Mrs. Saniyya Anan says that the first thing to catch her eye on her latest visit to Europe was the general invasion woman has made of every field — above all those we used to believe would remain reserved to men. How many an enormous garage in Paris where you will not find a single man, where every working hand is a woman's hand!.. The Egyptian woman of letters goes on to say: Hardship has turned soft, tender bodies into sinewy forearms on which France relies to rise from her stumble.

The magazine Akher Saa reports that in Stockholm, capital of Sweden — a country famous for its hot baths — there is a bath more famous than all the rest, called the Finnish bath. The bather passes through rooms of varying tempera-ture, some humid and some dry; it is an exhausting bath which no one is permitted to take until his heart has been examined. In this bath there are women bath-attendants assigned to serve the men while they bathe; such an attendant is called there a 'baderska,' and she is mistress of her task to the utmost degree — she can turn the color of the bather's skin to something like the color of blood... Often the men who make for the Finnish bath turn back when they learn that it is women who perform the task of washing and cleansing their bodies, and go off in search of other baths. The Swedes themselves feel no awkwardness or astonishment at this work; on the contrary, they express their astonishment if any foreigner in their presence objects to the presence of women attendants in the men's baths.

The wife of the Prime Minister of Indonesia, asked during her visit to Egypt about conditions in her country, gave the answer of a skillful politician: 'I am

good at talking of nothing but kitchen and household matters'... Mrs. Hatta was accompanying her husband, Dr. Mohammad Hatta,

Prime Minister of Indonesia; she is an intelligent, educated young woman with a good command of English...

The Egyptian writer Samir Souki visited France some months ago, and relates that at one party he asked the wife of Monsieur Georges Bidault, Prime Minister of France, to be his partner; she informed him that she dances with no one at all, because her husband forbids it to her — despite her passion for dancing. The writer then says that most of the beauty of the women of France is artificial, and that the most captivating thing about them is their elegance and their grace...