Evening journal., 1896-12-31
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Girls Desire TO Teach, Logs to EanJls
Tools. when Grown Up.

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Girls Desire 10 Teach. Toys to Handle
Tools. when Grown Up.
Children in their early teens have
strange ambitions From 1900 replies
to the question, "What would you like
TO do or be when you grow up?' it is
recorded in the annual report of the de-
Iartment Of instruction in New York
that among the girls IS per cent wanted
to be teachers, "a per cent miliners, / /
per cent clerks and stenographers, 3'per
cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses
and servants, each per cent; artists,
per cent; then follow missionaries, mu-
sicians, factory hands and those who
hope to be wives and mothers, each
about three-fourths of per cent Ii is
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 10 be teachers, and that only three
fonrths of per cent Of them express
any interest in being wife and mother?
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, IL per cent; then
clerks, per cent; then farmers, 6 per
cent; doctors, about . per cent; lawyers
about 8 per cent; engineers, nearly
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each
per cent; railroad men aud sailors, each
, - per cent; business, per cent The
rest named 30 different occupations. 1t
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 in boys about 2 years cid was
there a large preference for such occu-
pations as that of policeman, fireman or
railroad man. As he grows older the
average boy modifes his desire for the
perilous, until at IA he wants TO be a
bank clerk. There is one interesting ex.
ccption to this. The ambition to be a
sailor appears at 2 and increases slowly,
eliminating at IA.
Here is tine composition Of boy of
IA, parents American, his father la
borer; When l am man, 1 will go to
sea and be sailor on the stormy ocean.
Then can see strange and foreign lands
and places, where no man but the sailor
can go. = = y | can go among the icei
bergs of tho antarctic region, and / can
spend a nightly winter IN 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 / speak in
such glowing terms Of the sailor does
not say that / think he has no discom-
forts, for what kind Of life 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 laborer frets,
fearing he aud his family viii ftsrvN to
death when he has no work. --Iu AOw,
hurrah tor the sailor''
And here is little end Of tho CEN
tury old maid of 9. of English and
American parentage, whose father is a
staid minister Of the gospel 81 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. For children
knead disciphn. / want to wear bloom
ers all the time. l want to wear a cut
away suit. Because it looks nice with
boomers l will wear russet shoes and
brown stockings l want to have my
hair cut short. Because it will be
coler. New York Press.