human being.

• From a statement made by the notable Mr. Louis Zakkour to a company of ladies of the Lebanese Women's League, who had the honor of visiting him and congrat-ulating him on his return from Colombia after an emigration that lasted seventeen years, he said:

"I am very proud of the activity that woman is displaying in Lebanon, and I personally am fully prepared to support her, take her

by the hand, and encourage her literary and charitable projects."

Mr. Louis Zakkour is one of our brilliant countrymen; in the Mahjar he built a name coupled with magnanimity and nobility, and he has beneficent deeds to his credit in every humane and charitable work. He roused the sympathy of the Lebanese colony in the Mahjar for the Palestine question and gathered vast sums of money. The Woman's Voice thanks him for his zeal and his ardor and wishes

him, and his respected family, a happy stay.

• The Women's Solidarity Association in Lebanon held its general session at the home of its president, Mrs. Laure Georges Tabet, on January 10, 1949, and elected from among its members a reception committee to undertake, in the name of the associations of which the Solidarity Association is composed, the welcoming of the Committee on Women's Affairs delegated by the United Nations. It also elected a committee to study the agenda of the United Nations league committee, jointly with the Arab Women's Union and the other

individual associations that wish to examine and inform themselves on these matters of concern to the Committee on Women's Affairs.

• Mrs. Mona Khoury Nader, wife of Mr. George Nader, of Qalhat, in the Koura, was blessed with a baby girl, their first-born, at Dr. Wahib Nini's hospital in Tripoli. To the new baby, a sweet life;

and to her generous parents, our congratulations on the safe delivery of mother and child.

• Women's circles in Beirut were shaken by the death of the well-known pharmacist, Alice Abouchdid, while still in the prime of life. The lamented lady, a graduate of the American University, was the first young lady

Fidelity and industry.

in Beirut to found a pharmacy by her own efforts, and she watched over its progress for twelve years,

throughout which she was a model of fidelity and industry.

The Woman's Voice, appreciating this loss that befalls the feminine element in this country, offers the family of the departed — and especially her sister, Dr. Edma Abouchdid, professor of obstetrics at the American University — its sincerest condolences, asking

God's mercy for the departed and beautiful patience for her family.

• The gifted artist Mr. Radwan al-Shahhal has been blessed with a new baby, his second son, named "Omar"!

The family of The Woman's Voice offers the artist al-Shahhal, and his lady wife, its congratulations, asking for "Omar" a lifetime filled with blessings and joys in the shade of his parents...

• The "Child Welfare" association continues its activity for the raising of the child's health, mental, and spiritual level, and its president, the refined Mrs. Zahia Salman, still watches over the care of this association, which she founded and nourished with all the knowledge and vitality she possesses.

The latest thing this association has done was the splendid party it held at Cinema Dunia, at which it presented to the public lovely varieties of dance, song, and monologues; among the strongest parts of the program was the turn presented by the artiste Tahia Carioca and the world-famous singer Fadwa Kurban...

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