while we in Lebanon, government

and people, remain heedless of these authentic values which alone are the measure of the advancement of nations. In the published photograph Dr. Haberski appears before a canvas depicting the poet al-Safi al-Najafi, by the

radiance, have you risen like a new moon upon September, in the smile of the calm late afternoon?! And so we, at your coming, are feast days, drunken — and you among us the singer.

It was reported in the Rouyn

Noranda Press, in Canada, that Miss Marie Suleiman al-Jalbout, of Khiam, Marjeyoun, has won the higher diploma in music from an Irish university with brilliant distinction, for which she deserved the medal of honor —

and this at the hands of her brilliant teacher Paquin. The paper said, beneath a picture of this Lebanese young lady of Marjeyoun, that the success she has won in the field

brush of the artist Douaihy.

The "Nightingale of America," Miss Fadwa Kurban, has returned from the United States after touring the world letting her beautiful singing be heard. We have learned on good authority that she intends to give a concert at the

American University of Beirut, the proceeds of which will go to the distressed of Palestine. The Woman's Voice welcomes this artist compatriot and commends her patriotism and her zeal.

"Shadi" was the firstborn of the sensitive man of letters Ustad Antoine Karam and his wife, the woman of letters Mrs. Philo Lahd Karam... And the atmosphere in which little "Shadi" will grow up, in the shadow of a father of letters of refined feeling, is an atmosphere that promises well for

the child.
His uncle, the poet Ustad Atef Karam, congratulated him with these tender verses:
We are the echo of song, and you the singer —
take from the heart a prop for your pillow.
The fill of your eyes is a tryst for hopes,
and a flutter from the oud-player's plectrum!!
O floods of

of music does honor not to her alone, but to the province in which she lives, which is proud of her rare intelligence and diligence.

The respected Mrs. Najla Cortas Zureik, wife of the Honorable Dr. Constantine Zureik, vice-president of

the American University of Beirut, has been blessed with a beautiful baby girl, whom they have named "Afaf."

"The Woman's Voice," in congratulating Mrs. Cortas and her respected husband on her safe delivery, wishes the dear child a happy life in

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