Handi-crafts and al! active bodily activities are beyond him. He gives his dependents depend-ents and clients advice. That is all he is fit for. "At 70 he is just a drv rice straw. He has only one care to husband the breath of life that is left in him. to preserve it, even by artificial means. His sons must assume the care of his estate and the performance of his duties." |