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Show TOMMY'S AMBITION IN LIFE Not a very High One, but Extremely Complimentary to His School Teacher. Many of the teachers attending a recent teachers' convention at Portland, Port-land, Me., had good stiSries to tell One young and rather pretty teacher from Lincoln county told the following: follow-ing: "It has been my custom to encourage encour-age discussion of subjects outside the lesson papers, and along this line 1 one day spoke of ambition. After I had set before the class the desirability desir-ability of having high aims I asked my pupils what each planned to be One wanted, to be a doctor, another president, another an aviator, another an electric car motorman, another an engineer on a railroad, and so on around the class, until I reached Tommy. "Tommy is a bright, handsome youngster of seven years, and I was expecting him to want to be someone of great importance in the world. 1 was puzzled to find him plainly much embarrassed. He didn't want to tell me his ambition, but finally asked if he might whisper it to me. Much interested, in-terested, I gave him permission, and he trudged up to rny desk. Even there he hesitited. "'Come, come, Tommy!' I said, somewhat impatiently. 'Tell me what it is you want to be in life.' "He. raised himself on tiptoes and slipped one arm about my neck as he whispered, 'Your your husband!'" The Sunday Magazine. |