Beirut has issued a weekly newspaper that speaks in its name and expresses its point of view. Our hope is that it will do its share in directing Lebanese public opinion toward free conviction and sincere patriotism.
• A delegation of members of the Lebanese Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah Society, headed by the noble Mrs. Evelyne Bustros, visited Nabatiyeh, where the society has begun opening schools in that region to combat illiteracy. May God bless the mission of the venerable president and of our gracious ladies, the members of this society, which has rendered Lebanon the most eminent of services.
• Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, president of the Arab Women's Federation of Lebanon, honored with a visit the Child Welfare Home in Musaytbeh — the first home for the care of poor children, and the home opened during her previous presidency. She was delighted with the little ones and with the care and attention they receive, and donated to them the sum of 25 Lebanese liras.
After hearing them sing various songs, she attended the monthly session of the Child Welfare Committee and endorsed the committee's idea of spending the proceeds of Child's Day for the year '48 on the opening of the third home. Miss Ibtihaj's presence and her encouragement had the greatest effect in heartening the committee to press on with its humane work with an energy and a zeal that know no weariness.
• The exhibits of the Child Welfare Committee, and its part in the child-welfare exhibition at the American University of Beirut, made the greatest impression upon the spectators. The committee has received
several letters in which their senders expressed their appreciation of the efforts the committee expends to raise the level of the poor child, and their admiration for the idea of "Child's Day."
Arabic Sweets — Ahmad Khalil al-Uraysi
Arabic sweets
are the adornment of tables and the joy of celebrations
So always order them from the shop of:
Ahmad Khalil al-Uraysi
Owner of the Uraysi Sweets Factory
Beirut, Lebanon — Burj Square
Shop telephone 62, home telephone 67
Damascene jams, sugared almonds, chocolate
Hadidi ghee, orange-blossom water, rose water
tence. And with all the strength he possessed he stepped toward her and carried her in his arms; then he began kicking that glittering chest off the shore with his feet until the waters swallowed it.
Then he bent and pressed upon her radiant brow his first kiss...
And she said to him, a ray of tenderness flooding her beautiful eyes: "Where do you wish our new home to be?"
And the youth was abashed; the embarrassing truth appeared before him; he choked on his saliva and did not answer, while his eyes gazed at her in supplication and appeal for mercy. But a flash of her inborn quickness of wit made her hasten to speak and pull him out of his confusion, and she exclaimed: Does not this place where we came to know each other please you? Do not these fair sands enchant you, whose feet the cold waves wash by night, and which the scorching rays of the sun kiss by day?
And then this poetic horizon — does it not bewitch you?
She glanced at her tender fingertips, then at his bewildered eyes, and without receiving any answer to her words she turned a silver ring that adorned one of her fingers — and behold, a mighty genie stood before her in reverence, bowing his enormous head, saying to her in his hoarse, resounding voice: At your service, my lady; let it be as you command...
She said: I wish us to have in this spot a spacious garden with far-stretching sides and high walls, the fragrance of whose flowers breathes forth in summer and autumn even more than in spring, and through whose lofty trees with their tender boughs sweet streams wind; and let there rise in its midst a great palace holding the most inspired of the arts of the Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, and the
Arabs, and holding — apart from the melodies of the birds — peace and quiet for two spouses happy in the blessing of love.
She said this and laid one hand over the fisherman's eyes and the other over her own; then she lifted them, and behold, there were "two gardens with spreading boughs"
such as no two eyes had beheld before? Good God — what a magnificent sight...!
And the youth began turning his gaze upon all that was around him, dazed and bewildered, while the girl at his side looked at him with fascination and delight. A little while passed, and behold, the fisherman youth stood clean and perfumed, trailing in elegant clothes, his fair one standing at his side in her white gown with its glittering trains, that he might be wedded to her... surrounded by the two attendants and the servants, lighting candles and pouring out perfume and singing enchanting songs full of secrets and riddles.
And weeks passed...
The fingers of dawn began to tear the veils of darkness and peep haughtily through them; a delicate breeze passed over the bride's face and she awoke smiling, shook off her soft covers, and rose to her young man, stroking his head with her hand and whispering to him in her tender tone:
Is it not time you awoke, my darling! The dew trembles enchantingly upon the flowers; the gentle breezes sway over the face of the sea until they seem to melt into the last remnants of the moonlight upon it; the birds of every kind glorify the Creator with their sweet warbling and fill this morning with magic
and beauty; and I... I long to hear the ring of your flowing words... And while she was drawing her face near to his, she felt