over the girl among us periods in which she lived pensive and gloomy, in constant frowning and anxiety...
My sisters:
You, and you alone, are responsible for the springtime of your lives. Let her among you who wishes to enjoy her youth laugh; and let her who desires to greet the autumn of her life frown....
This is what I have wished to say and to repeat: the most wasted of life's days is a day in which one does not laugh. Laughter is a thing that joins pleasure and profit together — so why should we be gloomy? Every tragedy that crosses the spring of our lives is but a summer cloud, and it clears away. So, by God, answer me! Are we the first ever to meet with troubles, or the last who will
meet them? Such is life; and the happiest of us is she who can laugh at herself and make her own person an object of her own mockery.
Would that every one of us knew that nothing is more deadly to the soul than its feeling of its weakness, its insignificance, and its small worth — and that nothing makes it feel its insignificance like frowning! Then she would never frown at all, and would open her jaws wide for a ringing laugh.
I have not yet laughed from a pure depth of the heart, but I have manufactured laughter for myself, for I have long tried to persuade myself that I am happy and that I must laugh — not that yellow, bitter laugh, nor that laugh full of mockery of others, of ridicule of them or gloating over them, for such laughs can never see happiness nor even feel it once in a lifetime!.. What laughs, then, are these that I laugh? They are none other than the laughs of jest, of evening company, or of humor, which give the inner muscles of the abdomen a gentle massage that aids the ease of digestion and regulates the secretions of the circulation of the blood, and which give the nervous system that rest and refreshment which guarantee health and soundness.
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In an article of deep thought and sober style, showing a sound and conscious national bent, Mr. Georges Nasri Safir replies to an
article which the cultured woman of letters Miss Rose Ghorayeb published in The Woman's
Voice under the title "Does
Lebanon Have a Mission?" in the September issue.
In answer to this question, Mr. Safir says that Lebanon has no mission to this day, and will have no mission until we raise, upon the ruins of the chaos and flabbiness of our social existence, a conscious, organized, solid social edifice; and that from here, and from here alone, will come our modern point of departure in the arena of civilizations...
The writer denies that there is in Lebanon today anything that may be called a reform movement, for
there will be no reform until we begin by blasting away all the traditional conditions on which the Lebanese still rely in their society... The writer ends by saying:
This is not what we want our mission to be. Nor is it, in relation to the absolute, to the abstract, a mission — even if, in relation to what others accomplish, it is something worth mentioning.
That some of us emigrate to Egypt and spend their talents in the profession of journalism, excelling
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