as fine as anything made in the most advanced and most famous ladies' dressmaking establishments of the city.

From there we passed to the household management department, where the girls are trained to master the various household tasks at the hands of a teacher who spe-cializes in these arts. I admired exceedingly the well-wrought work the students produce in these two departments, in addition to their high scholarly and cultural attainment; for hardly does a girl finish her studies at this institute before she has been trained sufficiently to fit her to become a housewife, a mother, and a wife of high refinement, in the full meaning of the word.

The Islamic Makassed Charitable Society has attended to the religious side, taking care to instruct the students in the principles of the Islamic religion and to teach the Holy Quran; for this purpose it brought a sheikh from al-Azhar University, who draws his salary from the treasury of the Egyptian gov-ernment. The institute's other expenses are borne by the Makassed Charitable Society itself, and more than half of the students are educated at the Society's expense.

I cannot close without a word addressed to those responsible for this institute — namely, the necessity of lifting the restrictions which tend to keep this advanced institute in an isolated atmosphere, since its functions are confined to invited ladies. Would that they worked to remove this barrier which isolates the institute from its surroundings — yet in such a way that it remains, like the other advanced institutes, a sanctuary of learning, truth, and freedom, to which our girls make pilgrimage, to be blessed by its blessing and to draw the sciences from its spring.