Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-09-09
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE
Girls Dssire to Iea,h. Boys 10 Handle
 Tools, When Grown Up.


 Tools. When Gss9fs Up.
 Children in their early teens have strange ambitious Fr0in ,. 800 replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow np?' it is recorded in the annual report of the de. partnlent of instruction in New York that among the girls S8 per cent wanted to be teachers, 24 per cent milliners, II per cent clerks and stenographers, per cent housekeepers; storekeepers nurses and servants, each per cent, artists, per cent; then follow missionaries, mu- sicians, factory hands and those wna hope to he wives and mothers, each about three -fonrths of per cent. It iI indeed poor showing for the desire for 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 1 per cent of them express any interest in being wife and motheri
 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. 12 per cent; then clerks, per eent then farmers, per cent; doctors, about per cent lawyers, about per cent: engineers, nearly 4 per cent; teachers and soldiers, each } per cent railroad men and sailors, each 21a 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 i'll boys about years old WAS there large preference for such occu- pations as that of policeman, fireman or railroad man. As be grows older the average boy modifies his desire for the perilous, until at IA he wants to be Il bank clerk. There is one interesting ex- oeption 10 this The ambition to be 2 sailor appears at z and increases slowly. eliminating at IA.
 Here is the composition of 8 boy of 14. parents American, his father la borer: When l am man, l will so to sea and be 2 sailor on the stormy ocean. Then l can zee strange and foreign lands and places, where no man but the sailor eau go. < I can go among the ice bergs of the antarctic region, and can spend nightly winter i'll some arctic country. The dark continent holds many joys for the sailor He can hunt and have advent ures without other cost than walking into them. Because speak in such glowing terms 0f the sailor does not say that 1 think he has no discom- forts, for what kind of lfe does not have its full share of the dangers and discomforts? The millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under Even the poorest iaborel frets, fearing he and his family will staryo to death when he has no work. And now, hurrah for the sailor!'
 And here is a little end of the cen tury old maid of 5, of English and American percentage, whose father is a staid minister of the gospel; "I want to marry man that doesn't smoke, be. cause don t like the smell of smoke want to teach school where they will let me spank the children. EC3 children knead disciplin. want 10 wear bloom. CTS all the time. 1 want to wear cut. away suit Because 1t looks nice with bloomers. will wear russet shoes and brown stockings. 1 want to have my hair cut short Because it will b. coler New York Press.