Certain collections stand out much more prominently than others, especially cigar tags, stamps, birds' eggs, marbles, and shells. These are prominent among both boys and girls, though all but shells much more so among the boys. Certain collections rank high, but more particularly among the girls, as picture cards, pictures, buttons, pieces of cloth, silk, etc., dolls, paper dolls. Then follow some, as books, rocks, leaves, flowers, ribbons, and others, which have a fair following. The remaining classes of collections were made by only a few children, and ninety-seven kinds were made by only one child each. Table V gives a list of the more prominent collections, with the percentage of boys and girls who were making or who had made them. It will be seen that the boys concentrate more on a few things which run as crazes through very many groups. About three fifths of the boys had collected cigar tags and stamps, and nearly half of them had collected birds' eggs. Nothing attains such widespread interest among the girls, although between thirty and forty per cent. of them had collected stamps, shells, and picture cards, but a greater number of things have considerable runs with them. The table shows ✓that only seven things were collected by ten or more per cent. of the boys, cigar tags, stamps, eggs, marbles, shells, buttons, and rocks; while sixteen things were collected by ten |