Mr. Musa Sulayman, of this magazine's family, paid a visit to the city of Latakia at the invitation of the English High School, to deliver the address at the distribution of diplomas. He seized the opportunity to make contact with the women's movement there, and here conveys it to our gracious readers in this delightful account.

Mrs. Alice Ashqar Awad, treasurer of the Child Welfare Society, with her husband and her two children

A charity bazaar of the Friends of the Poor Society

A charity bazaar of the Society for the Refinement of the Young

But it is a clamor in the cause of good and charity, not in the cause of evil and division. But it is a clamor against the poverty that hangs over a great company of the children of this suffering humanity, who have not been blessed with the morsel of bread they scrape by on, save at the cost of the utmost hardship. But it is a clamor in the cause of protecting the child from the diseases and epidemics that ravage the bodies of our children, crippling society and battering its foundations to the ground. What a blessed clamor it is, raised by a choice company of the ladies and young ladies of Latakia in the face of poverty, ignorance, and disease, all of them joining hands in mercy, whatever their creeds, to carry out a mission that is among the noblest of missions — the mission of man toward his brother man! And now, for the reader, some of what the ladies of Latakia and its rising youth are doing in the field of society:

The Society for the Refinement of the Young

This association was founded in the year 1944, and it undertakes the teaching and training of poor children who give proof of diligence and a desire for learning. The association chooses these children after a careful study of their material condition, their conduct and character and the conduct and character of their parents, and it continues its study of them while they are at their school desks, keeping constant watch on their progress at school and providing them with all the school supplies and the like that they need.

The founders: The founders are a select group of the young women and young men of the town. I made the acquaintance of some of them, and found in their talk of the association, and of carrying it forward, such enthusiasm and sincerity as gives the homeland glad tidings of sons and daughters like these. They are: the Misses Helen and Florence Fattal, Adiba Awad, Eva Jirjis, Lulu Cleo Papadopoulos, Ethon Madani, Salima Sarko; and Elias Awad, Farid Awad, and Albert Madani. These soldiers have managed to provide schooling for five girls and three boys, paying their school fees on their behalf, buying them books, supplying them with clothes, holding parties for them on the occasion of the feasts, and giving them presents — all of which has moved the people of Latakia to praise the association handsomely and to encourage it, thronging in unexampled numbers to the charity bazaars held to feed the association's treasury with the necessary funds.

The Friends of the Poor Society

And has the poor man friends? But 'a friend is for the time of need' — so say the proverbs, and so the refined lady Odette Saadeh Aish wished to say. This generous lady was kind enough to receive me in her beautiful house overlooking the dreaming shore, and she said: 'It never occurred to us to found an association in the true sense of that word. It was an idea that came into our heads when we were a

A group of the members of the Society for the Refinement of the Young