• The gracious emigrant Mrs. Salwa Mahfouz, wife of the great compatriot Mr. Naseeb Mahfouz, has returned to Lebanon after an absence of 19 years in São Paulo, Brazil.
Mrs. Mahfouz is accompanied by her daughter, Miss Samia; the two will spend the summer months among family and friends, and in moving about among the beautiful Lebanese mountains. Mrs. Mahfouz was astonished at the extent of progress in the stages of life, especially on the side of building.
This gracious Lebanese lady occupies in São Paulo a high social standing in Lebanese and Brazilian circles, and she is among the most active of ladies in the social and charitable fields.
Mrs. Mahfouz presides over the "League of Orthodox Ladies," Syrian and Lebanese, which, young as it is, expends wide efforts in the cause of cultural and charitable projects. The most important thing this association has done is to send to the distressed of Palestine residing in Syria and Lebanon one thousand (1,000) sacks of sugar, one thousand (1,000) sacks of rice, 24 cases of medicines, and four tons of clothing.
So The Woman's Voice, taking pride in this great work, coming as it does from our gracious ladies across the seas, welcomes the president of this association and her daughter, wishing her a pleasant stay in the homeland's hills.
• The energetic Mrs. Afifi Majdalani has returned to Lebanon after spending several months in Egypt, where she was the object of warm welcome and honor. She is now resuming her activity as president of the administrative committee of the Lebanese Women's League. So The Woman's Voice extends to Mrs. Majdalani the warmest of welcomes.
• At the end of last month Lebanon was visited by Dona Eleonora Mendes de Barros, the First Lady of Brazil, wife of the governor of the state of São Paulo, the second man of the country.
Mrs. de Barros made her visit to Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan in her personal, not her official, capacity, accompanied by her daughter and her son-in-law.
The gracious visitor and her party met a warm welcome from those Lebanese who had been in Brazil — special mention going to Mrs. Salwa Mahfouz, the gracious Lebanese emigrant whose arrival from São Paulo we have already reported: she gave in her honor a splendid dinner party which brought together a distinguished elite of Lebanese, and invited her also to visit the Cedars and Baalbek, where the qaimaqam went to great lengths in welcoming her — this at the prompting of the government, which hastened, as soon as the news reached it, to honor this great personage: for the friendship she bears the Lebanese emigrants in São Paulo, and for the encouragement with which she strengthens their charitable projects there.
And Mrs. de Barros returned to her country carrying within her a great deal of admiration and appreciation for the natural beauty of Lebanon... and for its people.
Physical training occupies the loftiest place in the wide-ranging programs of the College for Girls; it is the first aim the College pursues in refining the girls' spirits and exercising their bodies. That is why one finds it always concerned with holding matches and sports festivals
on its own field, in support of that beautiful art which has never ceased to be an honest proof of the degree of progress of the modern Lebanese renaissance. We felt this at the party — or rather the festival — which the College held yesterday: the games, the exercises, and the rhythmic dances were distinctive in their forms and figures, inviting admiration for their inventiveness and their coordination, and for the harmony of the gay costumes, which represented the Gypsy, the Hungarian, and the Japanese dances, and other things besides, sprung from the taste of the schoolmistresses who trained this beautiful display. And here are some photographic samples.