"Would you like to be a plumber?"

"I don't know."

Similar questions, with similar answers, continue. Finally:

"Would you like to be a doctor?"

"I don't know--is that a good position?"

Sometimes a boy is accompanied to the office by his father.

"My son is a natural-born electrician," the father boasts.

"What has he done to show that?"

"Why, he's wired the whole house from top to bottom."

It is found by further questions that the lad has installed a push-bell
button at the front door and another at the back door. He had bought dry
batteries, wire and buttons at a hardware store in a box containing full
directions. It is nevertheless hard to convince the father that the boy
may not be a natural-born electrician, after all.

In frequent cases the father has not considered the limitations and
opportunities in the occupation which he chooses for his son.

Mr. Deady has this to say on the subject of the father's relation to the
boy's "job": "The average boy while seeking employment in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred is unaccompanied by either parent. Such a