Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-11-15
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO Ba
Girls Desire to Teach. Boss to Handle
 Tools, When Grown Up.

Tools, When Grown Up.
 Children in their early teens have strange ambitions. From ,, 800 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow np9' it is recorded in the annual report of the de- partmen5 of instruction Ill New York that among the girls 38 per cent wanted to be teachers, 24 per cent nilliners. n per cent clerks and stenographers. 3 per cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses and servants, each 2 per cent artists, per cent, then follow missionaries, mu- sieians, factory l.an6s epd those wno hope to Dc wives and mothers. each about three-fonrths of per cent It ii indeed poor showing for the desire fo2 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 per cent of them express any interest ill being wife and motherl
 Among the boys who were questioned the most popular occupations related to the trades Fourteen per cent had this preference. Next in frequency came the desire to be merchants. , per cent; then clerks, per cent; then farmers, 6 pes cent; doctors, about 5 per cent; lawyers, about 5 per cent, engineers, nearly per cent; teachers and soldiers, each } per cent; railroad men and sailors, each 2115 per cent; business. , per cent. The rest named 8 different occupations. II 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 i'll boys about [ years old was there large preference for such eeou- pations as that of policeman, fireman oI railroad man. AS he grows older the average boy modifies his desire for tha periious. until at 4 he wants to be q bank clerk There Is one interesting ex. neption lo this The ambition to be sailor appears at and increases slowly. eliminating at ii.
 Here is tho composition of a boy o' IL. parents American. his father la borer. When l am u man, l will 50 tt sea and be sailor on the stormy ocean. Then 1 can see strange and foreign laadh and places, where no man but the sailor can go. 1 can go among the ice bergs of the antarctic region, and l eau spend 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 I speak ip such glowing terms of the sailor does not say that l think he has ho diseom- forts, for what kind of life deas not have it's full share of the dangers and diseomforts? The millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under F Even the poorest laboret fr6ts, fearing he and his family will staryo "a deatb when lie has no work. And now. hurrah for the sailorF'
 And here is little end of the cen. { sury old maid of 9, of English and American parentage, whose father is q staid minister of the gospel: "I want ta marry man that doesn't smoke, be. cause don { like the smell of smoke. want to teach school where they wiA let mo spank tho children For children kncad disoiplin l want to wear bloom, ers all the time. 1 want to wear cut. away suit. Iseeause It looks nice with boomers. 1 will wear rasset shoes and brown stockings 1 want to have nay hair cut short Besszuse it will bs ccier '-New York Prnza