The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-16
WHAT AcHILD WANTS TO BE
Girls Desire to Teach, Boys to Handle
Tools, When Grown Up.

Girls Desire TO Teach. Boys to Handle
Tools, When Grown Up.
Children In their early teens have
strange ambitions From 1880 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-
partment Of instruction In New York
that among the girls 8S per cent wanted
to be teachers, "a per cent milliners. IL
per cent clerks and stenographers, per
cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses
and servants, each . per cent; artists. l
per cent; then follow missionaries, mu-
sioians, factory hands and those who
hope to be wives and mothers, each
about three-fourths of per cent. 1t 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 to BIO teachers. and that only three
fourths of per cent of them express
any interest in being a 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, 10 per cent; then
clerks. per cent: then farmers, o per
cent; doctors, about 8 per cent; lawyers,
about per cent; engineers, nearly A
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 3
per cent; railroad men and sailors, each
an per cent; business, . per cent. The
rest named 30 different occupations. 1t
was noticed that tho boys thought that
an occupation that dealt with tools,
plants or animals meant something that
conferred power over ones follows.
Only i'll boys about years old was
there large preference for such oocu-
pations as that of policeman, fireman OF
railroad man. AS no grows older the
average boy modifies his desire for the
| perilous, until at IA he wants to be q
bank clerk. There is ono interesting eX'
ception TO this. The ambition to be @
sailor appears at and increases slowly,
eliminating at ID.
Here is the composition of boy Of
IA, parents American, his father "a la
borer: "When am man, will go tt
sea and be sailor on the stormy ocean
Then can sec strange and foreign land
and places, where no man but the sailol
can go. y y can 60 among the ice
bergs of the antarctic region, and can
spend nightly winter In some arctic
country. The dark continent holds many
joys for the sailor He can hunt ant
have adventures without other cost than
walking into them. Because | speak IN
such glowing terms of tho 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,
y Even the poorest laborer frets,
fearing he and his family will starve to
death when he has no work. And now,
hurrah for tho sailorP'
And here is little end Of the CEN
fury old maid of 0. 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 disciplin. want to wear bloom
ers all the time. want to wear cut
away suit. Because 1t looks nice with
boomers / will wear russell shoes and
brown stockings. | want to have my
hair cut short. Because it will be
coler. New York Press.