woman to choose what pleases her among the fashions in walking-out clothes. The creators of fashion in London, Paris, and New York incline toward the simple skirt and the long jacket. Even light summer suits with short sleeves are now worn with long jackets. And the elegant woman usually sets a bright knot of jewels in the buttonhole of her jacket.
groom our warm congratulations.
• A great throng of the friends of Dr. Hanna al-Shammas and Mr. Mikhail Mufarrij gathered in Tripoli to celebrate the marriage of their children, Miss Najla Shammas and Mr. Nadim Mufarrij. The celebration was one of the happy occasions of the season. May God prosper the noble couple.
• We have learned with pleasure of the birth of the beloved child Hanna Nicola al-Khoury, firstborn of his parents, Mrs. Frosine and Mr. Nicola al-Khoury of Fih, in the Koura. May God make him one of the sons of well-being.
• A baby girl, their firstborn, has been born to Mrs. Lucie Haidar and to Mr. Joseph, her husband, of Fih. May God preserve her and make her a delight to her parents' eyes.
• We have learned from Cairo that Mr. Joseph Abdo Abou Jaoude, the well-known merchant and owner of the "Joseph Abou Jaoude Travel Bureau" in Beirut and Cairo, has become engaged to the refined Miss Widad, daughter of the notable Ibrahim al-Ghossein, at a charming family party on Saturday evening, September 21. We wish them the fullness of joys.
• Last September in Chekka the marriage was celebrated of the generous Dr. Hasib Barbar to the cultivated Miss Layla, daughter of Dr. George Saba. May they have prosperity and sons.
• His Excellency the Prime Minister, Riad Bey el-Solh, and his gracious lady wife have been blessed with a baby girl. May God make her one of the daughters of well-being in the shadow of her noble parents.
• Mrs. Aliyya al-Khalil Saidi has moved from Sidon to Beirut. She receives lady callers at her home in the Raml al-Zarif quarter, in the building of Mr. Adib al-Ladhiqi, on Fridays after three o'clock, in the third and fourth week of every month.
• "The Woman's Voice" has come to an arrangement with an expert in the science of handwriting-reading — that science which discloses a person's character and future from the kind of hand he writes.
So you may seize this opportunity,
Madam, and send "The Woman's Voice" a sample of your handwriting, provided you observe the following conditions:
1) The writing must be in both languages, Arabic and French (or English).
2) Are you married or not?
3) The color of your hair and eyes.
4) Your height and your weight.
5) Your real name, or the initials of your name.
And thus you may soon learn, in the pages of "The Woman's Voice," your future and your character.
• In Bishmizzine, in the Koura, the marriage was celebrated of the cultivated Miss Suad, daughter of Sheikh Ishaq Juha, to Mr. Shafiq Juha, one of the professors of history at the American University of Beirut. To the noble bride and
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