Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-28
WHAT A cHlL Q WANTS TO ea
Girls Desire to Teach, i;o.s to Handle
 Tools, When Grown Up.

t-fE Desire
 Tools, When Grown Up.
 children in their early teens have ,t,.sroe ambitions. From ,, 300 replies ~ sfe question, What would you like n ao or be when you grow up?'3 it is rscorded in tha annual report of the de- ..,fnent of instruction in New York f5at among the girls a8 per cent wanted fo be teachers, 24 per cent milliners, II ~ssar cent clerks and stenographers, 3 per eant housekeepers, storekeepers, nurses aud servants, each per cent; artists, ,a, cont then fellow missionaries, 1nu- siciaos factory hands and those wno .ona fo be wives and mothers, each abapt lhree fourths of l per cent. Il is indeed poor showing for the desire for ,aofbe,bood. What is wrong with ou1 sehoo6na system that most young girla ,aake ID their minds that they would ,iEa to Ina teachers, and that only three. tonrths of per cent of them express any interest in being wife and inotherf
 Among the boys who were questioned ina most popular occupations related tG inc trades. Fourteen per cent had thls ,,afernpee. Next i'll frequency came the desire 10 be merchants. 2 per cent; then elefts. per cent: then farmers, per rent. doctors, about per cent lawyers, aboat per cent; engineers, nearly < ner cent; teachers and Roldiers, each 3 nar eent railroad men and sailors, each aIs pef cent; business, : per cent. Tie rest named 35 different occupations. It . Bas noticed that the boys thought that sa occupation that dealt with tools, ma0ts or animals meant something that ronferred power over one's fellows
 Only in boys about years old was there large preference for such oocu- nations AS that of policeman, fireman oT r3ifoail mau AS he grows older tho average boy modifies his desire for tine mriious, until at he wants 10 be a l. bank clerk There is one interesting ex- cepfion 10 this The ambition to he a sailor appears II and increases slowly
 eliminating at I
 Here is the composition of boy oi IL parents American. his father la torer Hhg,1 am q man, l Sill go tt 4 eea siia L. t -.zs#a4=tf. the stormy ocean. 4hea I can see strange and foreign lands ma places. where no man but che sailaG can 20. t@s can go among The ice A bergs f the antarctic region. and 1 eau sHeud nightly winter Ill some arctic z eouHify The dark continent holds many j6, iaJ the sailor. He can hunt ano # haze adventures without other cost thaa " dklng into them Because 1 speak in q 5ueh glewmg terms ef the sailor does nat say that l think he has no diseum- forts. fuI what kind of life dues not haze is full share of the dangers and
 diSemfolts. The millionaire frets about E tfe Incl that some bank will go under
 Even the poorest laborer frets.
 fearing he and his family will starye to death when fle has no work. And now.
 larrah Tor the sailorF'
 Aea hero is | fittle end of the cen Eur old maid Of T, of English and
 American pafentage, whose father Is siald minister of the gospel: "l want ta # parry man that doesn [ smoke, be. IHHs siSe don ike the smell of smoke !
 at to teach school where they will
 ne spank the children For children tnaad dIscipiin. l waut to wear bloom. all the tjme 1 want to wear a cut. AsYay suif. igecause It looks nice with a0mets 1 will wear russet shoes and lawn stockings l want to have my s4F cut short. Because 1t will ps < Her a-New York Proea.
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