to realize this great dream...

...another on this subject, pointing to the great silent struggle being carried on by Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, president of the Lebanese Women's League... and saluting at the same time the Lebanese emigrant communities, above all

the community of Venezuela, which had the greatest hand in raising this building, having sent thirty thousand dollars for this noble purpose.

And after Mrs. Tabet finishes, His Excellency Ustad Habib Abi Shahla steps forward and delivers a speech in which he salutes the Lebanese Women's League and its president...

And while refreshments and sweets were being passed among those present, a beloved, fragrant bouquet of children was drawing into the square, on a colored ribbon, the foundation stone that will be the first stone of the building to come...

And then His Excellency the President of the country, in a voice full of love and tenderness, salutes in his turn these efforts on behalf of the Lebanese child, and declares his sympathy, and the government's sympathy, for this noble project...

And it was a gracious ges-ture when His Excellency the President approached the noble lady Heneni Tarcha and pinned upon her breast the gilded medal in appreciation of her distin-guished services.

Mrs. Tarcha answers the President's kindness with a gracious and eloquent word. The women of the League regretted the absence of Mrs. Faiza al-Solh, wife of His Excellency the Prime Minister, who has surrounded this project with her well-known ardor

Then Mrs. Majdalani presents the energetic lady Ellen Rihan, wife of Dr. Habib Rihan, who delivers in English a measured speech on the two great works the League has accomplished: "The Woman's Voice" and the kindergarten.

And after Mrs. Tabet finishes, His Excellency Ustad Habib Abi Shahla steps forward and delivers

And Mrs. Laure Tabet, wife of His Excellency Georges Tabet, rises and delivers, in elegant French, a speech