Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-02-24
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Girls Desire to Teach. Boys 70 Handle
Tools, When Grown Up.


Girls Daaire 10 Teach. Isoga to Handle
Tools. Whom Grown Up.
Children ia their early icons have
strange ambitions From 2, 800 replies
TO the question, What would you like
to ID 81 bc v-hcn yea grow mp it is
recorded in the annual report Of the de-
Dartment Of instruction ia New York
that among tho girls 88 per cent wanted
to be teachers, "a per cont milliners, II
per cent clerks and stenographers, 3 per
cent housekeepers; storekeepers, nurses
and servants, each per cents artists,
per cent; tben follow missionaries, mu-
meians, factory hands and those who
hope to be wives and mothers, each
about thre0-fourths Of j per cent 1t Is
indeed poor showing for the desire for
motherhood What is wrong with our
schooling system chat most young girls
make up their minds that they would
like to be teachers. and that only three
fourths Of per cont Of them express
any interest in being wife and mothorf
Among tho boys who were questioned
the most popular occupations related to
the trades. Fourteen per cent had this
preference. Next III frequency came the
desire to be merchants, ~ per cent; then
clerks, z per cent; then farmers, per
cont; doctors, about per cent; lawyers,
about per cent; engineers, nearly q
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 8
per cent railroad men and sailors, each
~ per cent business, . per cent. The
rest named 85 different occupations. Il
was noticed that the boys thought that
On occupation that dealt with tools,
plants on animals meant something that
conferred power over oHe's follows.
Only in boys about years old was
there large preference for suoh occu-
pations as that Of policeman, fireman Oh
railroad mum as he grows Older the
average boy medifies his desire for the
pcrilous, until at IA he wants to be 9
bank clerk There is one interesting ox
oeption 10 this The ambition to be q
sailor appears at and increases slowly,
eliminating at ID.
Horo is tho composition OF o boy Of
1t. parents American, his father a Ia
borer When am a man, will 60 tC
sea and be a sailor on the stormy ocean.
Then I can see strange and foreign land.
and places, whore no man but the sailor
can go = can so among the ice
bergs Of tbs antarctic region, and / car
spend a nightly winter in some arctic
country. The dark eontinen6 holds many
Joys fer the sailor He can hunt am
have adventures without ether cost than
walking into them. Because 1 speak il
such glowing forms of the sailor dos
not say that ] think he has no diseom
forts, for what kind of life does moi
have its full share of the dangers ant
disc0mforts? The millionaire frets about
the fact that some bank will go under
Even the poorest laborer frots
fearing he and his family viii starvo tx
death when he has no work. Aud now
hurrah for the saiIorli
Aud here Is a little end of the cen
tury old maid Of 9. Of English an(
American parentago, whose father is
staid minister of tho gospel: Il want t,
marry man that doesn't smoke, be
cause / don like the smell of smoke
want to teach school where they vii
LET mo spank tho children. For children
kncad disciplin 7 want to wear bloom
ers all the time I want to wear a cut
away suit. Because it looks nice witt
boomers I will wear russell shoes anC
brown stockings [ want to have M
hair cut short. because it will bi
eoler. New York Press