• The Lebanese Red Cross held a general meeting at the National Museum in Beirut, honored by the presence of Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon. At the meeting Mrs. Najla Saab read a general report on the various works of the Red Cross, and the treasurer likewise read her financial report; then ten members were elected to the administrative body, which is composed of thirty members. The following ladies won — titles duly reserved: Madame Gaston Hochar, Madame Jean Bustros, Madame Selim Takla, Miss Abqa Helou, Madame Jacques Tabet, Madame Alfred Nakkash, Madame Dr. Elias al-Khoury, Madame Jamil al-Daouk, Madame Ramez Ghazzawi, Madame Sheikh Khalil Alamuddin.

Moreover, the members of the Red Cross resolved unanimously to name Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon permanent honorary president — a resolution well placed, given the generous favors Her Ladyship has bestowed upon this noble project.

• We have received from Mrs. S. M. of Tripoli the following letter:

Greetings and respect. The oppor-tunity came my way to listen to The Woman's Voice broadcast delivered by Miss Marie Sabri last week. It pleased me greatly that The Woman's Voice does not confine itself to recording the great women's movements in the capital, but goes beyond them to every work of value carried out by any women's organization in any town of Lebanon — indeed, in any country of the Arab lands. The latest Woman's Voice broadcast is proof of this. In it Miss Sabri spoke of the Children's Welfare Society in Tripoli, that young society which has begun to occupy a dis-tinguished place in the city thanks to the efforts its worthy president, Mrs. Aliyya Zoq, expends upon it, and the care, vigilance, and wise, skillful direction she devotes to it. Yet the talk about the society passed over a matter which it is

neither just nor fair to pass over. For if the society has attained the success and flourishing it has attained thanks to the efforts of its present president, Mrs. Zoq, that was also, from another side, thanks to the first efforts — indeed the first struggle — carried out by a band of noble ladies in Tripoli, at their head Mrs. Yumn, the wife of Jamil al-Shal, the author of the idea and the actual founder of this precious humanitarian work.

By this word, which I hope you will kindly publish, I intended only to record one of the facts, and to recall a stage in this society's history that was filled with much effort, striving, and patience — and it was of the nature of the work to be wholly silent, for the good alone.

• The Orthodox Hand-work Society in Beirut held a benefit performance at the Roxy Cinema, at which the Honorable leader Dr. Halim Saadeh delivered a valuable address in which he recalled the praiseworthy charitable endeavors the society is carrying out, and gave thanks, in the name of the society's president, Mrs. Victoria Dabbas, and in the name of the working ladies and the members, to Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon for her sympathy and her championing of this project; he also singled out for thanks His Excellency the Minister of Public Works, Mr. Gabriel Murr, for his kindness in placing this performance under his patronage.

Then the Honorable leader con-cluded his speech with an eloquent ode, which was received with great approval.

• The Egyptian man of letters Dr. Abd al-Rahman Badawi delivered three philosophical lectures at the Institute of Higher Letters, which won great approval in learned circles.

• The Iraqi government has concerned itself with opening night schools to teach mothers household management and child-rearing.

• It appears from the latest statistics in Lebanon that the number of female students exceeds the number of males by 4,479.

• Miss Emily Bisharat, pres-ident of the Women's Union, has returned to Amman after

representing her country at the international women's congress.

• The government of the Hijaz is considering sending midwives to Europe to specialize in child care, at the government's expense.

• The Egyptian government is studying a memorandum on giving the right to vote to the edu-cated woman.

• In Jaffa, Palestine, the opening ceremony of the charity bazaar

To Our Subscribers in America

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