Evening journal., 1897-01-11
a CHILD WANTS TO BE
Girls Desire 20 Teach. Boys TO HaoJIe
Tools. When Grown Up.

Girls Desire 20 Teach, Boys TO Handle
Toois. When Grown Up.
Children in their early teens have
strange ambitions. From 2,5O0 replies
10 the question. "What would you like
to do or be when you grow up?'' it is
Secorded 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, IL
per cent clerks and stenographers, 3 per
cent housekeopcrs; storokeepers, nurses
and servants, each per cent; artists,
per cent; then follow missionaries, mu-
sicians, factory hands and those who
hope to be wives and mothers, each
about three-fonrths Of per cent 1t is
indeed 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 1 per cont Of them express
any interest in being a wife and mother?
Among the boys who were questioned
tho most popular occupations related to
the trades. Fourteen per cent had this
desire to be merchants, ~ per cent; then
clerks, z per cent? then farmers, 6 per
cent; doctors, about per cent; lawyers,
about per cent; engineers, nearly 4
per cent; teachers and soldiers, each 3
per cent railroad men and sailors, each
2ls per cent; business, per cent The
rest named 80 different occupation. 1t
was noticed that tho 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 cid 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 fer the
perilous, until at IA he wants to be a
bank clerk. There is one interesting ex-
ception TO this. The ambition to be a
sailor appears at and increases slowly,
eliminating at IA.
Here is the composition Of a boy Of
IA, parents American, his father la
borer: "When am a man, L will 80 to
sea and be a sailor OH the stormy ocean.
Then 1 can see strange and foreign lands
and places, where no man but the sailor
can CO. y can go among the ice
bergs Of the antarctic region, and l can
spend a nightly winter in some arctic
country. The dark continent holds many
Joys for the sailor. He can hunt and
/ have adventures without other cost than
walking into them. Because / speak in
such glowing terms Of the sailor does
not say that l think he has no discom-
forts, for what kind of life does not
have its fall share of the dangers and
discomforts? The millionaire frets about
the fact that some bank will go under
Even the poorest laborer frets,
fearing he and his family will starve TO
death when he has no work. And now,
/ hurrah fer the sailorp
And here is q little end of the CEN
tury old maid Of 8, of English and
American parentase, whose father is q
staid minister Of the gospel; 81 want to
marry man that doesn't smoke, be-
cause 1 don't like the smell of smoke. ]
want to teach school where they will
let me spank the children. For children
knead disciplin. / want to wear bloom
ers all the time ] want to wear a cut
away suit. Because it looks nice with
bloomers. 1 Will wear russet shoes and
brown stockings. 1 want to have my
hair cut short Because it will be
ooler. New York Press.