Designers of women's clothing "models" have turned to making use of paste materials, fashioning from them beautiful buttons, "clasps," and buckles, colored in bright hues, for the adornment of simple dresses; paste materials have likewise taken the place of needlework for the trimming of clothes, and their chief colors are gold and silver.
The articles made of paste materials that go with the trimming of clothes resemble other articles made of leather, transparent glass, wood, "plastra," or oxidized metals.
Buttons made of paste materials are often large in size, and yet they are light in weight: the lightest fabrics can be adorned with them without any fear for them from the weight of the buttons. Their shapes are many: some take the form of seashells, or of shields ornamented with a symbol or an emblem, and there are fans, flowers, coins, locks, and tree leaves — all of these suiting coats and simple dresses. The dress opening that takes the shape of a 7 is trimmed with studs of gold or silver.
Discs are made from paste materials in the shape of flowers in beautiful bright colors; they suit the coiffure with the hair swept up, at evening parties.
Likewise flowers and stars are traced in paste materials on evening clothes, and on afternoon dresses made of velvet or crepe.
The "sufra," the shoulders, and the train of afternoon gowns are also adorned with these gleaming articles made of paste materials, in the form of a line of flowers or of stars; the edges of the sleeve or the
collar are trimmed with them as well. The sleeves of afternoon dresses are adorned with a spray of silver-colored flowers, and the belts of dresses made of dark crepe are adorned with a cluster of daisies set one beside the other.
In general, the fashion designers of Grosvenor Street are using paste materials for the adornment of clothes.
His Excellency the Prime Minister has received a letter from His Highness the Emir Sayf al-Islam thanking Lebanon for the warm welcome given His Highness during his recent visit, and expressing the desire of His Majesty his father that Lebanon supply a number of teachers, engineers, physicians, and pharmacists — and that it send first, and as a matter of urgency, a teacher specializing in education, a road engineer, two engineers for irrigation and agriculture, a physician, and a pharmacist.
But the enjoyment of fatherhood and motherhood is a necessity.
If you stand firm, then in this noble gathering there are faithful, sincere hearts standing up for your support, because they see in you what you feel within yourself — powers that must be trained and nourished with what is their rightful portion in life!
And in this noble gathering there are living consciences crying out to justice for all time, to bring you into the harbor of right!
Behold: the nations of Europe, of America, and of the two Easts have halted the fighting, glutted with aggression, weary of the shedding of blood, and have begun to draw up plans of building and repair. And behold the armies of orphans passing before my eyes, mustering themselves to confront hunger, poverty, and moral anxiety, taking up the post of the fighting armies now fading away. Were your society, which stands today for your support, to study them, it would not find, among the plans drawn to erase the evils of the war, a single design for an orphanage — because governments and peoples dream for their orphans what every father dreams for his child, and what every mother wishes for her son.
And when the onlooker turns into a father! and the strange woman looks upon you with a mother's gaze! Do you know what affection will surround you, and in what bliss you will live?
I am with you, O orphan! And we are both believing and weak! For society swallowed up woman's right the very day it swallowed up yours — and behold, today it gives to her. It must surely turn its affection toward you, and give to you. We are both the creation of the just God! who changes things how He loves and when He wills! And we are both soldiers of this nation: we must build for it when it gives, and exchange with it pardon and forgiveness when it wrongs us and strays! For if it gives, its giving is a right owed to us; and if we build, the building is a duty upon us!