several congresses in Europe and America; and it helped turn the government's attention to issuing the labor law and the law on the employment of juveniles.
The club's affairs are run by an administrative committee of 21 members, elected by the rest of the members for a term of three years, the election of a third of them being renewed each year. This committee has an elected president, who today is Mrs. Alice Nassar, wife of Dr. Ibrahim Nassar.
Membership in the club is open to every countrywoman who wishes it. As for the club's funds, before 1927 most of them came from the branch of the Young Women's Christian Association in America; since that date, the club has been able to meet its expenses from members' subscriptions and from the fund-raising campaigns it conducts every year.
The delegate of "The Woman's Voice" visited the club's center in Beirut, where she was received by the rising woman of letters Miss Adma Bayoud, who kindly supplied her with the information we have summarized for our women readers, and with the pictures they see beside these words about the activity of this club — whose social services, performed with sincerity and a true, positive patriotism, we need as much as anything we need.