Among our rising young ladies today are the doctor, the lawyer, the licensed midwife, the teacher, and others. Here the correspondent of "The Woman's Voice" puts her question to a group of these young ladies: "Why did you choose your profession?"

1 — The first to answer this question was Miss Nicole Rebeiz, a lawyer who practices her profession. She says:

"I do not know why I chose the profession of law, and never before

today had I put this question to myself; yet when I began studying law, it never for an hour crossed my mind that one day I would put on the "robe"!

Ever since my childhood I preferred the science of law to the science of medicine and the like among the natural sciences, and perhaps the true motives for this were my inclination, at bottom, toward the spiritual and experimental sciences and arts, more than toward the material natural sciences...

The period of study came to an end and I began to practice law. I had believed that my being a young lady would hamper my first steps, but the truth proved the opposite: my colleagues received me with open arms, while the girls showed me such kindness and patience as astonished me and doubled my energy and my desire for a profession I had imagined hard to attain — and I found it

within reach of every girl inclined toward it."

2 — Miss Attaf Hamadeh, a teacher at the school of Miss Rida Jureidini, says in answer to this question:

"The day I left school, I felt that I had a duty toward my homeland and my brethren, and I chose teaching above all else because it is among the most honorable professions a girl can take up, especially in our country, where the field of work is narrow before woman.

Yes, the profession of teaching is among the most difficult and most

delicate of professions, for the broad wisdom it demands and the precise knowledge of the pupil's psychology and his particular inclinations; but the reward is great — so great that it makes the educator forget the troubles and hardships he has met on the way to preparing a sound generation that will serve its homeland and human society without distinction. The teacher, by enlightening the mind, refining the soul, and guiding the young onto the straight path, closes dark and fearsome prisons. It is he who carries the torch

of learning high and guards it against the assaults of the days.

As for the true happiness — nay, the greatest worldly rapture — that every educator feels, it is the sight of the processions of his pupils as stalwart men in the battleground of life, struggling with enlightened minds and broad breasts — struggling for the sake of sacred right.

3 — Dr. Asia Itani is a rising physician, specialized in pediatrics, and she is now on her way to France for further specialization. Here is her answer to the question of "The Woman's Voice":

From my earliest years, under the sway of my tender feelings, I would suffer for a patient who suffered — especially if he called for a doctor and none could be found — and I would wish that God, Mighty and Exalted, would bring forth from me that helping or assisting doctor, so that I might extend to that patient my aid and my skill.