Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-18
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO ss
Girls Desire to Teach, isoss 10 Hara,.
Tools, When Grown Up,


Girls Desire to Tenei, Boys 10 Bans,.
Tools, When Grown Up.
Children in their carly teens baro
strange ambitions. From 2, 800 rerliao
to the question, What would Won Ika
to do or be when you grow upYn II y
recorded in the annual report Of the do
partment of instruction in New yorL
that among the girls SO per cent wantaS
to be teachers, "A per cent milliners II
per cent clerks and stenographers. 2 nas
cent housekeopers; storekeepers. purses
and servants, each per cent; srtists
per cent; then follow missionaries. mn
gicians, factory hands and those who
hope to bo wives and mothers. eacb
about three.fourths of 1 per cent. II i
indeed a poor showing for the desire for
motherhood. What is wrong with onr
schooling system that most young oirls
make up their minds that they wonld
like to be teachers, and that only three.
fourths of per cent of them express
any interest in being wife and mother,
Among the boys who were questioned
the most popular occupations related To
the trades. Fourteen per cent had this
preference. Next in frequency came the
desire to be merchants, 10 per cent; then
clerks, Z per cent; then farmers, 6 per
cent; doctors, about per cent; LAWYERS
about 5 per cent; engineers, nearly 4
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each
per cent; railroad men and sailors. each
20 per cent; business. 2 per cent. The
1T ,,a,,,od % 5a3forot,t f,oor,,o2;o,.z -
was noticed that the boys thought that
IN occupation that dealt with tools
plants or animals meant something that
conferred power over ones fellows
Only in boys about z years old was
there a large preference for such ooou.
pations as that of policeman, fireman OF
railroad man. AS he grows older the
average boy modifes his desire for the
pcrilous, until at IA he wants to be
bank clerk There is one interesting ex.
oeption 10 this The ambition to be a
sailor appears at Z and increases slowly,
eliminating at IA.
Here is tho composition of a boy Of
Il, parents American, his father q la.
borer: When I a. {. I...ss, ill 30 to
sea and be a sailor on the stormy ocean.
Then I can see strange and foreign lands
and places, where no man but the saii9t
can go. can go among the ice.
bergs Of the antarctic region, and can
spend a nightly winter in some arctic
country. The dark continent holds many
joys for the sailor. He can hunt and
have adventures without other cost than
walking into them. Because I speak in
such glowing terms of the sailor does
not say that l think he has no diseom-
forts, for what kind of life does not
have its full share of the dangers and
diseomferts? The millionaire frets about
the fact that some bank will go under
Even the poorest laborer frets,
fearing ne and his family will starye to
death when he has no work. And now,
hurrah fer the sailorP3
And hero is a little end of the cen.
fury old maid Of 8. of English and
American parentage, whose father is q
staid minister of the gospel: 4 want to
marry a man that doesn't smoke, be.
cause I don like the smell of smoke
want to teach school where they will
let mo spank tho children. For children
kncad disciplin. | want to wear bloom
ors all the time. | want to wear a cut
away suit. Because it looks nice witt
boomers. I will wear russell shoes ant
brown stockings l want to have my
hair cut short, Because it will d
eoler New York Press.