Letters and News

◆ We are pleased that two gracious ladies of letters are joining the members of the supervisory committee of "The Woman's Voice": Mrs. Salwa Gharzuzi Shoucair, widow of the late Said Pasha Shoucair, and Mrs. Najla Cortas Zureik, wife of Dr. Constantine Zureik, vice-president of the American University of Beirut. There is no doubt that, with the joining of these two eminent ladies to the supervisory committee, "The Woman's Voice" will benefit signally from their experience and their counsel.

◆ It is perhaps stirring to repeat once again that "The Woman's Voice" is working hard for growth and progress, and that its editorial family strives, within the possibilities at its disposal, not only to maintain the high journalistic level the magazine now holds, but also to make it comprehensive, so that its contents embrace everything that benefits the Arab woman and gives her pleasure to read. To that end, the editorial family has resolved to add a new section to the magazine's sections, entitled "Ask Whatever You Wish." This section will answer, with sincerity, frankness, and understanding, every question that may occur to the magazine's women readers, touching the most varied matters — scientific, educational, personal, historical, social, national, and others. A special committee of leading women and men specialists in such matters will undertake to answer these questions. The magazine hopes that all our women readers will hasten to send in their questions, whatever their kind, to the editorial office. It is not necessary that the questioner's name be real or complete, provided the question is clear, and that we write on one corner of the envelope this phrase: "Ask Whatever You Wish."

Furthermore, the editorial family is about to finish forming a special committee of women specialists to edit two important sections of the magazine which circumstances have not allowed us to attend to sufficiently; these two sections are: food matters, and household matters.

And finally: the editorial office of "The Woman's Voice" welcomes every suggestion or criticism our women readers may kindly offer concerning this magazine. Only by this can we come to know their tastes, and only by this can we straighten our path toward achieving our noble aim in publishing this magazine.

◆ Miss Antoinette Ashi kindly sent "The Woman's Voice" her photograph to be printed on the cover, as we announced in a previous issue; and we regret very much that the photograph is not fit for engraving on the zincograph. On this occasion we wish to advise those wishing to send their photographs for the cover that these photographs should be on smooth, glossy paper, so that they can be properly engraved.

Miss Ashi has also kindly sent The Woman's Voice a piece of prose poetry entitled "O Moon," in which she says:
"O messenger of God
O gentle light
O wanderer astray in this space
"O moon...
"Wash my soul in your light!!
"And inspire me!!
Then unveil to me the hidden places of the soul"

◆ And from Miss Yvette Abboud, The Woman's Voice has received a poetic word entitled: "From You, O Night"
"Gently, O night... tread softly, for your phantoms are fearsome...
O darknesses, you have kindled in the folds of my heart the fire of memory.
Is there in you, O night, a song to release the sorrow that floods my heart?
Is there in the depths of your flowing dark a star weaving a veil of its rays?
Gently... O night... why do your fearsome phantoms race before my eyes??"