MY FAMILY.

The article focuses on the family of the author. The author's family consists of seven persons: Father, Mother, two boys and three girls. Father is head of the house, and all respects his opinions. Mother is a housewife, and her functions are feeding, caring for, clothing, and worrying about the family. She is physically weak, and all the members of the family protect her, and try to ease her burden. Father and Mother together discipline the family and the older children have a hand in the discipline of the youngsters. The author's parents are Japan-born, and had only a Japanese elementary school education. Father and Mother consult each other a great deal. Evening mealtime is the only time during the day when the whole family sits at the table together. During the day, Father and the girls eat at home in shifts; the youngsters are in school and Big Brother at work. Religion plays an important part in their lives. In those days when the author's family attended language school at Fort Gakuen and at Hong-wanji, regular attendance at the Buddhist Sunday School there came naturally to them.