The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-20
WHAT A CHILD 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 bau
strange ambitions. From 2 800 reptile,
to the question, What would you lils
70 do or be when you grow up?" il is TO
corded IN the annual report of the de
partment of instruction in New Yorl
that among the girls 3s per cent. want
ed TO be teachers, "a per cent millin
ers, II per cent clerks and stenog
raphers, per cent. housekeepcrsi
storekeepers, nurses and servants. eact
per cent; artists, per cent; then fob
low missionaries, musicians, factory
hands, and those who hope 70 be wives
and mothers, each about three-fourths
of per cent. 1t is indeed a poor show
ing for the desire for motherhood
What is wrong with our schooling sys.
tenn that most young giris make ar
their minds that they would like 70 be
teachers, and that only three-fourths Of
one per cent. Of them express any in.
terest in being q wife and mother?
Among the boys who were qu~
toned. the most popular occupation,
related TO the trades. Fourteen pet
cent. had this preference. Next In frs
quency came the desire 70 be mer>
chants, IL per cent; then clerks, PEI
cent; then farmers, 6 per cent; doc
tors, about per cent; lawyers. about
s per can't; engineers, nearly 4 pea
cent: teachers and soldiers, each !,
per cent; railroad men and sailors
each ~; per cent? business, pea
cent. The rest named 3s different &C.
equations. II was noticed that the
boys thought that en- occupation
that dealt with tools. plants or animal,
meant something that conferred power
over ones fellows. Only in boys about
seven years old was there a large pref
erencc for such occupations as that Of
policeman, fireman OF railroad man.
As be grows older the average boy mod
flea his desire for the perilous. until az
- he wants 70 b bank clerk There
!s one interesting excepiion 20 this
The ambition 20 Be q sailor appears Al
seven and increases slowly. euIminas-
ing at ~.
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