Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-21
WHAT A CHILD MAMra ID ee
Gir1s Desire to Taaeh, iio.s 10 Handle
 Tools, When Grown Cp.

Girls Desire to TAatht En.k 10 Handle
 Toois When Grown Up.
 Children in their early teens haye strange ambitions. From ,500 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when yon grow up?'' it is recorded in tho annual report Of the dc. partment of instruction in New Yorh shat among the girls 98 per cent wanted to be teachers, g4 per cent miIiiners. II per cent clerks and stoAographars 2 per cent honsekeepers; atorekeepers. nurses and servants, each 2 per cent; artists, 1 per cont, then follow missionaries, luu. Eieians, factory hands and those wnc hope 10 Do wives and mothers, each about three-fourths of per cent. Ii t7 Indeed | poor showing for the desire fol motherhood What ia wrong with oa1 schooling system that mo8t young girls make up their minds that they would ike to be teachers. and that only three tourths of per cent of them oxpIesg any interest in being q wife and motEerl
 Among he boys who were queetioued the most popular occupations related to the trades. Fourteen per cent had tina preference Next in frequency came th7 desire to be merchants. t2 per cent; then elerls, per cent then farmers, 6 peI cent; doctors, about 5 per cent; law yers, about , per cent; engineers, nearly 1 per cent; teachers and soldiers each } per cent. railroad men and sailors, each 211a per cent: business, : per cent pAe rest named 35 different occupations Tt was Ietioed that the boys thought that m occupation that dealt with tools, plants or animals mda1tt something that conferred power over oue's fellows. only in toys about [ years old was there 4 largo preference for such occu- pations as that of policeman, fireman or railroad nun AS ho grows older the average hoy modiaas bis desire fer the periioes. until 1t II he wants to be 8 bank clerk There is one interesting ex. eeption to this The ambition to be Q sailor appears ut and increases slowly, eliminating ab tt
 Here iS the compoSItioa q s hoy oY IL, parents American. his father lE boee9 When an a man, ] @Iil 70 te sea and te sailor oa the stormy oeaaa Then can zee strange aud foreign iia9s and places, where n0 man bat tha a-ilot can 30 @ can go among tho ice bergs sf the antarctic region and ] ean spend Il nightly winter in some arctic country The dark continent holds many j0yS for t6e sailor. EIe can hunt ana have adventures without other cost tha9 walking inte them. Because [ speak F such gtoWfae terms U tho sailor aoes not say that ] think he bas ao dis1am- forts, for what kind If hfe daee net have it's fall share of 1ae daneeIs aud diseomfeTts2 The millionaire fpets a4qat the fact chat some bank will go daeiar. Even tbe poorest lahore1 trets, fearing he nna his family Will stu4e sa 6ieath when be has Ha work. And now hurrah fsf tha sailorl
 And here ls littte end ol the cen tury old maid of 3, ef English and American pa5eatage, Whose father is I stand minister of tho gospel T want tc marry man that deosn't smoke. be. Cause | con lik1 tho smel ol smoke. want to teach school where they will let ITO spank theehiidytn For children l,npad aiseip!iu. I want to wear bloom CTS all the time 4e9nt to wear- B cut. away suit Because t leekS nice with boomers I will wear lasset rhoes and brown stockings. I want to have }ay hair cut sbort. EecaUse t will ps coler. "~-Stw York irCss.