====+=====+====+=====+===========+==========+==========+============== | | | | | FATHER | MOTHER | | | | | | LIVING | LIVING | | | | | +-----+----+-----+----+-------------- BOYS|GIRLS|AGE |GRADE|NATIONALITY| YES | NO | YES | NO | SELLING ----+-----+----+-----+-----------+-----+----+-----+----+-------------- 1 | | 9 | 2d | Italian | 1 | | 1 | | baskets 1 | | 10 | 4th | American | 1 | | 1 | | fruit 1 | | 10 | 3d | German | | 1 | 1 | | vegetables 1 | | 10 | 2d | Italian | | 1 | 1 | | fruit | 1 | 10 | 4th | Italian | 1 | | 1 | | fruit | 1 | 10 | 3d | Italian | | 1 | 1 | | baskets 1 | | 11 | 4th | Italian | | 1 | 1 | | fruit 1 | | 11 | 3d | Italian | 1 | | 1 | | baskets | 1 | 11 | 6th | German | 1 | | | 1 | vegetables 1 | | 12 | 4th | American | 1 | | 1 | | vegetables 1 | | 12 | 3d | American | 1 | | | 1 | baskets 1 | | 12 | 4th | American | 1 | | 1 | | sassafras 1 | | 12 | 6th | Italian | 1 | | 1 | | fruit 1 | | 13 | 5th | Italian | 1 | | 1 | | baskets 1 | | 14 | 3d | American | 1 | | 1 | | sassafras 1 | | 14 | 8th | American | 1 | | 1 | | vegetables | 1 | 14 | 4th | Italian | | 1 | 1 | | fruit ====+=====+====+=====+===========+=====+====+=====+====+============== Of these seventeen children nine were Italians, six were Americans, two were Germans. Five of the children, all of whom except one were Italian, were engaged in selling baskets to the passers-by in markets. Six of the children, all of whom except one were Italian, were selling fruit. Six of the children were selling vegetables and herbs, all of them being Americans and Germans. The occupational characteristics of these different peoples are shown by their children, the Italians predominating in the sale of fruit, the Germans in the sale of the products of their market gardens, the Americans, all of whom were boys, in the sale of the herbs they had gathered or the vegetables cultivated on their home farms.