she came to a pool of clear water. She stood at the water's edge, looked into the pool, and said:
— O lord of lions, there is the lion who barred my path. Come and look at him. And there is the fat rabbit standing beside him.
The lion hurried to the edge of the pool and looked into the water, and he saw in it his own image, and near it the image of the clever rabbit. He took it for his rival the lion, with the fat rabbit beside him,
and no longer doubted the truth of her words. His anger blazed against the lion, and he sprang upon him meaning to kill him—and drowned in the water!
As for the clever rabbit, she rejoiced greatly at her deliverance from death, and went running to the beasts to bring them the glad news of their deliverance from the tyrant lion.
"Adapted from Kalila and Dimna"
The president of the Lebanese Women's League, Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, was taken with an indisposition, on account of which she had to enter Dr. Haddad's hospital, where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Tarcha kept to the hospital for some time, and the venerable president left Dr. Haddad's hospital after regaining her full health. The family of The Woman's Voice congratulates Mrs. Tarcha on her precious recovery, and wishes this blessed, humane personality long life in the service of the Lebanese woman and of Lebanese society.
• There returned from Moscow last May the respected Mrs. Salma Takieddine, wife of our Minister Plenipotentiary in Moscow, the Honorable Sheikh Khalil Takieddine. The Woman's Voice extends the warmest of welcomes to the gracious lady and to her family.
• Upon the flood of refugees after the famous events of Haifa and Jaffa, the Lebanese Women's League called a meeting, held at the Officers' Club, to consider how to aid the unclothed refugees. The meeting was presided over by Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, president of the Lebanese Arab Union. The ladies of Lebanon, together with the Lebanese Red Cross, performed works that truly call for esteem and admiration.
And so it was that the ladies of Lebanon were able to collect large quantities of clothing, which were distributed to the needy after being cleansed.
• Mr. Muhammad al-Naqqash, the well-known Lebanese man of letters, wrote in the esteemed newspaper Beirut al-Masa a piece entitled 'This Is Not the Voice of the Lebanese Woman,' in which he attacked the magazine The Woman's Voice because it published on its cover a picture of a bouquet of roses for the month of May, and because it published nothing about Palestine — his argument being that May is the month of Palestine and not the month of roses...
Nor did his piece confine itself to The Woman's Voice; it went beyond it to the Lebanese Women's League itself...
It gives The Woman's Voice great pleasure to point to the sat
isfaction of Palestinian women's circles with The Woman's Voice, shown in the letter it received from the secretary of the Women's Social Solidarity Association in Haifa, Miss Mufida al-Dabbagh. It would also ask the man of letters al-Naqqash to look back over its issues from the day the situation in Palestine grew critical: he will see that The Woman's Voice is the only magazine in the whole Arab world, women's and otherwise, that has devoted its finest pages and its strongest pens to the Palestine question...
And if the painful events that occurred in Palestine all took place after The Woman's Voice had been printed in full, the fault does not lie with The Woman's Voice...
Mr. Fouad Suleiman, editor-in-chief of Dar al-Kitab, replied to Mr. al-Naqqash in the same newspaper, Beirut al-Masa...
To the honorable and worthy editor-in-chief of the magazine The Woman's Voice, kind greetings:
It is cause for satisfaction, and inspires gladness, that your flourishing magazine has taken an interest in publishing pieces and news about struggling Palestine — beloved Palestine, in whose lands the battle of life or death is now being waged: either victory forever, or defeat for generations. But no, we shall not be defeated, now that every one of us has become a fighter, working hand in hand with his brother to save Palestine from loathsome Zionism. The women's organizations in Palestine have risen to labor strenuously at every kind of assistance within their power — first aid, sewing, and cooking food for the fighters — even the battles we have entered; and nothing shall turn us from our resolve until the enemies are crushed.
Please accept our highest respect. Mufida al-Dabbagh, secretary of the Association
• There arrived in Lebanon at the end of last May the refined Miss Hawa Idris, who came as the guest of the president of the Lebanese Arab Women's Federation, Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura. Miss Idris is a goodly shoot from the planting of that blessed hand — the hand of the venerable lady, the late Huda Hanem Shaarawi. Miss Idris was