The Engagement of Miss Norma Nasta

* Among the happy news from Mexico is that our friend Mr. Ramez Shehadeh, one of the nationalist young men well known in various circles, has concluded his engagement to the beautiful Miss Norma Nasta, daughter of Mr. Khalil Nasta and Mrs. Layla Jbeili Nasta, both originally of Homs in Syria.

Miss Norma was born in Mexico, the youngest of five children, and grew up in a house known in the Mahjar for its nobility and open-handed generosity. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, speaks colloquial Arabic well, and is now applying herself to the study of literary Arabic and of Italian. She has a special passion for poetry and for music, especially the classical kind and opera. Last summer Miss Norma, in the company of her mother, made a visit to Lebanon and Syria that lasted five months. She returned from her mother country with its memory ever on her lips, expressing her admiration for its beauty, and declaring that she looks forward with longing to making her home there in the future.

To the happy betrothed pair, then, our most sincere congratulations — and may the rejoicing be brought to fullness.