In Society

★ On March 10, 1951, at the St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Beirut, the wedding was celebrated of Wadih Bey al-Qusous to the refined Miss Layla Ghantous. The crowning ceremony was performed by the two venerable prelates, Metropolitan Elia Salibi and Metropolitan Elia Karam, with their clerical retinue. The celebration was attended by the Honorable Minister Plenipotentiary of Jordan in Beirut, Jamal Bey Tuqan, together with the men of the legation and a great number of displaced Palestinians. After the crowning, boxes of sweets were distributed among those assembled.

At nine in the evening the groom's father, His Excellency Dr. Hanna Pasha al-Qusous, gave a reception in the hall of the Grand Hotel (Prince) overlooking the sea, where the guests made their way to a sumptuous buffet while listening to the jazz band, and the soirée went on until a late hour of the night.

★ Following the reply which the government presented to the women of Lebanon, in which it proposed granting them the right to vote in the municipal elections but not in the general elections, the leaders of the women's renaissance in Tripoli and the presidents of its associations met and submitted a memorandum of protest to the Honorable Governor of the North.

* At the end of last month the hand of death carried off a woman whose fame filled the horizons of Lebanon and beyond Lebanon — the late Nazira Jumblatt, mother of Mr. Kamal Jumblatt, Deputy for the Mountain and president of the Progressive Socialist Party.

Mrs. Nazira contended with death for a week or somewhat more. Delegations streamed to the Saint Charles Hospital, where the departed breathed her last, and a solemn national funeral was held for her, in which the country took part from one end to the other.

To Mr. Jumblatt, heir to the departed lady's forefathers and to her standing in the country; to her daughter, the wife of Emir Hassan al-Atrash; and to all the honored Jumblatt family, this magazine offers its warmest condolences.

* Last month Mrs. Nazira al-Sulh, mother of His Excellency Riad Bey al-Sulh, the former Prime Minister, passed to the abode of eternity. She died in a righteous old age, having been throughout her life the patriotic example to be followed. The papers have recalled that in 1943, when the delegations came to console her over her son, whom the French had arrested, she said with pride: I bore my son for nothing but such a struggle as this.

Her death weighed heavily upon the sons of the country, who hastened to mourn her and to offer the most sincere expressions of condolence to His Excellency the Prime Minister, asking mercy for her and solace for her kin.

* The Marquis de Freige died last month, after passing a life filled with charity and good works that shall not be forgotten.

The Woman's Voice sends its most sincere condolences to the family of the departed, and especially to his wife, the Marquise de Freige, president of the Lebanese Red Cross, who was to her late husband the best of partners: together they were the two wings that soar aloft — and soar well.