The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-14
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE
Girls Desire TO Teach, Boys to Handle
Tools. When Grown Up.


Tools, When Grown Up.
Children in their early teens have
strange ambitions. From $500 replies
TO the question, "What would you like
to do or be when you grow up?' il is
recorded in the annual report of the de-
partment of instruction = in New York
that among the girls 3S per cent wanted
to be teachers, "a per cent milliners, III
per cent clerks and stenographers, per
cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses
and servants, each 2 per cent; artists, j
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. 1t il
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 wife and motherf
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, per
cent; doctors, about per cent; lawyers,
about per cent; engineers, nearly
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 8
per cent railroad men and sailors, each
90 per cent; business, 2 per cent. The
rest named 80 different occupations. lt
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 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 modifes his desire for the
perilous, until at ii he wants to be
bank clerk. There is one interesting ex'
ception TO this. The ambition TO be q
sailor appears at and increases slowly,
eliminating at Ia.
Here is the composition of boy OF
IA, parents American, his father a la
borer "When | am man, will 60 &c
sea and be a sailor OH 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 ice
bergs of the antarctic region, and car
spend a nightly winter in some arctic
country. The dark continent holds many
joys for the sailor. He can hunt ant
have adventures without other cost thai
; walking into them. Because speak II
such glowing terms Of the sailor doe
] not say that l think he has no discom
{ forts, for what kind of life does no
3 | have,its full share of the dangers an
: discomforts? The millionaire frets abou
: the fact that some bank will go under
- Even the poorest laborer frets
e fearing he and his family will starvo
1 death when he has no work. And now
0 hurrah for the sailorl'
4 And here is a little end OF the Gel
f tury old maid of 8. of English an
l American parentage, whose father IS
s staid minister of the gospel: Il want
II marry man that doesn't smoke, b
d cause don't like the smell of smoke.
10 want to teach school where they WI
If let me spank the children. For childr'
le knead disciplin. / want to wear bloor
ers all the time. l want to wear Gu
Is away suit. Because it looks nice WI
t. boomers. will wear russell shoes al
brown stockings. l want to have
hair cut short. Because it Will
coler. New York Press.