Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-11-17
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO sa
Girls Desire to Teach. iso.s 10 Handle
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Girls Desire to Teach. io,s 10 Handle
 Tools, When Gs0wn Cp.
 Children in their early teens have strange ambitions. From }, 560 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow up?" it is recorded ill tho annual report of the do. partment of instruction in New York that among the girls 38 per cent wanted ta be teachers, 24 per cent miliners, 1 1 per cent clerks and stenographers, 3 per eeut housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses and servants, each per cent artists, per cent; then follow missionaries, mu- sicians factory hands and those wno hope to Do wives and mothers, each about three-fourths of per cent 1t is Indeed poor showing for the desire for motherhood What is wrong with ouE schooling system that most young girls make up their minds that they would like to be teachers. and that only three. fourths of per cent of them express any interest in heinz wife and motheri
 Among the boys who wore questioned she most popular occupations related so the trades. Fourteen per cent had this preference. Next ill frequency came the desire to be merchants. l9 per cent then clerks. per cent; then farmers, 6 per cent; doctors, about per cent; lawyers, about , per cent engineers, nearly { per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 3 per cent; railroad men and sailors each 213 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 that conferred power over ones fellows. Only ill boys about years old wak there q largo preference for such oceu' pations as that of policeman, fireman or railroad man. As he grows older the average boy modifos his desire for the perilous. until at IA he wants to be Q bank clerk There is one interesting ex ception to this The ambition to be sailor appears at and increases slowly. eliminating at IA.
 Here is the composition uf boy oj IA, parents American. his father a Ia borer Whom 1 am man, l will so te sea and be q sailor on the stormy ocean. Then can see strange and foreign landh and places, where no man but the sailor can go. x 1 can go among the iee bergs of the antarctic region, and l eau spend nightly winter in some arctic country The dark continent holds many joys for the sailor. EIo can hunt ane nave adventures without other cost than walking into them. Because speak ir such glowing terms of tho sailor does not say that think he has no discom forts, for what kind of life does not have it's full share of the dangers and discomforts? Tine millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under Even tho poorest laborel frsts. fearing he and his family will staryo ts deatb when he has no work. And now hurrah for the sailorp'
 And here is q little end of the cen tury old maid Of 3, of English and American parentage, whose father is staid minister of the gospel: Il want to marry d man that doesn't smoke, be- ranse don't like the smell of smoke want to teach school where they will let me spank the children. For children gncad disciplin l want 10 wear bloom ers all the time. 1 want to wear cut. away suit Because It looks nice with bloomers 1 will wear russet shoes and brown stockings 1 want to have my hair cut sbort Be, 1use 1t will bs eeler "-Hew York Presa