The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-16
WHAT A CHILD WANTS TO BE
Girls Desire 20 Teach, Boys To Handle
Tools, When Grown Up.

Tools, When Grown Up.
Children in their early teens have
strange ambitions. From 1880 replies
10 the question. "What would you like
10 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 SS per cent wanted
70 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-
sicians, factory hands and those who
hope to be wives and mothers, each
about three-fourths of per cent. 1t 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 wife and mother?
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 A
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 3
per cent; railroad men and Sailors each
az per cent; business, per cent. The
rest named 30 different occupations IL
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 i'm Logs 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 modifies his desire for the
perilous, until at IA he wants to be a
bank clerk. There is one interesting ex'
ception 10 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 la
borer: "When am man, L will go tC
sea and be a sailor on the stormy ocean,
Then l can see strange and foreign lands
and places, where no man but the sailor
can GO - can go among the ice
bergs Of the antarctic region, and car
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 thai
walking into them. Because speak IL
such glowing terms of the sailor doe
not say that l think he has no discom
J forts, for what kind of life does no
/ have its full share of the dangers ant
discomforts? The millionaire frets abou
the fact that some bank will go under
- Even the poorest laborer frets
fearing he and his family will starve T.
death when he has no work. And now
hurrah for the sailor"
And here is little end OF the cen
tury old maid Of 8, of English an
American parentage, whose father is
staid minister of the gospel: 81 want t
marry O man that doesn't smoke, be
: cause l don't like the smell of smoke.
: want to teach school where they WI
4 let me spank the children. For childre
q knead disciplin. want to wear bloom
ers all the time. l want to wear cut
away suit. Because it looks nice wit
5 bloomers. / will wear russell shoes an
brown stockings. l want to have m
5 hair cut short. Because it will b
coler. New York Press.