As for her opinion of our Lebanese company as a whole, it is not one to be envied at all! "With the days I became deeply attached to my Lebanese friends, men and women. Perhaps they were not people of great consequence; perhaps they never showed any serious feeling of responsibility toward their people; but they were sensitive children, and they enjoy captivating qualities. And if the women among them talk a great deal without there being more than the slightest of meanings in their talk, there is no doubt that their conversation was never far from graciousness and generosity of spirit."

Then she comes to the women's renaissance during the events, saying of the demonstrations our ladies held:

"But what interests me most of all, whenever I think of those days, is the conduct of the women. It truly astonished me. Three times, on three different days, they went out to ask the representatives of the Allied Powers to lay their country's cause fairly before their governments..."

Then she gives her opinion of the significance of the ladies' activity, saying: "You may say that they achieved nothing, that the governments of the Great Powers paid no attention to them, and that even at General Headquarters in Cairo they were considered a nuisance, and perhaps a jest and a joke. Who knows? But I know that they did achieve one thing, and I believe that, though the first beautiful blaze of excitement has died down, it will endure forever. They achieved national unity, and they created in the country a united spirit which I do not think will be easy to extinguish."

And Lady Spears leaves our

Her melodies rang out from "West Hall" last month, and everyone with any share of musical culture, or any taste for it, heard her or heard her name... She is Diana Said Takieddine, the dark-eyed girl who, though she has not yet passed her fifteenth year, has soared high in the skies of fine music.

Diana was born in the Philippines, and began to play the piano while she was still a child. She studied diligently for four years under the Spanish musician Victorina Lopecad. And since her return to her homeland, Lebanon, three months ago, she has been continuing her lessons at the musical institute attached to the American University of Beirut.

Diana is in truth one of our gifted girls: besides her genius in music, she has inherited literary taste from her father, the gifted man of letters, and she composes poetry in English, which she has mastered... She is now hard at work learning the Arabic language and aspires to reach a high level in it.

Diana practices the piano eight hours a day. She studies and she composes! She has so far composed twelve complete musical pieces, the most important of which, in her eyes, is "The Lebanese Song." And Diana, apart from these artistic gifts, has a beautiful voice and inclines toward setting Arabic songs to music, so that her melodies come out with a beautiful Western color. She has succeeded in setting to music some of the verses from the play "A Handful of Wind." She loves her country Lebanon, and above all its natural scenery, and has no wish to leave it from this day on.

The Woman's Voice wishes this brilliant musician a dazzling future worthy of her lofty gifts.