elects a teaching staff, whose number this year was 58.

I said: Does the school meet with encouragement from the government?

— She said: In the first five years from the school's founding we met with no encouragement whatever. Then the government granted us a subsidy of 300 liras a year, and supplied us two women teachers at its own charge. Today the government subsidy has reached twenty thousand Syrian liras.

The venerable president closed her account, saying: 'Dawhat al-Adab' is not a commercial venture

but a mission. And we are glad that we keep to our course, from which we shall never swerve: love of the homeland and sacrifice in its cause.

And while the Syrian man was striving and struggling in the streets, the Syrian woman was striving and struggling behind the walls of this school — by rearing the new generation in a sound national upbringing.

Here I took my leave and departed, after making the round of the schoolrooms; they stood empty save of benches and blackboards — and save of cleanliness and good order.