Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-03
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Girls Desire to Teach. Boss 10 Handle
 Tools, When Grown Up.


 Tools, When Grown Up.
 Children ill their carly teens have strange ambitions. From ,, 800 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow up?'' it is F recorded in the annual report of the dc. plartment of instruction i'll New York thht among the girls 38 per cent wanted to $be teachers, 24 per cent milliners, II per Aeent clerks and stenegraphers. 3 per cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses and servants. each , per cent; artists, per eel Ant; then follow missionaries, mu- siciansk, factory hands and those who hope &o be wives and mothers, each about 1}bree.fourths of per cent. It is indS~Sed n poor showing for the desire foE i 1'motherhood What is wrong with our l schooling system that most young girls ] make up their minds that they would l like to be teachers, and that only three. fourths of 1 per cent of them express l any interest in being wife and motheri
 Among the boys who were questioned 1 the most popular occupations related to the trades. Fourteen per cent had this l preference. Next ill frequency came the desire to be merchants, Ia per cent; then clerks, per cent; then farmers, 6 per 1 cent; doctors, about per cent; lawyers,
 about } per cent; engineers, nearly 1 l per eeHt teachers and soldiers, each l per cent; railroad men and sailors, each l 21z per cent; business, per cent. The rest named g. different occupations. It was noticed that the boys thought that l lc
 plants or animals meant something that conferred power over one's fellows. i Only in boys about years old was
 there a large preference for such ocou- l pations as that of policeman, fireman or railroad man As he grows older the i average boy modifies his desire for the l pcriious, until at l4 he wants to be a 1 bank clerk There is one interesting ex- ception 10 this. The ambition to be 8 sailor appears at and increases slowly. eliminating at i4
 l Hero is the composition of boy oi 1 IA, parents American. his father a Ia
 borer When am man, l will go to I sea aud be sailor on the stormy ocean. Then can see strange and foreign lands and places, where no man but the sailor i can go. * 1 can go among the ice. bergs of the antarctic region, and 1 eau
 spend nighay winter in some arctic
 country Thddark continent holds many l joys for the sailor He can hunt and
 have adventures without other cost than walking into them. Because speak iD sueh glowing terms of tho sailor does
 not say that 1 think he has no discom- forts, for what kind of life does not
 have its full share of the dangers and
 discomforts2 Tine millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under.
 Y x Even tho poorest laborer frets. fearing he and his family will stGrve to deatb when he has no work. And now,
 hurrah for the sailorl''
 And here Is little end of the cen. tury old maid of 3. of English and American parentase, whose father Is staid minister of the gospel: T want ta marry man that doesn't smoke, be. uause I don t like the smell of smoke. want to teach school where they will let mo spank the children. For children Encad disciplin. want to wear bloom. CTS all the time. 1 want to wear cut. away suit. Because 1t looks nice with bloomers. will wear russet shoes and 1 brown stockings. 1 want to have my hair cut short Beazuse 1t will be coler. New York Presa.