Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-12-19
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE
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 Children in their early teens have strange ambitions. From 2,50o replies to the question, What would you like to do or be when you grow upg' it is recorded in the annual report of the ,ie- partment of instruction in New York that among the girls 3S 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, 1 l 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. It is indeed a 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 per cent of them express any interest in being a wife and mother2
 Among the boys who were questioned the most popular occupations related to i the trades. Fourteen per cent had this i preference. Next iii frequency came the desire to be merchants 12 per cent; then clerks, 2 per cent; then farmers, per cent; doctors, about per cent; lawyers, about per cent; engineers, nearly 4 per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 3 per cent; railroad men and sailors, each 216 per cent; business. 3 per cent. The rest named 35 different occupations. It was noticed that the boys thought that an occupation that dealt with tools. l plants or animals meant something that l conferred power over one's follows. Only in boys about years old was there large preference for such occu- pations as that of policeman. fireman or railroad man. As he grows older the average boy modities his desire for the perilous, until at Ii he wants to be Q bank clerk, There is one interesting ex- eeptien to this. The ambition to be sailor appears at and increases slowly. eliminating at t4.
 Here is the composition of boy of IA, parents American, his father a h. borer; When am man, l will go to sea and be sailor on the stormy ocean. Then l can see strange and foreign lands and places, where no man but the sailor can go. l can go among the iee- bergs of the antarctic region, and can spend Q nightly winter in some arctic country. The dark continent holds many l 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 disoom forts, for what kind of life does not have it's full share of the dangers and discomforts? The millionaire frets about the fact that some bank will go under Even tho poorest laborer frets, fearing he and his family will staryo to death when he has no work. Aud now, hurrah for the sailori'
 And here is a little end of the oen- tury old maid of 3, of English and American percentage, whose father is q staid minister of the gospel ''I want to marry a man that doesn't smoke, be- cause don't like tho smell of smoke, want to teach school where they will lot mo spank tho children. For children knead disciplin. I want to wear bloom CTS all the time. l want to wear cut away suit. Because it looks nice with bloomers [ will wear rnaset shoes and brown stockings. l want to have my hair cut short Because it will be eoler. New York Press.