of the United Nations in London. The members elected her chairman of this

committee for the study of women's affairs. Among the members is Mrs. Hansa Mehta, the delegate of India, who is also president of the union of Indian women at large and a member of the supreme council of the University of Bombay; Miss Jurdak admired her intelligence, and Mrs. Mehta told her that she had recently met the delegation of our ladies in India. Mrs. New, the delegate of China, is one of the learned members and holds the post of official adviser on women's education in her country. Among the members who contributed much to the deliberations, and who debated with Miss Jurdak in one of the sessions on the subject of women's rights in marriage, is Mrs. Hélène Marie Lefaucheux, the delegate of France, an able lady, a member of the French Parliament, and one of France's delegates to the meeting of the United Nations council in London. Among the members is Miss Fryderyka Kalinowska of Poland, attached to the Polish Legation in Washington as a press correspondent. And among the outstanding members — the members of the committee elected her vice-chairman — is Miss Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic, president of the women's union of all the women of the South American states, in Washington, the Pan American Women's Union; she was her government's official delegate to the United Nations meetings in San Francisco and in London. Miss Jurdak said that the finest thing in those meetings was the spirit of harmony and concord among the committee's members: "We argued and we deliberated, and then we came to an understanding, as ladies — how could it be otherwise, when our aim is one, and it is the aim of all the women of the world? Every one of us sincerely wants the betterment of woman's condition, and every one of us believes in her positive, effective capacities for consolidating peace in the world, provided she is loosed from all her fetters and granted her freedom and her rights as a human being."

Among those who regularly attended the meetings of this committee were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt and chairman of the "Human Rights" committee; Mr. Bokche the Yugoslav; and Professor Cassin the Frenchman, both of them members of Mrs. Roosevelt's committee.

As for Mrs. Roosevelt, she took the members of the two committees to her private house, where they spent the greater part of a whole day. This house of hers is not far from the house of her late husband — where he was born and lived, and where he is buried — the house which she presented in the middle of last April to the American government, to remain a historic monument, a place of pilgrimage for all Americans, and a site for strangers to visit. The members of the committee visited this house, carrying three wreaths to lay upon the tomb of President Roosevelt; and Miss Jurdak had the honor of laying one of them, in her capacity as secretary, together with the chairman and the vice-chairman of the committee.

As for the ball, it was astonishing and sumptuous, and the thing that most catches every woman's eye there is the beautiful evening gowns, supremely elegant and costly, worn by the wealthy American ladies. The party was given by the city of New York, under the patronage of its Mayor, at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria, the most luxurious hotel in the world.

I asked Miss Jurdak, after we had talked for an hour and after she had recounted all her experiences to me at length, "And now, what, in your opinion, is the message we must deliver to the women of Lebanon?" She said at once: "Union — strong union among their ranks, so that they may persuade our government, in the first place, of the necessity of putting into effect all these rights we have discussed, winning its sympathy and its support; and so that, in consequence, Lebanon's voice may remain heard in the international women's field." I shook her hand and said, "This is what I have dreamed of, and what many women in Lebanon have dreamed of. The Women's Union in Beirut must rise to its true station and devote itself to unifying women's efforts, leaving aside every other undertaking and every secondary local quarrel; for this is a great opportunity in which it can prove its worth. And the other associations in Lebanon must cooperate and unify their point of view concerning the international role of the Lebanese woman; and they must make their voice heard by woman in the neighboring Arab countries, so that these may strive, first, with their governments to obtain their rights, and second, to take an actual part in world women's efforts."

I also asked Miss Jurdak what had come of the holding of a world women's congress, as was mentioned at the women's congress held in San Francisco last May. She said: "We resolved upon it, but we fixed neither the time nor the place. In my unofficial conversations with the members of our committee — and I have made friends with them all — I mentioned Lebanon to them as a meeting place, and they showed their approval and their eagerness!!"

O women of Lebanon, do not disappoint these hopes. Lebanon expects of you, and so does the world, that you continue the march forward. The Lebanese woman has given proof, throughout her history, and especially in the modern era, of an intelligence, an energy, and a skill in all her national and social undertakings that have stirred the admiration and the wonder of kin and stranger alike. She cannot, then, leave any room for retreat or failure — and she will leave none, she who is heir to the wisdom of the generations, daughter of liberty, nursling of the mountains — adorned with firmness of character, bearer of the torch of light, joining in her person the virtues of the East to the virtues of the West. Her mission is singular and her role momentous: she will persevere and stand fast with the steadfastness of Sannin, and her works will endure with the immortality of the Cedars.