• We announce with deepest sorrow to our readers the death of our great colleague Mr. Gebran Tueni, owner of the distinguished newspaper "An-Nahar" and Lebanon's Minister Plenipotentiary in Argentina. Death overtook him in the wake of the tremendous exertion imposed upon him by his devotion in the service of Lebanon — a service whose happy results raised Lebanon's name high in those far lands.
To his honorable family go the most heartfelt condolences of the family of "The Woman's Voice."
• Miss Hafida al-Dabbagh (Palestine) has donated 25 Lebanese lira to the Arab Orphan Committee in Jerusalem — the value of the first prize in the competition of "The Woman's Voice," whose subject was: My frank opinion of the magazine The Woman's Voice. We have forwarded the sum to Mr. Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi, president of the committee in Jerusalem.
As for the brilliant woman of letters Mrs. Jihan Aony, she chose to present the value of her prize in the same competition to the magazine "The Woman's Voice," out of a desire to show her esteem and her support for this magazine, which labors on at its mission despite the difficulties that beset its path.
The Woman's Voice thanks our woman of letters for her gracious gift, and accepts it from her as a pledge of mutual devotion.
• The first issue has appeared of the newspaper "'Asa al-Janna," published every week by the League of Newspaper Editors in Damascus in agreement with Mr. Nash'at al-Taghlibi. And behold, this paper strides broadly along the road of the new Arab journalism. We wish it success, and congratulate those in charge of it on their splendid efforts.
• There has returned from Italy to Bethlehem one of its rising young women, Miss Gloria Antoine Abu al-Arraj, who had been studying at Queen Victoria College for the doctorate in chemistry.
• The Orthodox Shelter Society for the Sick and the Crippled in Jerusalem has issued its annual budget, which shows that the number of patients in the shelter is 33, and that the number of those placed in hospitals and given surgical operations at the society's expense is 160. The amount set aside in the bank for the building of a new shelter is 3,360 pounds. And
this vast and exacting work woman carries out on her own.
• The Orthodox Women's Committee called an important meeting at the offices of the Union and Women's Solidarity societies: five first-aid squads were formed and attached to five physicians to receive lessons in first aid. The committee then invited the city's health officer, who kindly delivered a lecture entitled "Cholera and Diphtheria, and How to Guard Against Them."
• The Women's Union in Jerusalem held a contest for the children under its care; the judging committee chose the four children of strongest constitution,
who received valuable prizes. The rest received lengths of good cloth.
• The ladies of Bethlehem have founded a shelter for destitute girls, which they have named the Institute of the Holy Cross. Today it houses 35 girls who find in it refuge, tenderness, and learning. The sons of Bethlehem in the Mahjar have generously given the sum of 1,221 pounds to this shelter.
• There will shortly appear, by Professor Musa Sulayman, professor of Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut and a member of this magazine's family, a book entitled "It Is Told of the Arabs" — a collection of old Arabic tales chosen by the author from various sources. There is no doubt that these stories will be of great benefit in the world of study.
• Mr. Fuad al-Sa'id and his
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