Let us place in our household program this necessary item for our new Arab home, for the preservation of our existence, and for keeping up the family bond between us and our men and our children.

Let us review the games current in homes and in the places of amusement, and select the most suitable and least harmful among them, so that we may train ourselves in them gradually and practice them in our leisure hours, our evening gatherings, and our family assemblies — both the intimate ones and those filled with a number of acquaintances and

friends whose company cheers us and who are loyal to us...

The Pastime of Reading

The first pastime I recommend to my sisters, the housewives, is the acquisition of a library. By means of this noble pastime we pass from the tedious state that so often takes hold of us into a world other than the one we live in; our spirits revive at this sudden change, at the sight of the intel-lectual treasures set before us, and the curious information about people's homes, their customs,

their manners, their inventions, and all those other matters that broaden our understanding and raise the level of our thinking. We then return to our work better fitted to face whatever adversities may arise — social, sanitary, or domestic.

Nothing is more conducive to hap-piness than a husband and wife joining in the reading of a single book once the day's duties are done and the little ones are asleep: they sit over its contents, and over the delightful meanings it has suggested to her from between its pages... And so they take up book after book, exchanging thoughts and opinions on what they read, until in the end they arrive at a single point of view and a mutual understanding in nearly all mat-ters... And without such under-standing, can a family be happy?

The Pastime of the Radio

In recent years another pastime, the like of which the ages never dreamed of, has come to us: the radio — that marvelous instru-ment of art which, had it been available to our forefathers, would have widened their understanding and amended many of their narrow, barren theories, and we ourselves would have turned out otherwise than in this state that has hold of us...

There is no other means that so entertains and profits us as sitting beside this magical machine, which links us in a few minutes, if we wish, to every corner of the inhabited world, and lets us hear the voices of the great — polit-ical leaders, heads of religions, scholars, orators, and musicians. The horizon of our thinking thus widens for gaining benefit, comparison, and deduction, so that we are never caught unawares by any passing affair of life or

sudden event, and their inventions — benefits which in times past we could not have obtained except with the greatest hardship and years of study.

How good it would be if the fam-ilies among us grew accustomed to the habit of listening around it with greater care and attention, for it is a school with no tuition to pay, a comprehensive encyclopedia with no index to read, a con-servatory of every instrument and every melody whose doors never close. It thus proves a necessary

and useful entertainment for the whole family, holding them with the magic of eloquence and logic and the art of song and music, so that they lack no branch of culture, nor any occasion for the diversion that men and young people seek outside their homes — save only what these spend, between the wine and the cup and at the green table, of money and health.

Amusement in the City

A man may weary of reading, if he is one of those whose posts oblige them to read during the daylight hours. He may also weary of listening too long to the radio in a closed room, and so he prefers to go out into the open country and enjoy