The Lebanese Women's League is holding its annual fête in the 'Gardenia' garden in Beirut at five o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the 18th of this October, under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, Sheikh Beshara El-Khouri. The fête will be interspersed with the dabkeh dance, performed by certain gracious ladies, young ladies, and cultivated young men. Its proceeds are set aside for the projects of the Lebanese Women's League.
Dar al-Kitab announces to the readers of its magazines and to those having business with it that the address of its branch in the United States is as follows:
Mr. Fuad Badr Dar al-Kitab 489 Fifth avenue New York 17, N. Y.
They may accordingly apply to it directly in all matters that concern them.
The marriage contract of our generous friend Mr. Adib Sarkis to the well-bred Miss Samira Najib Jaber was concluded on the afternoon of Sunday, September 21, 1947, in Beirut. To the bride and groom our sincere congratulations.
God has blessed the notable Mr. Habib Breid, director of the Department of Statistics and Personal Status, and his virtuous wife with a baby boy, whom they have named William. May God make him one of the children of well-being.
The Lebanese Women's League and the family of The Woman's Voice magazine offer to the noble campaigner Mrs. Sami Ghazzawi and to her husband, the great notable, their most sincere sentiments of condolence on the loss of their son Omar, mourned in his youth. May God grant recompense in the well-being of his brothers under the wing of their generous parents.
The Lebanese government has completed the formalities for purchasing the land it promised the Lebanese Women's League for the building of a great model kindergarten. The League gives the government its fullest thanks.
The Egyptian magazine al-Alam al-Arabi has appeared in new dress; a company of leading figures in letters, politics, society, and economics take part in its editing, with the participation of the great writer Mr. Mahmoud Taymour Bey and under the editorship-in-chief of the journalist Mr. Mahmoud al-Azab Musa. We wish our colleague progress and success.
Word has reached us from Dr. Fuad Ghosn of the resumed publication of the 'Scientific Medical Journal,' of which he is editor-in-chief. There is no doubt that this journal fills a great gap in the scientific press. We bid it welcome.
The Women's Union in Jerusalem has arranged with an able physician returned from Europe to devote four days a week to the care of children: one day for guiding mothers, one for the medical examination of children, another for weighing them, and so on. The Union made its preparations and held a women's congress attended by delegates of all the women's associations in the country. Elsewhere in this issue readers will find a commentary on this congress from the pen of the Palestinian woman of letters Miss Fayza Abdul Majeed.
The Orthodox Women's Committee in Acre has made it its custom to hold a literary festival every month, presenting to the public one of the sister countries. This month's festival was devoted to Lebanon: Miss Samira Azzam spoke on historic Lebanon, Miss Samiha Jarrah on literature in Lebanon, Miss Renée Matar on woman in Lebanon, and Mrs. Asma Tubi on free Lebanon and its folk literature. Miss Jawhara Roumani recited the poem that opens 'Neighbor to the stars, it has occupied the clouds.' The gathering was interspersed with Lebanese songs, and the public went away praising this active committee. The young women of this committee — though not four months have passed since its founding — have managed to stage an excellent moral play, whose proceeds were set aside for enlarging the club's school...
The ladies of Tulkarm have founded a club whose first aims are the enlightenment of woman in her household affairs, the rearing of children, and the raising of the social level. Those in charge of it have begun preparing a reading library, and they have named the club: the Concord Club.
The Solidarity Association has begun holding weekly cultural sessions at which one of the women writers gives talks on education and instruction. At the first session the association's secretary delivered a full report on the association's work and on the sewing workshop it has established.
The Women's Solidarity Association is preparing to open its great
charity bazaar, and will distribute its proceeds to the poor as usual.
The Society for the Care of the Sick and the Crippled in Jerusalem held a well-stocked bazaar on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the founding of its shelter. A hundred ladies supervised the sale of the bazaar's contents, and its receipts reached 820 Palestinian pounds. When this shelter opened it had 7 beds; it now has 30 beds.
The Evangelical Ladies' Society held an evening entertainment interspersed with plaintive music, mellow singing, and varied games, at which sweets and ices were served; its proceeds were set aside for building a new school in Haifa.
At the invitation of the Orthodox Women's Committee, Dr. Elias Deeb delivered a lecture entitled 'The Diseases of Summer and the Ways of Guarding Against Them.' A large audience attended, and it was a valuable lecture.
Miss Labiba Mustafa al-Husseini delivered a lecture in the hall of the Sports Club in Jerusalem entitled 'How Can We Fight Illiteracy?' It was a useful lecture.
The delegate of 'Dar al-Kitab' was returning from Europe aboard the steamer 'Sirenia' when he met the venerable leader Huda Hanem Shaarawi on the same ship, returning from Switzerland to Alexandria. He had the honor of making Her Ladyship's acquaintance, and expressed to her the reverence and gratitude that 'The Woman's Voice' cherishes for her. He then asked her the purpose of her journey to Switzerland, and she answered that she had gone to Switzerland on business connected with women's causes. But success did not attend her this time, and she spent a period in Switzerland for recreation. She went on to express her wonder at what she had seen of certain Arab families' eagerness to pass the summer in that country instead of in Lebanon, which she reckons among the ranks of the finest summering countries in the world, notwithstanding certain disagreeable matters touching living conditions which the summer visitor encounters.
When our delegate asked her opinion of the magazine 'The Woman's Voice,' she was kind enough to say: 'I have given my opinion many times: this magazine is very dear to me. It is the finest women's magazine in the Arab world, and I am proud that the Arab woman should have so high a literary magazine as The Woman's Voice. We publish an Arab women's magazine in Egypt; it is still in its first stage, and we feel the necessity of cooperation between it