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The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
A PRINCIPAL
NELLIE McHUGH.
40 st. Rose Avenue. San Francisco
Richmond school. Ii Fourth Grade.
Age IL Years

am now II years old. and | am
just thinking what ] intend to be when,
get to be about IS years of age At
the age OF Is | expect to be all done
with high school, and also through
the normal school When / get
through high school and normal school
! expect TO have a good education. Ny
intention is to be a school teacher. /
am very fond of school teaching
School teaching was my intention ever
since / knew about a teachers life
am a pupil of the Richmond gram
mar school and in the b fourth grade
and think a teachers life is always
full of pleasure and happiness After
have taught for 10 years and have
good experience / expect to be a
principal | also think that principal
has pleasant time. A principal has
full charge of his or her school house.
When l get the job / expect to be
teacher or principal until | can't
teach any more
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AN AMBITIOUS BOY
HERBERT Won DER MEHDEN.
1878 Hayes street. Creeker Grammar
school, b Fifth, Age
10 Years

- Some time ago a man wanted a boy
and put an "ad" in the paper. The
next morning many boys came. He
only wanted one, so he knew what 70
10. He took nail and hammered it
in the desk and took his cane and
asked all the boys if they could hit it
on the head. They all said yes but
they couldn't. He said to. the boys
that they wouldn't do. The next day
many more boys came One was there
that had been there yesterday. The
man asked him IL he could do it now
He said. II think so. So he took the
cane and hit the. nail plump. hit the
nail on the head. Again plump. on the
head. Again plump on the head. The
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A HORSE sHoER
RoRERT ADAMS.
Msdera. Cal Age 10 Years

MADEIRA. Cal Age 10 Years
I am going TO be horse shoer. be =
cause my father is one, and a good
one.
The horse is a mans best friend. He
does the work Of about 90 men and
all he gets is what he eats and the
shoes he wears.
The reason I want to be q good
horse shoer is 10 try 20 help our poor
dumb friends. You know. We have so
many poor horse si1oers that our good
friend. the horse. is badly treated be-
cause they do not know how TO shoes
him properly.
A good horse si1oer Is a very useful
man. and l am going TO try to be one
when / get big enough.
I can learn some things even now
about the trade by watching my father
when he is working and also by ask
ing him questions.
So the horse shoers trade is my
chosen profession. and I am going to
be 0ns whether it be good or bad
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MY WISH
RAYMOND PAGE,
81 Twenty-nfnth street. san Frapeisce
ID Fourth Grade. Haisht school.
AGE Years

My wish is to be an engineer when
grow up TO be man. like TO ride
on a train better than I do on a boat
An engineer gets lots of fresh air, too.
When l was in the country the peo-
pie that we lived with and my mother
and | would go ON the lumber train
but we didn't ride on the lumber; we
rode on the coal on the engine. We
would go over bridges about a hun
dred feet high. The little cottages
looked very small from where we were.
There was one bridge that the train
ran on. over Mad river. The train
had to so very slow. BECAUSE the bridge
was narrow, but it was strong because
1T was made of steel. III one train was
on the bridge the other one had TO
switch on on q little track made for
that purpose. 1t had TO do that be-
cause there was only one track on the
bridge. The water in Mad river was
very rough. / think that is why they
named it Mad river. When I would
go on the engine I would watch the
engineer until / knew a few things
about it. l think if | went many more
times | would be able to run it. Ever
since was on that engine i have
wished / could be an engineer.
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MASTER CLAIR NtI@I1NG.
San Juan. Cal. San Jusfo school. Ninth
Grade. Age II Years
As 1 often roam in the green fields
and meadows / watch the birds go
tWittering over my head uncons nscious
Of their future. / then think of my
own future. ] have thought of the
occupations and professions the world
offers and there is one to which 1 de-
vote my thoughts more than any
other, and that is the profession Of
doctor. Most boys have made some
plans for their future, and l think
IL is a good thing 10 do. / expect
10 90 to high school and then to some
medical college. There will be the
joys and sorrows, but l hope TO plod
on to the longed for goal 1 once
made a little house and called IT my
Office and dOctOred the chickens and
plants that chanced TO get their legs
broken or were sick. At one time
j had a chicken with a broken leg
under my care. SO I put her in a
pen which was my hospital, and care
fully treated her wound. One day l
went 10 dress her wound but found
she had run away. and when / found
her several DAYS later her wound was
nearly we'll ] would like to be a
good doctor and aid the sick and ex-
hilarate the dying soldiers in case
OF war. All boys. 10 succeed must
be studious and Industrious.
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MY DEAREST WISH
$50 San Jose Avenue. san Francisco.
Horace Mann Grammar school. sixth
Grade. Age II Years
CHARLOTTE WAGNER

| am a school girls12 years old, After
/ haye graduated from the grammar
school / will attend the girls high
and normal school as my whole ambi-
tion is to become a school teacher.
When / was years old my love Tor
teaching began. / had II dolls whom
taught school after my daily studies
were over.
| put four scholars in the first grade.
four in the second and four in the
third and as they were unable to do
their own work. | had to do 1t for
them.
them the papers which contained their
studies. as arithmetic. spelling. ETC. |
would then correct their mistakes and
take down the daily percentage.
My love for teaching has grown With
me, but my ambition is higher now, as
instead of teaching dolls / prefer teach
ing little children.
If my dearest wish may be realized
will teach to my scholars what my
teachers have taught me.
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CATHERINE FORD.
sa25 sacramento street

wish and hope / shall see the
say when ( shall be teaching NTH
grade in some public school OF San
The reason for this is that 7 am
very interested in tiAe work Of the nth
grade. The geography is 1nteresting
because you can noG study hlstory
vvitbonf IL Another reason is that
am fond OF children. and have brains
enough TO control and teach them in a
right ma nner.
expect to get the position by grad
uating from the grammar Sch0ot. from
nigh school from business college and
then graduate from the Ss.hoot IN wnfcn
Won iearn TO be a teacher hope
vou will see my name often At the
board OF educations once, as good
teacher.
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WHAT / INTEND TO Do IA
THE FUTURE
ANITA \. FoRsEIh
ANITA !. FUHStIAs
1eS Hyland fyenue. BernaI Grammar
schoaI. A seventh Grade. Age
lS Years

I am now a little girl OF Is and
intend to be a stenographer when /
grow up When i graduate from th6
nubIic school I am going to business.
college like school very much and
have often thought how badly / will
feel when / have to leave the public
school. because / like all studies 4
intend 70 go to COgSweNs business
college / like TO write but at type
writine I could sit all day. That -,
what / like best. and 1 hope ] will
prove a great success in being ste
n0gra apher.
None OF my other little friends have
thought OF what they are gotnE 20 be
when they are older. My chum IL go
ing TO business college also. She is go
ting 10 xraduate from the public school
this June / wotaad like to be employed
In q big store and do some fne work
alone hope &c viii not take long
for me TO set out OF business college.
I wish all the juniors success in their
com no sftiOn
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MY AIM IN LIFE
GEORGE b. H0RSFULL,
fSsa Sacramento street, San FraneiscO.
Reddinx school, II Fourth Grade.
Age N Years

When I grow up 7 iRtend 10 be an
electrical and mechanical engineer
That Is and has been my ambition
since 1 fouAd that mechanism and the
wonderful power Of electricity inter
ested me more than anything else.
have always tried to de my best
at school and have always had good
reports.
/ want 10 go through grammar and
hiah scheol and take course at Cor
nell university in the above special
line az studies.
j have been told that my efforts and
IDEAS in mechanism are good. learn
quickly and remember what am
experiment and make dlner9Qt
things in electrical machinery and -
planes
Two years ago I received money for
Christmas TO buy a motor with bal
teries. and since then I have collected
machinery and shafting to form a conf
plete machine shop
1 hope by the time I am Il my edu-
cation will he finished and i viii then
be ready for the battle OF life.
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The principal Mrs. Mary j. Parolini.
has had much experience in the out
side schools and is most enthusiastic
in her efforts toward obtaining for
every child in the district to which she
may be assigned what is often its only
birthright. a liberal education.
Many times it is difficult to shield
the child from the selfish influence
that would rob the little ones of this
birthright.
1t is rarely the child that is respon-
sible for its absence. and the compul-
sorry law should have more liberal sup
port and more aid in carrying out its
provisions
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cause they have no one to attend to
them | wish that, ] were a nurse and
could go and help them. BY doing this
my name may become famous and I
would be OF some use to the world
have already tried. When my brothers
hurt or cut themselves in any way
play doctor and, help them the best 1
can and try to make their wounds bet
ter. After | graduate from school
would like to go to high school and col
lege, and perhaps if / graduate from
high school and college l would go to
large hospital and take training
St Mary's hospital After | had be-
come a nurse / would do as | wish now
] could do. hope my plans will sue
ceed.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
WHEN I'M GROWN UP
LAURA M0REH0UsE.
1879 Twelfth Avenue, East Oakland.
Age 13 Years

When I was quite a little girl
was fond of playing school with but
tons. chairs. candles, pins and many
other things, and my friends all
thought that 1 would be a school
teacher.
When / was a little older / became
a nurse and developed taste for cut
ting and banda ging a faithful old rag
doll named Dina. who Is now lying in
a pasteboard box on shelf.
is kindergarten teacher. visited us.
and since then I have cherished the
idea of being a teacher of the tiny
people. I will go to the Fort Worth
training school in Texas and I hope
there will be a Junior Call then (only
having eight pages instead Of four), so
can relate the stories to my dear
little pupils. for 7 enjoy them so much
that l would like other children to have
some similar ones
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
RUNNING A RANCH
HATTIE WILLIAMS,
Wriehts. Cal. BurreH school. Age IA
Years

When | grow up / want to live on
a ranch of my own where L can raise
horses, cows and chickens; also dogs
and cats. Then I can milk the cows
and feed the chickens. dogs and cats.
| want to live on a ranch because
can have plenty of clear, fresh air.
Then / can have clear fresh water
and plenty Of it; also vegetable and
flower garden.
/ can raise fruits of all kinds and
berries also. We can get blackberries,
stra berries buckle berries, thimble-
berries. gooseberries and raspberr1es
growing wild in the woods.
There is no place better than the
country in which to raise fresh fruits,
berries and vegetables.
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
I. WOULD LIKE TO BE AN
AUTHOR
BY CAMILLA MALONE,
San Rafael. Cal. Fifth Grade Grammar
school. AGE 16 Years

I would like to be an author. That
is NV ambition for the future | would
like to write animal stories and fairy
tales, because I like to read them. IL
other children like them as Well as
/ do / am sure they are very fond
of reading books.
[ should like to keep several horses,
some dogs, cat. some chickens and
and dogs and cats myself. / am very
fond of animals. / am not afraid of
hardly any animals. 1t seems as
though they all like me.
/ should also like to be Sunday
school teacher or piano teacher. [
should like to be missionary and do
the work that many people do not
know Of
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
AN ARTIST
RED K0MMER.
$685. Army street. San FraneIseo.
Fifth Grade. Age m Years

Almost from the time I knew how to
hold pencil I had a great desire to
draw When first starting to school I
would enjoy drawing pictures like the
ones printed in my reader IT seemed
very easy for me, and many time the
folks at home thought / traced, as IL
resembled the one in the book so much.
TO convince them 1 would draw 1t over
in their presence so they could plainly
see / did not trace.
As / grow older | seem to improve
and can draw most anything. Not only
simple pictures in my reader. but with
out anything to copy from. enjoy and
spend many an hour by sitting down
and drawing sueh as battleShips.
scenes. flowers and other different
things.
After drawing take my paints
which I won from The Junior Call and
finish by eoloring them.
Drawing seems such a pleaSuTe and
pastime as it is a talent, but net a task
for me. and / hope as I grow older
that / shall improve enough TO be able
to make my livelihood as an artist
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24

come a good lawyer. Several of my
uncles have been lawyers. My mother
says that / am gifted with argument
My grandfather has promised me a
college education, and an extra course
in law.
He used TO say TO me when [ was
a little tot, that the smart boy be-
came a smart lawyer. and drove
pair of fine horses to his office: while
the lazy boy became a lazy lawyer
and had to walk to his Office
Of course, ] expect to profit by this
lesson.
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MY FUTURE
auEENrE LANGA.
zee Fifth Avenue. San Francisco.
Fifth Grade. Age m Years

When / grow up ! should like to be
nurse A trained nurse gets a good
salary and helps the werid along.
without nurses, we would have no.
body TO take care OF the sick and
poor.
Another reason I want TO be a nurse
is because I like to relieve people
Mamma said when I was a little girl
used to make believe that my dolls
would break their arms and less aR1
would bind them up
When 7 was in Washington If any
of the girls hurt themselves they
would look me up to take the splinters
out of their hands or bind their cuts
To be nurse / would begin by learn
ing 10 bind up small cuts and bruises
first After / have graduated from
hi gh school shall go to medical col
lege. then / shall go TO some large
hospital as a student. 1 could then
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
AWARDED A WATCH
A UNIVERSITY TEACHER
1S7 California Avenue, City. First
Year Of the immaculate CORecR-
1iOH High school
CLARA c. BUCKLEY.

The hardest problem that I have
found 70 solve is what I am going TO be.
To learn q trade I have not any de-
sire, because. you are idle too much.
Tor instance, take a milliner: she is
out Of employment five months of the
ear. p nurse or doctor / don't think
] would be able TO stand; a saleswoman
has TO stand too much: Office work is
very fire. that Is a steHOgraplIer. but
the trouble is there are many girl
stenographers and positions are difficult
10 hnd at present: a music teacher or
artist or authOreSS, / don't think /
have enough talent for: prOof reader
or linotype operator I would love to be-
but 1 heard that girls We're not allowed
into the union any more. l am now
going to relate you what I intend to be:
To finish high school is my first aim !:
then TO cur Berkeley university I will
go. and here ] intend TO take up the
course that viii Mt me for a teacher of
The university, so / will be able when
have reached the suitable age to teach
young men and women what IehaVe
been taught
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WHAT l WOULD LIKE TO BE
MINNIE PALMER.
sixth Grade. BetfernvIa. Age n

MY earnest ambition is to become a.
teacher. The subject 1 would be most
interested in teaching would be liter
atufe- Perhaps you wonder why /
would rather teach literature than an
other subject. So now / will try 10
tell YOU why.
There is such a pleasure in assisting
the children to see the pictures in the
stories and poems which they read and
a ls0 to feel what they are reading.
III they get the thought they usually
express IL In their reading
Also. literature contains so much
for me. and / like TO give IL TO thu
ehi1dren as I see it and help them To
see the beautiful and noble things and
Thoughts contained in most stories.
/ would not like to be an author or
poet, but i would like to be q liter
ature teacher, as 1 have said beforeA
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MY AMBITION
MARJORIE LIDEN,
1219 soutb Union street, Stockton. Cak-s
st. Agnes academy, Sixth Grade.
Age IL Years

/ am the eldest girl Of large family.
/ assist mamma In the household work.
At present my greatest ambition is TO
be a fine cook I am never happieF
than when I am allowed to cook some
thing without any help. Last week
mamma let me make q batch of bread
and you may be sure i felt proud
when I turned out half dozen -loaves
of golden brown that looked good
think that good cooking deserves, toy
be classed among the finer arts. for the
health and happiness OF a family de-
pend a good deal on we'll cooked. we'll
served wholesome food. i want to
learn to broiI. roast. boil and fry
meats. so that they will retain their
juices and be digestible and palatable:
To cook vegetables to retain the nour-
ishing qualities and flavor. so that
they will not be soggy and tastelesS
as when cooked By = careless and in
experienced cook One thing I have
found out; 10 be a fine cook IS Ike
many other things. you've got to start
at the beginning and pay attention to
small things: but with my taste and
ambition for cooking / hope to sue
ceed and be some day very fine cook
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MY AMBITION
MAURICE HI. SEID,
553 Linden Ave-, San Francisco. Sew
enth Grade Lincoln Evening
school. Age 16 Years

My ambition is to become a chande-
lier salesman. / have had that ambi-
tion ever since 7 started to work for
leading chandelier house in this city
| began working about five years
ago. At that time / was about IL
years old and getting a salary of S3
a week. / liked the business from the
start. One day. after / had been work
ing for the firm about two years. some
body offered me position with a
chance TO learn a trade The induce
ments appealed to me and / left the
fixture business. I hadn't been work
ing at the new place more than month
when a strong desire for the chande-
lier business seized me, and / went
back to my old employers. 1 sue
ceeded in getting my job back.
know the business pretty we'll now
and already / am selling a little 70
customers. In about two years / ex-
pect TO be full fiedged salesman, when
my ambition viii be realized.
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When ] am alone / often wonder
what J shall do for living when |
grow older. / used TO think that dress
making was fine trade, but / soon
changed my mind, as friend told me
that your eyes give out after a length
Of time.
7 have an idea now that business
education is ahead of anything When
I graduate from grammar school l will
The San Francisco call., 1909-04-24
A LAWYER
WALTER STEVENS.
Hartford Street. SAN FrHneiseo'
Everett Grammar school. Age
a. HraYa

\ wish to become lawyer because L
think that i am fitted for one
/ have consulted with my mother
and she thinks that ! am fitted Tor one
My reason FOR wanting to be law
Yer is because 1 may have cnance 10
shut up a great many saloons, gam
bling places and slot machines.
1 would like to get a high standlnE
so as to work my way up to judge ana
then I will have more power to smut
saloons and such places up
I most hope that from my standing
as Judge that j may becoms president
OF the United States and have my name
in history.
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go to school where / can learn stem
ography and book keeping. | shall
work faithfully in this business school
and secure a good reputation. / then
expect to secure a position as a stem
ographer or book keeper for "a large
corporation.
| will stay with my position and try
to advance myself as much as possible.
If the proprietor thinks | am a good
worker he may take me into the busi-
ness a partner. / will then be very
happy and contented if everything
wish for will come true.
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AWARDED A WATCH
MY CAREER
FRANCES McCONLOGUE,
y. o. Box II, Benicia. Benfcia Public
school, Fifth Grade. Age II Years

When / was a very little girl I
wanted 70 be a milliner. nv dolls had
many hats fearfully and wonderfully
made, with all shades OF cOlors on
them They were almost as larvelous
IN architecture as those in the pres
cnf style.
When ! was 10 friend OF mine gave
me box Of paints. and I began using
all my spare time in painting paper
ladies. Soon I could paint so well
my father gave me copying book
Ever since that time my ambition is
10 be an artist. am very anxious
10 take drawing lessons, but 1 want
10 finish my musical education first.
Ny papa says he is going to give
me burning set for my birthday.
Then I may learn TO burn. My birth,
day is the twenty-third Of June. / am
going to have a birthday party. ! hope
to succeed in my drawing.
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man said. Good. How did you do ltE
SO the boy said: When I went nome
yesterday I asked my brother iof :
practiced all day till I could get Il.
This morning l did it again Tor one
hour The gentleman said: GU sIs i5
the boy for me- Whatever he did
after that he tried. and soon became
the chief clerk in the store
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WHAT | WOULD LIKE TO BE
WHEN I'm GROWN UP
IRENE KURZ.
IRENE kURZ,
BeBicia. Cal, Benicia Arsenal Public
school. Sixth Grade. Age 10

When I grow up I would like to be
benefactor. Thai is, something whicn
lots of money which 1 could share
with others. / would like to go around
and visit the poor, make them happy
and give them fresh start in life. Of
course, / could not do these things
without money, but l would have to
work myself to earn il. What | am
going to do to earn it / do not know.
will have TO make up my mind as
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shall put them in pens of not more
than so chickens in each pen. They
shall have plenty of grit and alfalfa
and l always shall keep them well
supplied with bran and green bone.
Papa owes me IS or SO. and l viii
ask him if he will give me chickens
for the money and in that way l viii
get a start
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WHAT | WOULD LIKE TO DO
HAYNARD HoTERMUND
Box 224. X. F.. II. No. 4. santa Cruz. Cal.
Branciforte SCHOOL. Age IL Years

/ am only a boy of j years. / don't
quite. know what l will be when am
man, but l think | would like to
be a pouftryr1an when ! grow up. : =
Ny father says he thinks 1T would
be d profitable, healthy, outdoor busi-
ness and one that requires intelli-
gence.
4 great many peopfe are engaged in
this wogk,
When am q poultryinan I am going
to have white Ieghoras and white
wyaHdottes. and also nlirorcas.l want
shall hatch my chickens by incuba tor
and raise them With fireless brooders: ::
them when they are large enough 4
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wHATsI WOULD LIKE TO BE
BLANCHE WEIGH.
1918 Point LObos Avenue. 4 Fifth
Grade. Richmond school
: ne

WheH i grow up Z wpu4d like to be a
trained nurse 1t is not4flle salary one
that ma ieSn met want to be, a
nurse, but for. the good act Of helping
the sick and the poor. When hear of
the poor, sick people who are dying be.
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MY HOPE
ANNA HOLM.
33 Seventh Avenue. San Fraaefsee.
Feurth Grade. Peabody Primary
school. Age 13 Years

When I was little babv l used to
have little basket where l used to
lie all day long and watch the green
leaves jump up and down / used to
go to sleep in it. My mother told me
that l was the dearest little baby she
ever saw. Now 1 am a big girl. nearly
IA years of age I have a good hand
for drawing. L hope / will be we'll
be able to draw the same ffowsrs
which | saw dancing when I was a
tiny baby in Syria Vaara Kaavi Fin
land.
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AWARDED A WATCH
A LAWYER

IHAF FUNU tHAItIIUN-
904 Bexisadero 81. san Franefseo. CaL
Lew Eighth Grade. Fremont
Grammar school. Age IA 1eaFs