— as you have foretold — will be dragged off and cast into the volcanoes? Will you not speak to us of the revolt blazing in the hearts of the simple folk of the earth, who know that the atomic bombs will level their homes and their villages in two years — as you said? But I said nothing.

O Madame Tabouis! In your hands, and in the hands of your peers among the great women of the West, lie life and death! You told us at the end of your lecture that there are in the world great hearts full of love, and that the spirit of good will prevail, and men will live in happiness!

O Madame Tabouis! How worthy it would be of you, and of the great women your peers, to travel the earth and knock at the doors of the mighty and say to them: Enough! Enough of the lifeblood that has been spilled and the monuments of civilization that have been razed! Enough of vengeance and hatred and evil and rancor!

As for us here, in this chain of villages scattered from the foothills of the peaks down to where the waves break, we are a simple, gentle people, with neither strength nor power, and with no say in the quarrel of the giants! And if you knock at the hearts of the righteous and faithful men and the righteous and faithful women, you will receive but one answer: the Lebanese has no hope but to remain a friend to the East — the Islamic East and the Russian East — and a friend to the West — the European West and the American West.

O Madame Tabouis, take it from a Lebanese woman, and tell them, if you are asked, that the Lebanese dream a beautiful dream: that they be left alone, and that they remain — in the struggle that is coming upon the world with its evil — an oasis of spreading shade to which the weary may take refuge!

lose their strength and their roundness and waste away or grow slack, and the body acquires

an unbecoming personal stout-ness or a repellent thinness, and the breast enlarges and sags — and so on through the rest of beauty's enemies and disfigurers.

Know then, Madam, that your beauty is your capital in life, and that this beauty lies in beauty of body and beauty of face, as it lies in beauty of soul and perfection of mind, and in fullness of health and strength; and that every woman can be beautiful in all these respects with a little good understanding and strength of will. And if she loses this beauty, let her not blame nature — the blame falls entirely upon her, as the result of her own neglect.

And since I have set out to take you by the hand, to bring you to a new world of happiness founded on overflowing health, magnetic vitality, and complete womanliness, I shall take up all these factors in my inquiry one by one, so that, God willing, and by the strength of your will, you may reach that goal we all seek — namely, happiness.

The Woman's Voice — Mr. Ahmad al-Urfali wrote this article from Egypt especially for the magazine. Mr. al-Urfali holds a diploma in medical massage and beauty culture from the University of Chicago. He has kindly accepted the magazine's invitation to contribute, and to devote to The Woman's Voice his articles on elegance and beautifi-cation. Our readers may address to him, through the magazine, any inquiries and questions relat-ing to this subject.

The society is made up of founding members, subscribing members — women and men — and an administrative body com-posed of a president, Mrs. Zahra al-Abed; a vice-president, Mrs. Saniyya Ayyubi; a treasurer, Mrs. Asma al-Azm; the accoun-tant, Mrs. Wajiha al-Yusuf; and their two secretaries, Mrs. Hayat al-Mu'ayyad al-Azm and Miss Fatima Diab; together with administrative members.

The society has a sewing workroom which opens every week, where such members as wish gather to sew and to make up clothing and necessities for poor children. The society is con-ducted with precision and order.

The number of children to whom milk is distributed daily ranges between eighty and a hundred; fifty children are treated there daily; and the society comes forward with the necessary assistance in food and clothing in cases of press-ing need.

The society's revenues are made up of the donations of the charitable and benevo-lent, government assistance, and members' subscriptions.