Fifty states have granted woman her political right in full, and eight states part of her right. Thirteen states have denied her this right, among them the Arab states. Of the states that deny it, three recognize no elections at all: Abyssinia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. As for the Eastern states that have granted her this right, they are Pakistan, India, and Turkey.

The woman of letters Bahiya Faraj Allah al-Kurdi has translated a book from the publications of the Children's Research Bureau in the United States of America, on whose writing the specialists there labored. It examines the child's psychological, mental, moral, and social development, the care of his health, and his protection from accidents and from the diseases common among children.

Frieda Kabs, an unmarried German woman, lived in Bayt al-Umma in Egypt for 37 years. She taught Saad Zaghloul German and English, and when war broke out in 1914 she traveled to her own country to do her duty toward it, and there she endured poverty and privation, while the Mother of the Egyptians sent her every week a box of clothes and sweets... She was present at the death of Saad and of the Mother of the Egyptians, who bequeathed to her a pearl necklace worth 10 thousand pounds — and Frieda presented it to the Egyptian government. Nokrashy appointed her director of the Bayt al-Umma museum...

Isabelle de Valois was married at the age of seven to King Richard II in 1396; the king died in 1400, and so she became a widow at the age of eleven...

Among the strangest sights of Moscow is the sight of a fashion show. Any man or woman may attend it with a ticket costing about half a pound... The ladies attend the show in clothes whose fashion went out long ago. The proceedings are presided over by a lady of grave demeanor, while the mannequin girls are not distinguished by any bewitching beauty like their sisters in Paris and London. A girl steps forward wearing a dress, and the presiding lady announces its official number, so that any lady may buy the pattern and have one cut like it — for only the wealthy women employ dressmakers, and how few they are. Questions rain down on the presiding lady during the show, such as: what kind of fabric is it, and how many meters must be bought to make one like it... The presiding lady may step forward and undo a few of its buttons, whereupon the sleeves fall away and she says it has now become suitable for the evening or the opera; or she undoes other buttons and its upper half falls away, leaving the wearer in a black skirt and a white blouse; or the marvelous dress becomes a tailleur — and so on.

Mrs. Lakshmi, sister of Pandit Nehru, has become India's ambassador in Washington, after having been her ambassador in Moscow...

In the United Nations there is a special section for receiving the suggestions sent in from every corner of the world for

solving international problems and averting wars. The section is headed by a Scottish girl who has full command of English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch, in both reading and writing. She goes through all the letters that come in to the section and answers them herself. Among the curious suggestions before her is a proposal to dry up the Mediterranean Sea and fill it in, thereby making it possible to solve the refugee problem; and a proposal to fit the pyramids of Giza with air-conditioning machinery so that they may be used as shelters from the atomic bomb...

Would That We Had One Like Her

There died in Egypt the famous archaeologist Madame Devonshire. She devoted herself to antiquities for half a century, lecturing on them in Egypt and Europe, organizing tours of the monuments in Egypt, and producing a collection of valuable works in English and French, among them "Rambles in Cairo," "Eighty Mosques," "The Builders of Islamic Cairo," and others. She then published the journey of Sultan Qaytbay and set about translating the history of Ibn Iyas, completing a portion of it — this apart from her studies scattered through the newspapers of Egypt and Europe, until her name became inseparable from the Islamic antiquities of Egypt, so that the old journalist said: "Egypt is a robe of splendor, and Devonshire is the one who knows it." She reached the age of eighty in 1944, and His Majesty Farouk bestowed on her the Order of

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