And these societies perform commendable, well-appreciated works in all the social, political, and literary fields...
When we asked her about the Tulkarm society, over which she presides, she answered: "In 1936 the society founded a kindergarten for children, with seventy pupils. It contributes to the government child-welfare institution which our society had earlier founded in 1930. The society has numerous charitable projects for aiding the needy. And we are today founding a club for ladies, embracing all intellectual, social, and athletic concerns. Most important of all, the society keeps step with the sincere patriotic spirit for which the town of Tulkarm is famous, and so all the members of the society hold themselves ever ready to do their share in supporting the right of the Arabs in Palestine."
We asked her about the activity of the Palestinian woman in the Palestine question, and she answered: "The Palestinian woman is firmly resolved to do her full share in the service of this cause of ours. The Palestinian woman lets no opportunity pass without seizing it in defense of our rights. And the Union is training the girls in the methods of passive defense, should disturbances arise in the future."
Here the president, Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, joined the conversation and offered her valuable opinion that attention must be directed toward effective propaganda in America, Europe, and the rest of the United Nations. Thus it appears that there is a pressing need to work on two fronts: the internal and the external.
• The Polish government has conferred upon our friend the great administrator Mr. Adib al-Nahhas, director of the Interior, the Polish Order of Merit, in recognition of his well-appreciated efforts in extending a helping hand to the Polish refugees. We congratulate Adib Bey on this recognition, which he deserves.
• The kindergarten of the Lebanese Women's League presented a lovely gift to the Child Welfare of the Women's Union. This gift, donated by those children, made a most welcome impression upon their little colleagues.
• Mrs. Lily Badre, a member of the supervisory committee of "The Woman's Voice," visited Palestine during the past month. There she made contact with the leaders of the women's movement, to acquaint herself with their activity in the social field; she also held a number of interviews in women's circles, their purpose being to gather the views that might be turned to
Lebanon has received news of the death of the peerless self-made man, the great industrialist, a man of nobility and generous deeds, a model of honesty and rectitude, a man of benefactions and noble works — the lamented, the late Chevalier Basil Yafeth.
He was one of the branches of the noble Yafeth tree, which carried itself from the heights of this proud mountain — from Shweir — to Brazil, where it grew and rose and flourished and bore fruit, its boughs hanging low, laden with the fragrant harvest and the dewy perfume.
He was the dean of the Lebanese colony which, for all its high standing in Brazilian society and in the fields of its activity, appreciated the worth of his talents and his character and the greatness of his spirit and his heart, and so chose him as its dean — foremost in pursuit of the highest aims, bold on the paths of chivalry and honor.
The Lebanese Women's League, bound to the deceased and to his noble family by ties of loyalty and gratitude, comes forward to his virtuous widow — who, with her keen intelligence, her penetrating judgment, and her exemplary personality, shared with him in building his glory, his fame, and his success — to share in her grief and sorrow, and offers to her, to his two daughters, and to all the Yafeth family in the Mahjar, in the homeland, and under every sky, its heartfelt condolences. May God inspire them all with the beauty of patience, and may He grant them, and the homeland, fair recompense in this noble company of the family's men, its youth, and its grandchildren.
May God have mercy on the dear departed and grant him rest in the expanse of His paradise.
account in working to strengthen the bond that ties "The Woman's Voice" to these circles. All this resulted in her great gratitude for the sincere good wishes which the finest women's circles expressed for the continued growth of this magazine, which alone expresses the refinement and progress the Arab woman has attained in the two fields of thought and journalism. The leaders of the women's renaissance promised to supply the magazine with news of their activity, that the ties among the Arab woman in all her lands might thereby be strengthened.
Mrs. Lily Badre's admiration was stirred by what she observed of the praiseworthy activity that stands out in the various brilliant works by which woman contributes to the service of society.
• The Alumnae Association of the American School for Girls, presided over by the excellent Mrs. Nadwa Massouh, never tires of making every effort to extend a helping hand to the poor and to those gifted girl students who are unable to pay their school fees in full. To this end it resorts to all manner of means to find the necessary money, chief among them the holding of literary and artistic entertainments. The latest entertainment, which it held in the assembly hall of the Girls' School, was unique of its kind in Tripoli, for it invited the orchestra of the Lebanese Academy under the direction of Mr. Alexis Boutros, which carried the
audience aloft to the upper spheres on the strains of Brahms and Handel.
To the society's president, Mrs. Nadwa, and to its gracious members, sentiments of appreciation and admiration for their praiseworthy efforts.
• Miss Labiba al-Husseini delivered a lecture at the athletic club of the Women's Union in Jerusalem, entitled "A Review of the Book Jane Eyre." The lecture was a picture of the book Jane Eyre by its author Emily Brontë; then the lecturer offered her own views on the characters the book presents. When she had finished her talk, a pleasant discussion took place between her and the listeners about the book's characters and its author herself. A large audience attended the gathering, which ended amid applause and encouragement...
• The Women's Solidarity Society donated the sum of one hundred pounds to the fund of the Arab Nation in Palestine — a well-appreciated donation, and a generous deed of Her Majesty the exalted Queen of Transjordan, who presides over this society.
• The Society of the Myrrh-Bearers in Bethlehem distributed clothing to the value of 150 pounds on the occasion of the glorious feast of Easter, and this act of theirs left its good impression upon people's hearts.
• The Girls' Education Society in Haifa has opened a branch to teach girls the principles of sewing, at the