mentioning therein

that the patients treated at the hospital during the year numbered 2,891, whose treatment was given free by nine of the best physicians of Jerusalem, while a number of gracious ladies and young ladies of the first-aid committee worked side by side with the physicians... A tenth physician volunteered to give lectures on first aid to the gracious members. The association's income this year came to 1,128 pounds, of which 961 pounds were spent upon these noble aims of hers.

• The Society for the Support of Orphan Girls in Jaffa held a cinema benefit, allotting its proceeds to the school attached to it, in which the number of pupils has now reached 360 girls, and in which there are three scout troops. Twenty-three years have passed since the founding of this school, during which it has risen until it has become one of the finest national schools in the country.

• The Women's Union in Acre has arranged with two generous physicians for the free treatment of the poor who apply to the Union. Each physician has set aside half a day a week for this purpose.

• Her Majesty the Queen of

Egypt opened the children's home established by the ladies of the Red Crescent.

• A royal decree may soon be issued entrusting the presidency of the Mabarrat Muhammad Ali to Her Majesty the Empress Fawzia.

• Her Royal Highness the Princess Faiza is expected to accept the presidency of the Modern Woman Society.

• Mrs. Zulaykha al-Shihabi, presi-dent of the Arab Women's Union, has arrived in Palestine, her efforts having been crowned with success in strengthening the bonds between the women's unions and organiza-tions in Egypt.

• The women's movement has grown active in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and an amend-ment to the present body of the Union is expected shortly.

• Aleppo was honored by the wife of His Excellency the President of the Syrian Republic, who alighted as an honored guest with the wife of the respected deputy for Aleppo, Mr. Ahmad Khalil al-Mudarris. Numerous delegations and women's associations flocked to welcome her on her arrival.

• The woman of letters Mrs. Nadima

al-Minqari has founded a women's magazine in Damascus under the name of "Majallat al-Mara."

Its first issue has reached us, and we found it containing valuable articles treating various literary and social subjects.

A hearty welcome, then, to the dear sister journal.

• God has blessed our generous friend Mr. Nadim Dimashqiya and his virtuous wife, in London, with a boy whom he has named "Riyad." May God make him one of the children of safety in the shelter of his generous parents and his two eminent grandfathers.

• There was concluded in Beirut the marriage of the great notable the Marquis de Freige to that lady of virtue and nobility, Miss Doumani. The celebration was confined to family and relations. To the noble bride and groom, our most sincere good wishes.

• Miss Marie Sabri, one of the members of the family of "The Woman's Voice," has returned from Egypt, where she spent the spring holiday. She has promised us to give, on the Woman's Voice program over Radio Lebanon, a talk describing her impressions of the sister country.