of the Women's Social Solidarity Association took place. It was attended by a large crowd of ladies, young ladies, and notables. Miss Sumayya Jarallah, secretary of the Women's Solidarity Association in Jaffa, delivered a fine word in which she said:
"Our country is tormented and we are in pain. Critical times confront us today, and whirlwinds blow upon us that all but choke us; and it is not in our power to sit with folded hands, moaning and aching and complaining of what has befallen us and may yet befall us. The time is a time for work, and we have only to work together to make our country a fitter, more useful, more profitable place for the life we live. In circumstances such as our present ones we face two problems, one political and one
social, which threaten our very existence. Let us leave the man to work in politics; there remain the social problems, which are no less important than politics, and which are necessary to our country and our people. Can a country succeed and rise unless life within it is firm and steadfast — unless the specters of disease and ignorance cease to hover over its people, and the specters of illusion and doubt cease to weigh upon their souls, casting them into sore straits and painful perplexity?
Here the mission of the Arab woman appears to us in its clearest meanings: it is for her to fill this great void, which our country needs filled more than any other people does; and this mission falls only upon the shoulders of the refined, well-bred woman.
• On Saturday, February 15, 1947, at exactly four o'clock in the afternoon, in the Maronite church at Heliopolis, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Joseph Abdo Abou Jaoude, owner and manager of the Abou Jaoude travel bureau in Beirut, Cairo, Alexandria, and Port Said, to the virtuous and chaste Miss Widad Ibrahim al-Ghusayn, daughter of Ibrahim al-Ghusayn, the famous contractor of Tanta (Egypt). Presiding over the ceremony was His Grace Bishop Boutros Dib, Patriarchal Vicar in Egypt and the Sudan. Standing as best man to the groom was His Excellency Sheikh Sami al-Khoury, Lebanon's Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Royal Egyptian Government in Egypt, together with a company of the great and eminent Lebanese residing in Egypt. We hope and wish her lasting success and a life of plenty.
• The Women's Charitable Projects Society in Aleppo distributed wool sweaters and broadcloth garments to its schoolgirls.
• Demonstrations of students, men and women, took place in Damascus, calling: We want elections in a single stage, after the manner of the advanced countries.
• The Zahrat al-Ihsan school celebrated the silver jubilee of the able teacher Miss Asma Abdo; the government also delegated Mr. Bustros on its behalf to decorate her with the Education Medal in recognition of her labors and efforts over 25 years. It was a splendid celebration, at which a select group of prominent men and women of letters spoke.
The young women of Lebanon have lost a refined emira of one of the most deep-rooted noble families. She passed into God's mercy following a Caesarean operation in which the baby girl survived and the mother died.
She is Emira Kathir Abillama Salem, daughter of Emir Murad and Emira Asma Abillama, granddaughter of the Emirs Qablan and Yusuf Ismail, who were among the great notables of the Lebanese in the days of the Ottomans and who governed the lands of Metn and Kesrouan for many years.
She was born in Jdeideh, Beirut, around the year 1923, and was educated at the St. Joseph School of the Josephite Sisters in Msaytbeh, where she distinguished herself by acting the most important roles in its plays; she took great care of its orphanage and its alumnae association, as she did later in assisting charitable societies, chief among them the Marian Compassion.
She was wed to the well-known pharmacist Mr. Nicolas Salem on the third of March 1943, and lived with him for three years, the two of them sipping the cups of bliss. When her delivery proved difficult last summer, the Caesarean operation was performed on her and carried her off — mourned for herself, for her refinement, her beauty, and her youth. May God have mercy on her.
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