Show AS CHINESE SEE SEVEN AGES oriental ph lo sopher pictures the course of the life of man A french officer louis de chantilly Chant llly tells in paris gil bias of his discovery in a buddhist consent in the moun bains of tonkin of a dosty manuscript containing the chinese version of the seven abes of man at ten years old says abe writer whose name has long been forgotten the boy has a heart and a brain as soft as th tender shoots of a young bamboo at 20 he Is 1 a green banana he Is just beginning to ripen in warm rays of common sense thirty years sees him developed into a buffalo he Is strong and lusty full ol 01 bodily and mental vigor this Is the true age ot love the age or him to marry at at 40 years the prosperous man has grow n to be a mandarin and wears a coral button but it would be truly indiscreet to conand to mm at this early age any functions calling for judicial ludi cial intelligence or calm when be reaches Q years haw ever although he has grown stout and fleshy he Is fit to hold any municipal 01 state offee he can administer a city or a province or perform any official duty but at 60 years he Is old handl crafts and all active bodily activities are beyond him he gives his depend ants and clients advice that Is all he Is fit for at 70 he Is just a dry rice straw he has only one care to husband the breath ot life that Is left to him to iredene it even by artificial means his sons must assume the care of his estate and the performance of hia duties |