Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-01-18
WHAT 4 CHILD WANTS 70 BE
Girls Desire 60 Teach. hoy. Co ussdis
Tools. wh~n crsuu Tn.

Children IN their carly teens hare
strange ambitions From $500 replies
TO the question. "wha. woald roa like
to do or be when you grow ups'' IL IL
recorded IN the annual report of the de-
rarsnert q instruction In New York
that anong the girls IS per cent wanted
TO be teachers. - per ccut r1iliincrs. II
Per cent clerks and s;enographcrs. 3 per
cent ho1sckeepc-s: storekeepcEs. nnfFrs
and servants. each : per cent. Artists. I
per cent; then follow missionaries, mn.
siciaus, factory hands and those who
hope tn he wives and mothers. each
about threc-fourihs Of per cent. IL IL
indeed poor showing for the desire for
motherhood. What is wrong with our
schooling system that mos; young girls
make up their minds that they would
like TO be teachers and that only three.
fourths of PR cent Of them express
any intCTcs: IN being wife and moibcry
Among the boys who were questioned
the most popular occupations related TO
the traces. Fourteen per cent had this
preference. Next ia Frequency came the
desire to be merchants. IL per cent: then
clerks. : per cent: then farmers. g Per
cent: doctors. about per ccnt: lawyers.
abou. per cent; engineers. nearly 4
PC. cent: teachers ana soldiers. each .
per cent: railroad slrn and sailors. oarl,
-. per olB;: business. per cent. Tho
rest named IS different occupations IL
was noticed that the boys thought that
an occupation that dealt with tools.
plants or animals meant romcihing that
conferred power over ores fellows.
Only in hogs abou. years cid was
there n large preference for such occu.
pations as that Of policeman. fireman CT
railroad man. As be grows older the
| average boy mobiles his desire for the
perilous. until at Il be wants to be q
bank clerk. There Is ono interesting ex,
cep;ion to this. Tho ambition 20 be a
sailor appears at and increases slowly.
eliminating at II.
Here is the composition Of n 10y Of
! IL, parents American, his father n Ia
torcr: when am a man, will 90 e
sea and be n sailor on the stormy ocean.
Then can sec strange and foreign land,
and places. where no man but the sailoi
can so. sss can 20 among the ice
bergs Of TIE antarctic region. and can
spend a nightly winter in some arctic
country. The dark continent holds many
| Joys for the sailor. lie can hunt and
have adventures without other cost thar
walking into them. Because speak In
such glowing terms IL tho sailor doc,
not say that think he has no discern.
forts, for what kind of life does no,
have its full share Of the dangers ana
discomforts: The millionaire frc;s about
the fact That some bank will 60 under
- Eyen the poorest laborcr fru;s
fearing he and his family will starvc e
death when he has no work. And now
hurrah for the sailorr'
And hero is n little end Of the cen
fury old maid of .. Of English ans
American parcniage. whose father IL 9
siaid minister of tho gospel: II want q
marry n man that doesn't smoke. be
cause don't like tho smell of smoke.
want 70 teach school where they will
let inc spank the children. For childrct
kur adj disciplin. want to wear bloom
eTs all the time. want 60 wear a cut
away suit Because IL looks nice viii
bloomeTs. I will wear russo; shoes ans
brown stockings I want Co have N,
hair cut short Becanse a. will d
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