• 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 antiq-uities 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 under-stand 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 espe-cially 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 parliamen-tary 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.