Woman in the World

• Emir Kiyun has invented an apparatus for roasting coffee without stirring it: the lady puts the coffee into it and presses a button, and after a minute she obtains roasted coffee.

• Excavators of Egyptian antiquities have found toilet articles, powders, and perfumes beyond counting, and a kohl pot made of pure rock crystal with its applicator of ornamented ivory... As for the powder boxes and the bottles, they were all of pure, translucent marble; and in one of the tombs was found the mummy of an aristocratic lady, and before her a small statue of a boy sitting and holding a box resembling today's toilet box, and on the boy's lips a smile that greeted the lady every time she stretched out her hand toward the box.

• The Brazilian Minister in Egypt said that before the last war Brazil was accustomed to sending its ladies into its diplomatic representation abroad, and that there was a large number of them occupying posts as consuls, secretaries, and the like...

• The Japanese celebrate a festival which they call the festival of 7, 5, and 3 — that is, the festival of children of those ages — and it is one of their most important festivals... On this day fathers and mothers set out early, taking their children of these ages, boys and girls, to the temples, and there they present offerings to their gods and pray to them to bless the lives of these children of theirs, to preserve their bodies and souls from diseases and from the eyes of the envious, and to grant them strength, beauty, and happiness... The families of those children compete with one another, each family exercising its ingenuity in adorning its children: dressing them in the most splendid clothes, cutting their hair, and decking them with pearls, jewels, and every kind of ornament. The rivalry slackened during the war and after it, then returned in these last two years.

• Poor Libya... She does not understand the philosophy of woman, nor acknowledge her existence, nor feel the beatings of the weary heart, nor weep the bitterness of desertion and deprivation!

She lives alone, without a heart, without a soul, without love.
She lives by herself, to burn by herself, every day and every night, amid the harsh sands of the desert.

As for how man and woman meet, and how he and she come to an understanding, and how he and she marry — all of that is a story...

The story of the man who was taught that woman is nothing, and that man is everything...

The women of Libya, and especially the Bedouin among them, are among the most beautiful women in the world... wide black eyes like the eyes of the oryx, long black hair like a piece of the night, a delicate mouth and small teeth like pearls, and a slender waist like the waist of a gazelle.

Nature has endowed her with beauty, health, and youth...!!

• The Labour Party in England has nominated Miss Dudoliz in the coming parliamentary elections.

Miss Dudoliz is 29 years of age, a comely girl, and during the world war she was a children's nurse.

• At last the world-famous actress Shirley Temple has insisted on bringing suit against her husband, John Agar, seeking a divorce for his mental cruelty toward her. Shirley says that her husband is addicted to drink.

Shirley's divorce is raising a stir among American girls, for she still stands for innocence, purity, devotion, and obedience. The daughters of America shed tears when word came to them that Shirley was insisting on her divorce, and they wrote to her, saying: In our eyes you stand for the perfect wife and the tender mother, so do not shatter our hopes... Do not divorce, Shirley.

But Shirley is set on the divorce...

• At the American University in Cairo a discussion in the form of a symposium was held, in which three men and a lady spoke on parliamentary life in Egypt and what it ought to be.

As for the lady, she was the woman of letters Amina al-Said; she seized the opportunity and raised the subject of woman's political rights, and she called the parliamentary system existing in Egypt a despotic system so long as the Egyptian woman is not represented in it. In her address she called for the necessity of representation by groups, so that the engineers, for example, would have someone to represent them in Parliament and defend their rights, and the lawyers someone to represent them, and the doctors, and so on... so that parliamentary representation in Egypt might come out sound.

• The Sunday Pictorial said that the British public has noticed that Princess Elizabeth, the heiress to the throne, acquired a marvelous femininity in the past year, and that she was suddenly transformed from a boyish girl into a lady of complete femininity and of great beauty.

The paper believes that the secret of this transformation is that the Princess has become a wife and a mother... and that marriage is the half of beauty.

And the paper advises girls to hasten to marry, so that they may become beautiful...

• Princess Margaret has been the talk of the American papers for a long while now.

These papers never cease doing much harm to the reputation of the merry Princess with the rumors they serve up to their readers.

Among these rumors is what Magazine Digest says: "The Princess is trying to influence His Majesty her father and Her Majesty her mother to permit her to travel to America...

And it is said that the man who occupies the first place in her heart lives somewhere between Brooklyn and Beverly Hills..." — meaning the comedian Danny Kaye.

Another magazine wrote: "It happened at one of the parties given by the royal family at Buckingham Palace that His Majesty the King noticed that Princess Margaret had gone too far in her drinking, and he asked her to stop; but she refused, and said that if he insisted on his demand she would not take luncheon with him... and she had her way."

And the latest thing these American papers have written is that "His Majesty King George saw the Princess at one of the dinner parties wearing an evening gown open at the breast in an unusual manner... and he said to his daughter: It appears that you hurried in putting on your clothes and forgot the upper part of your gown... The Princess pretended not to have heard the remark, but the King said to her:

You may go back to your room and fetch the rest of the gown..."

And the English papers are angry at this campaign of defamation which the papers of America are letting loose...