We have received several letters from Mr. Fuad Badr, director general of the administration of Dar al-Kitab, informing us of the success he is meeting in the United States in the mission for which he traveled. We shall acquaint our readers with the substance of such of this news as concerns them in our coming issues. For the present we content ourselves with mentioning that a large body of the Lebanese emigrants have asked Mr. Badr to bring out an English-language edition of the magazine "The Woman's Voice."
We are pleased to announce to our readers in America that Mr. Badr has taken a temporary office, so that it may be easy for them to communicate with him directly throughout his stay there. His address is as follows: 489 Fifth Avenue New York 17, N.Y. Telephone: MUrray Hill 2-2492.
Mrs. Awatef al-Mar'i, president of the Women's Charitable League Association in North Lebanon, has sent us a copy of the telegram she addressed to Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon, entreating Her Ladyship to grant the said association a quantity of the cloth arriving from the Lebanese emigrants, that it may distribute it among the poor and needy of the North. The Woman's Voice supports Mrs. Awatef's entreaty, and hopes that the First Lady of Lebanon will grant it, knowing as we do her all-embracing kindness, of which not a single district of this dear country has been deprived.
The office of Dar al-Kitab was cheered by the visit of the esteemed Egyptian journalist Mr. Zakaria Khalifa, editor on the newspaper "al-Misri" and other great Egyptian papers. Mr. Khalifa admired the publications of Dar al-Kitab and the intellectual and artistic effort by which they are distinguished, and he expressed his wish to see "The Woman's Voice" more widely circulated in the Egyptian land than it now is, for the benefit it contains for
the Arab family. He was kind enough to call upon Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, the Responsible Director and president of the Lebanese Women's League, at her home. Mr. Khalifa has come to spend a few weeks traveling about in Lebanon and Syria. He is heartily welcome.
There has returned from Cuba the honorable Mrs. Hayfa Nasr Haidar, with her husband Dr. Nicolas Haidar, after they had spent some eighteen years there. Dr. Haidar holds a degree in law from the University of Havana, and he had the honor of calling upon His Excellency the President of the Republic and presented him with a Cuban flag, as a gift from the Lebanese colony in Cuba to His Excellency the President. Dr. Haidar and his wife, accompanied by our friend Mr. Musa Sulayman, visited the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where the director
of the Foreign Ministry, Mr. Fouad Ammoun, received them with every welcome, and they spoke at length of the Lebanese emigrants in Cuba, and of their excellence and brilliance in all the fields in which they work. A hearty welcome, then, to Mr. Haidar and his honored wife.
The two Hajjahs, the Misses Aisha and Makram Abu Khadra of Gaza, have donated the sum of 25 thousand pounds toward the costs of building 42 stores in Jaffa... These stores will be made a religious endowment, their income to be spent upon the charitable hospital which the two great benefactresses are to establish, and for whose building they have donated the sum of half a million pounds...
The dispensary attached to the Women's Union in Jerusalem has issued a statement to public opinion,
Scarcely will this issue of "The Woman's Voice" have arrived before there takes place, God willing, the splendid celebration of the wedding of Sheikh Khalil el-Khoury, son of His Excellency the President of the Republic, to the charming Miss Jacqueline Georges Arida, daughter of the Honorable vice-consul of Great Britain. "The Woman's Voice" shares in the palace's rejoicing, and wishes the noble bride and groom a happy life, joined with lasting prosperity and felicity, in the shadow of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Sheikh Beshara El-Khouri, and his wife, Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon. And "The Woman's Voice" will do its utmost to publish in its coming issue the most important particulars connected with this great celebration, and whatever pictures it can gather of it, for the perusal of our eager women readers here and in the lands of emigration.