Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-04-01
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Giris Desire to gsaail. fsoss 10 Handle
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 Tools, WAsn Grown Up.
 Children in their curly icons have strange ambitions From ?, 500 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow up?'' it is recorded in tho annual report of the de- partment of instruction in New York that among the girls 38 per cent wanted to be teachers, 24 per cent miliners, Il per cent clerks and stenographers, 8 per cent housekeepers; sforekeepers, nurses and servants, each 2 per cent; artists, per cent; then follow missionaries, mu- sieians, factory hands and those who hope to be wives and mothers, each about three.fourths of 1 per cent. It is indeed a poor showing for the desire for motherhood What is wrong with our schooling system that most young girls make up their minds that they would like to be teachers, and that only three fourths of 1 per cent of them express any interest in being a wife and mother2
 Among the boys who were questioned the most popular occupations related to the trades. Fourteen per cent had this preference. Next il frequency came the desire to be merchants. 12 per cent; then clerks. per cent; then farmers, per cent; doctors, about 5 per cent; lawyers, abont per cent engineers, nearly 1 per cent; teachers and soldiers, each per cent; railroad men and sailors, each 216 per cent; business, ; per cent. The rest named 35 different occupations. It WAS noticed that the boys thought that an occupation that dealt with tools, plants or animals meant something tbat conferred power over one'a fellows. Only in boys about I years old was there q large preference for such oceu. pations as that of policeman, fireman CT railroad man. As he grows older the average boy modifies his desire for the perilous, until at If he wants to be | bank clerk There is one interesting ex. oeption to this The ambition to bo q sailor appears at 7 and increases slowly, eliminating at Il
 IIere is the composition of a boy of II. parents American. his father Ia. borer When l am Il man, I will go ta sea and be a sailor on the stormy ocean. Then can see strange and foreign lands  and places, where no man but thesailor can go. Y < can go among tho ico. bergs 8f the antarctic region, and I can spend a nightly winter ill 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 l speak in such glowing terms of the sailor does not say that 1 think he has no diseon- forts, for what kind of life does nct hafe its full share of the dangers and diseomforts? The millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will so under. X EYen the poorest laborer frets, fearing he and his family will staryo td death when ire has no work. And now, hafrah fer the sailof!'3
 Aud here is . little end of the cen. tury old maid Of 3, of English ane American parentage, whose father is [ staid minister of the gospel; T want tt marry man that doesn't smoke, be- cause don like the smell of smoke. want to teach school where they will let mo spank tho children For children knead ,lisciplin ! want to wear bloom. CTS all the time. 1 want to wear a cut away suit. Because 1t looks nice witt bioomers. I will wear russet shoes ane brown stockings. I want to have n5 hair cut short Because it will D. eoler New York Press.