New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Dr. Dukey a German specialist. as the result OF
numerous and systematic observations on sohool
children and older students, fixes the amount OF
Intellectual work compatible with the normal de-
yelopment as foIlows For pupils from five 70
eigh. years of age. ten hours week; eight TO ten
years, twelve hours; ten to twelve years, twenty
one hours; twelve to fourteen years. twenty-five
hours: fourteen fifteen years. thirty hours; hf-
teen to sixteen years. thirtyhve hours; sixteen to
seventeen years. forty hours; seventeen to eighteen
years, forty-fve hours, and eighteen to nineteen
years, the maximum of fifty hours.
rHUDs FROM THE PADDED CELL
How much did philadelphia Pa?
Whose grass did K. c; MOI
How much does Cleveland o?
What was It made Chicago Ina
She would Tacoma wash, in spite
OF Baltimore Md.
When Hartford and New-Haven Conn.
Could Noah build Little Rock Ark
If he had no Guthrie Ok?
We call Minneapolis MINI.
Why not Annapolis Ann?
I'll bet Topeka Kan
But, now you speak of ladies'. what
A Butte Montana isl
ia treat that Jackson Miss.
Would Denver Colo Cop because
And. tho my Portland Me doth Iowa.
I threw my Portland Ore?
-LippincocrS~
We are indebted to Yves. Virginia reader for
the following advertisement from THE William
West Virginian";
ION account of the sickness Of Miss Sophia
Eichengreen one Of the firm of Eichengreen & Co..
she had TO go away and could not attend to her
department and we will have TO be compelled TO
sell her stock at greatly reduced price to make
room for her spring stock; she will be here about
March 18th, with full spring line greater than
has Williamson before We will ha
compelled to git rid of this stock, prices viii no.
stop would be glad for you to in and
examine prices. we will start on January IS. 1906.
and will last fer 10 days..
She Couldn't Draw It;-A school teacher one day
pupils that each draw what he or she wouiaiike to
At the end of the lesson one little girl showed
''WhSs SAID the teacher. isn't there anything
& said dd the little hg girl II would IKE to be mar
One advantage to the Inhabitants OF New Mexico
from statehood. when 1t comes with a changed
name. will be the lifting Of cloud from the title
OF the New-Mexicans. "The Albuquerque Mining
Journal protests thus: "In the whole territory
of New-Mexico there are, at a liberal estimate
not three hundred Mexicans. all told. and mestizos
practically none at all. Possibly two-ffths OF our
people are all Of Spanish descent, but. with very
few exceptions. they have been born under the
American flag, American soil, and educated In
American public schools, and to call them Next
cans is just as improper and unfair as IL would
be TO call Theodore Roosevelt a Dutchman be-
cause his ancestors may have come from Holland
We do not ask or expect any special favors at the
hands Of our Eastern neighbors but we think wa
are entitled to fair play. Let US have a square
deal"
a Happy Thought.-'"rhe Inevitable has cor,a,s
publication NS' Su'pSnu
g, What do you mean?', asked the astounaed editor
factory" "'0Ss s>i'is-
They are; but there is further hone E>,ar,,
known evil has been investigated by us or our ce
temporarieS' - ~ VI our con-
81 have itr' cried the editor after . ,,o,,u,..
anxious thought. Well inyestieafa uo,Ineat ,.
gators."-Judgo si'o AhVesc-