Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, president of the Arab Women's Union, addressed the following letter to the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies:

To His Excellency the esteemed Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies,

The Lebanese Arab Women's Union has previously presented to the honorable Lebanese Chamber of Deputies several petitions and memoranda whose lot was neglect and disregard — a matter which woman regrets, since she consid-ers the parliamentary assembly a national council that listens to the wishes of the nation, fulfills its hopes, and safeguards its right.

And since woman is, in the nature of things, a Lebanese citizen, and constitutes half the nation, she is entitled to raise her voice, demanding her right to life and the attainment of a legitimate equality provided for by the Constitution and sanctioned by custom and equity.

Accordingly, the Lebanese woman presents this petition to the Chamber of Deputies in her capacity as one of the members of the nation which it represents, requesting the creation of special legislation, in amendment of the Lebanese Constitution, that pro-vides for her right as a citizen and makes clear what rights are hers and what duties are upon her, after the example of the other nations with which Lebanon keeps pace in the field of progress, civilization, and politics — all of which aim at justice for mankind and the preservation of the rights of man.

The Women's Union therefore begs your honorable Chamber to recognize woman as a citizen like man and to grant her her civil rights, and it draws your attention to the fact that she shares with you nationality, civic life, and history.

Be pleased, Your Excellency the Speaker, together with the dis-tinguished deputies, to accept our

esteem and our highest respect.

The Woman's Voice expresses its absolute support for the request presented by the Women's Union, and may the present Chamber of Deputies not close its term before performing this fine deed, which will have the most far-reaching effect on the future of Lebanon.

The Woman's Voice is pleased to acknowledge on its pages the

effective support and the valuable services rendered to it by two great Lebanese emigrants, the notables Mr. Nicolas Saab and Mr. Farid Nabhan, pillars of the Lebanese community in Canada and in Nigeria, in Africa.

We turn to them with thanks for their zeal toward the enterprise of this magazine. May God multiply their like, and keep them a living example of Lebanese energy and

Founder and president of the Helping Hand Society, and head of the kindergarten school in Bino, Akkar, North Lebanon.

Mrs. Hanneh Atiyeh is one of the great women, a model of piety, character, and social work. She was born in Abeih in 1859 to a noble and ancient family: her father, Fares Mishriq Haddad, was the cousin of the thrice-blessed late Patriarch Gregorius Haddad, of hallowed memory. She received her elementary schooling in her home town and completed her studies at the American school in Beirut, where she took with distinction the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1877. She then spent some years as directress of the mission schools in Araya and in Homs, and there she met the late Reverend Iskandar Atiyeh, who married her in 1885. She was the model of the good wife and the wise, virtuous mother, spending her time in managing her house, rearing her sons, and helping her husband, and what time remained to her in serving the public and advancing the daughters of her sex in the town. She bore five sons, whom she reared in the best manner, planting in their souls the loftiest virtues. Each of them holds a distinguished social position and has done good that cannot be denied. Her eldest son, Farid Bey Atiyeh, spent many years as chief of the inspectors of education in the Egyptian Sudan, and His Majesty King Fuad the First conferred on him the rank of Bey in recognition of his merit and learning. Her two sons the doctors, Ragheb and Naji, are skillful physicians who still labor at easing the pains of human-ity and treating the poor without charge; and the other two, Atiyeh and Sami, hold learned degrees and have filled various posts.

The day she came to Bino, her husband's town, was a blessed day, for hers is the foremost hand in raising the standing of woman there

and moving her forward, through the sound principles and good works she has spread.

She founded the Helping Hand Society in 1919 and set about hold-ing literary fêtes, spending their proceeds on aiding the destitute. She spared no effort in gathering donations until she obtained the money needed to build a school in a spacious house in 1931; and she still directs the school with her wisdom, unflagging, watching over its flourishing and its progress, and providing free schooling for many of the children of the poor.

She has resolved to celebrate the society's silver jubilee next summer, and she will then retire from the presidency of the society and the school, seeking rest after this long life filled with great works.