the fragrance of incense... and the faint light shining from the eye of the wounded or the sick is nobler than the light of candles in the temple..."

So, in God's keeping, my friend... work... and do not despair... and patience — for after the night there is a dawn...

And allow me to say, for myself and on behalf of my colleagues, the members of this club, that tomorrow we shall go ourselves to the city post office to send, by its means, to your side the first box containing medicines for your men and clothing for your orphaned children... I hope our first gifts will reach you at the earliest moment, and I beg you to accept them from sisters and brothers who take pride, all pride, in extending a helping hand to the Arabs of Palestine... And I still remember what you once said to me during our travels in Sweden: "A gift is not valued by its material worth; its value is the spirit that accompanies it." And as we entrust our gift to you, we entrust with it souls that ache for your pain and will rejoice in your happiness...

And how fine will be the day when America offers to the land of peace not only medicines for the ills of the body, but fruitful work and refreshing peace...

I hope the correspondence between us will not be broken, so that I may keep abreast of your news and sense your feelings — how the days have colored them — and I ask God that they be tinted with nothing but good fortune, victory, and prosperity among the blessings of life.

Farewell...

Your friend, Margarita

Great Men and Bachelorhood

The American writer Wallace George believes that the great man must not marry, and that the system of married life rests upon selfishness, whereas the great man is by nature an altruist who cannot confine his daily efforts within a narrow circle without his genius being affected and shrinking, and the human horizon narrowing before it. The writer has set out this theory in his latest book, "Thought and Woman." Among the strangest things in this book is his statement that man has no enemy but woman: she does not inspire in him thought and the marvels of imagination, as many believe, but inspires in him, on the contrary, a spirit of contempt for thought, of disdain and belittlement of it. Woman, in Wallace George's view, is a creature inclined to confine man within a narrow circle until his mind is afflicted with dullness.

And if the man is great, a struggle breaks out between him and his wife. Thus the American writer counsels great men to remain bachelors, and says: "The happiness of the great man lies in celibacy and in devoting himself to the service of thought alone."

Children's Toys

Educators hold that the toys with which children amuse themselves may profit them more than the lessons they toil to understand and memorize; for toys very often exercise their minds in a splendid mental discipline, releasing their budding imaginations and training them to deal with difficult problems.

Since ancient times people have taken care to devise the toys that fathers present to their children at festivals and holidays — wooden soldiers and war helmets — to instill in them the spirit of military heroism.

Europe has given much care to children's toys and shown great ingenuity in them, until children's toys became a profitable trade; factories were set up for them and began producing enormous quantities, and Europe came to draw a large part of its wealth from this profitable trade.