The following word reached us from one of the magazine's friends in Tanourine; we publish it with thanks:—

The Tanourine Charitable Society is young in years and great in purpose. It arose and flourished thanks to a gracious lady among the ladies of Tanourine. At the beginning of the summer of 1946, the enterprising founder, Mrs. Zakiya Khoury Harb, cast a general glance over Tanourine's material and moral condition, and saw that it was incumbent upon her — thinking woman that she is — to undertake the creation of a women's charitable society. Two strong motives drove her onward in realizing this honorable idea: the motive of sacrifice in the service of humanity, and the motive of awakening the feeling of the ladies and young ladies of Tanourine and raising their level to the ranks of the rising women of Lebanon. Both motives are worthy of appreciation and admiration.

She drew up the statutes of her society and announced them to the women of Tanourine, where they met with full approval. So the society came to be, and within a short time a select group of the ladies and young ladies of Tanourine joined under its banner.

Its president, Mrs. Khoury, did not wish to feed its charitable fund from subscriptions and donations alone; she wanted, with her companions, to undertake handiwork for the society's material benefit — openwork, embroidery, and knitting — which demands the expenditure of care and the sacrifice of hours, and which adds to the society's annual income extraordinary sums, the fruit of earnestness and steadfastness; and all this she achieved.

A full year of its activity had not passed before the fruit of those efforts ripened, and there accumulated in its fund a sum of money not to be despised. Nor were its works confined to visiting the sick and distributing alms to the poor: they went beyond, to what is greater and nobler, for its president and the senior members resolved to undertake a general charitable project — the erection of a great striking clock in the square of the Tanourine church, after the example of Beirut, Tripoli, and the great Lebanese towns.

There is no doubt that the charitable society of the women of Tanourine deserves thanks and encouragement, and merits praise for the zeal of its devoted president, that it may be able to perform its honorable mission in the service of humanity.

We omitted to mention, in the last issue, the conclusion of the engagement of Miss Layla Sarkis, daughter of our great colleague Mr. Ramez Sarkis, to the notable Dr. Daniel Katibah, one of the proprietors of the Mina Hospital in Tripoli. We wish her perfect happiness and felicity.

The Lebanese Syrian Club in Caracas, Venezuela, held the election of its administrative board for the year 1947–1948. The presidency was won by Mr. Ali Elias; the vice-presidency by Mr. Vicente Issa; the secretaryship by Mr. Aziz Musa Ibrahim and Dr. Youssef Arougo Ortega; the treasurership by Mr. Youssef Faraj; and membership of the administrative board by Messrs. Boutros Bojana, Emilio Ramos, Issa Luis, Luis Rafael Castro, Alberto Ramia, Mariano Rivero, Carlos Diaz Baez, Hanna Dunia, Dr. Iskandar Taribeh, and Philip Elias.

The Woman's Voice congratulates them, and hopes that at their hands this club, which renders the community the most distinguished of services, will flourish.

Mrs. Iqbal Izz al-Din Zouq, delegate of the Red Cross and president of the Women's Charitable Society in Tripoli, dispatched two telegrams: the first to Her Ladyship the First Lady of Lebanon, thanking her for allotting to the Red Cross branch and the Charitable Society in Tripoli a portion of the textiles for distribution to the poor; and the second addressed to the Marquise de Freige, president of the Red Cross institution in Beirut, expressing her thanks for the allocation of two thousand Lebanese lira for the charitable projects.

Mrs. Fatima Manla Nabli, secretary of the Women's Charitable Society in Tripoli, sent us the following word:

We are pleased to send to the magazine “The Woman's Voice” a photograph of the orphan girls of the “Home for the Orphan Girl,” founded by the Women's Charitable Society. This photograph shows the health evident on the faces of the wards of this home, thanks to the care and the tenderness that reign over the atmosphere of this institution. The food is not below the standard reached in the best Tripoli households, and the sleep-ing quarters likewise fulfill all the conditions of health, whether as regards the spacious-ness of the rooms and their cleanliness, or as regards their ventilation and their exposure to the sun. Thus these orphan girls move, in an atmosphere saturated with compassion and affection, toward a future in which, God willing, they will forget the pains of orphan-hood and the bitterness of deprivation.

On the occasion of the departure of Mr. Emilio Yafith and Mr. Nur al-Jawhari for Brazil, our generous friend Mr. Habib Saleh gave a party at his “hut” on the shore, attended by His Excellency the Prime Minister Mr. Riad al-Solh, a group of Their Excellencies the Ministers, and a number of deputies and journalists. It was a splendid party, in which shone the generous hospitality and geniality for which Mr. Saleh is known.

The committee of Girl Guides and Brownies of the Islamic Orphanage and the Girls' College held a party of good cheer and evening entertainment on Friday afternoon, the fourth of last July, on the stage of the Islamic Orphanage. A large crowd of the notables of the community attended, and saw the degree of advancement this institution has reached in the field of national education.

Mrs. Hana Khoury, wife of Mr. Elias Saba in Tripoli, has been blessed with a firstborn son. May God make him a child of health and safety, and delight the eyes of his gracious parents with him.