In Society

Nothing gladdens The Woman's Voice so much as publishing news of women's progress in every field. And here we record, with all pride, a dazzling victory for Makassed College for Girls, which bested the boys' college and carried off the first and second Nassouli prizes from the students of the boys' college!!! And it carried off the prize for elocution in the competition held at the Patriarchal School among twelve of the schools of Lebanon. Well done!

Sincere congratulations to Miss Zahiyah Dughan and her assistants.

...in themselves, that the happy future looks to them and awaits from them a leap aimed true at the goal we aim at and yearn to achieve...

We entered to the sound of the music, which lent the atmosphere a touch of joy, gladness, and contentment, and made us feel that our party today would be like a feast day among feast days, or a festival among festivals...

And now our expectation has come true: every kind of amusement was provided in that spacious courtyard, from delightful contests, to exciting competitions, to the hitting of keen targets... You could see radiant faces and smiling lips... as if Time had let slip the reins of the sweetest things by which souls are gladdened and for which hearts long, of pleasure and enjoyment; or as if it had deposited outside the door everything that muddies and troubles the serenity of life, and everyone set off to divert himself in the various ways available there... And good cheer, as we know it, hastens to the digestion and quickens it, so that souls feel hunger and thirst, whereupon they rush