continueing as no. 116- The foundation of all discipline lies, at home, but an Indian home, rich or poor, is a veritable bedlam. Here, apart from the tyrannny of a single individual, male or female, everybody does as he or she likes. Obedience, if any, is verbal: the root behaviour is based on personal comfort and advantage. Let us enter an Indian home at breakfast-time. No member of the family, if it is well off, wants to eat the same things; one desires boiled eggs and tea, an other, something else, a third, what he or she happens to fancy at the moment, and so the demands are made. The poor cook tries to satisfy six or seven people at the same time. He fails to do this and gets everone a berating.[next will continue as no. 117]
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