The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-12-10
+ WHAT a CHILD WANTS TO DE.
Girls Desire to Teach, Boys to Han
die Tools, When Grown Up.

Children in their early teens have
strange ambitions. From $500 replies
to the question, wv hat would you like,
to do or be when you grow up y & it is.
recorded in the annual report of tho.
I department of instruction in New York
that among the girls IS per cent want.
ed to be tea cheers, "a per cent milliners,
Ill per cent clerks and stenographers,
3 per cent housekeepers; storekeepers,
nurses and servants, each 9 per cent J;
artists, I per cent; then follow. mis-
lSsionarias, musicians, factory hands
and those who hope to be wives and
mothers, each about three-fourtls of 1
per cent. 1t is indeed poor showing
! for the desire for motherhood. What
lis wrong with our, schooling system
that most young girls make up their
minds that they would like to be teach
ers, and that only three-fourths of L
per cent of them express any interest
! in being q wife and mother? 4
Among the boys yho We're questioned
1 the most popular occupations related
| to the ira es. Fourteen per cent had
1 this preference. Next III frequency
came the. desire to be merchants, 10
per cent; then clerks, Z per cent; then
farmers, 6 per cent; doctors. about 5
/, per cent; lawyers, about per cent;
engineers, nearly 4 per cent; teachers
and soldiers, each 3 per cent; railroad
men and sailors, each ~ per cent; bus
mess, 2 per cent. The rest named So
different occupations. 1t was noticed
that the boys thought that an Occupa-s
| tiCn that dealt with tools, plants or
animals meant something that confer
red power over ones fellows. Only in
boys about Z years old was there a.
large preference for such occupations
Eas that OF POLICEMAN, fireman or rail
road man. AS lie grows older the aver
age boy modifies his desire for the per.
ilous until at Il he wants to be a bank
clerk. There is one interesting excep-
tion to this. The ambition to be a
sailor appears at z and increases slow
/ ". eliminating at IA.
Hero is the composition Of boy of
Il, parents American, his father a la
bOrer:: When am a man will go to
sea and be a sailor on the stormy
ocean. Then | can see strange and
foreign lands and places, where no
man but the sailors can go. *A T.
can go among the icebergs Of the ant
arctic 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 adj
ventures without other cost than walk
ing into them. Because speak in such
glowing terms of the sailor does not
say that i think he has no discount forts,
for what kind Of life does not have
their full. share Of the dangers and dis
comforts? The millionaire frets about
the fact that some bank will go I'M
der. : Even the poorest laborer
frets, fearing he and his family will
starye to death when he has no work.
And now, hurrah for the sailor!''
And here is a little end-of- the-century
old maid of 8, of English and Ameri-
can parentage. whose father is a staid
minister of the gospel: 81 want to
marry a 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 chill
dren knead disciplin. want to wear
boomers all the time. i want to wear
a cutaWay$ suit. Because it 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.