with how color is known and how the eye is trained
to true appreciation, and the psychological side, which comes to complete it.
We know from the science of physics that light travels in waves of differing length and varying speed, and that these waves, in their interaction with the eye, produce this sensation which we call color. Every wave in it has its own particular color, according to its length or shortness. Therefore, when the white ray is broken up — as it breaks when it is reflected from the angle of a mirror or through a triangular prism — these waves separate, each on its own, and appear colored, much like the colors of the rainbow. These colors in light are the very ones we see in nature. For things in themselves have no color; rather, each thing has the property of absorbing or radiating certain of the waves of light, and the portion it absorbs or reflects is what determines its color. The red rose is the one that reflects the red ray with a short wave and reflects the remaining rays with longer waves. From this we understand why the colors of things change with the change of light and its kinds. Electric light, for example, alters colors, because the light waves in it differ from the waves of sunlight; and the light of the ordinary lamp alters colors for the same reason.
(To be continued)
Traces of Summer
The "Kindergarten" of the Lebanese Women's League invited the Beirut public to attend its annual party on the twenty-second of June.
The party opened with the Lebanese anthem; then the nursery children presented assorted songs in Arabic, French, and English. How lovely those children were in their embroidered clothes and their delightful dances... and how splendid and beautiful was the "Dance of Spring" presented by the children of the first grade and the kindergarten.
The audience was delighted to hear piano solos by some of the children. The kindergarten's administration had prepared an exhibition of the children's handwork, in which there was much artistic taste and arrangement — a thing that shows plainly the artistic training the kindergarten fosters in its children. The kindergarten in Beirut is among the noblest works that the Lebanese Women's League has given to Lebanon; for in this elegant, clean kindergarten the Lebanese child finds a clean atmosphere, in spirit and in body — which is what our children need in their earliest years.
Tomorrow people will know that the kindergarten of the Lebanese Women's League was the first stone in the homeland's new edifice...
May God ever bless the hands that rear our children in an atmosphere of love and beauty.
Among the news of Iraq brought to us by our correspondent there: the Iraqi Women's Union held a meeting last month, attended by delegates of the associations belonging to the Union: Mrs. Zakiyya al-Pachachi for the women's branch of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society; Mrs. Suad al-Umari and Miss Sabiha al-Sheikh Ahmad for the women's branch for the protection of children; and Mrs. Asiya Tawfiq Wahbi and Mrs. Kawzin Abd al-Qadir Rashid — Mrs. Ismat Sabah al-Said being absent on travel. For the Society for Combating Social Ills: Mrs. Badriyya Hasan Salman, Mrs. Mahasin Abd al-Hamid Mahmud, and Miss Madiha al-Athari; for the women's branch of the "Nation's Homes Society": Mrs. Rose Khadduri, Mrs. Aliyya Yahya Qasim, and Miss Azza al-Istrabadi; and Mrs. Afifa Rauf and Miss Naziha Rauf for the Women's League. The Union's secretary opened the meeting by reading the annual report on the Union's work and the projects it carried out during the past year; then elections for the administrative board for the new year were held. Mrs. Asiya Tawfiq Wahbi won the presidency; Mrs. Rose Khadduri, the vice-presidency; Miss Azza al-Istrabadi, the secretaryship; and Mrs. Badriyya Hasan Salman, the treasurership.
The Lebanese woman stretches out her hand to greet her Arab sister across the desert, hoping that the women of the Arabs in every land will remain the torches that light the path of the Arab peoples in their struggle and in their victory...