his home's structure will fall.

Many of our Lebanese women — physicians, employees, workers, and reformers — are model house-wives: like Dr. Saniyya Habboub, Dr. Jamal Karam, Laure Naqqash, Ibtihaj Kaddoura, Ellen Rihan, and others who practice the liberal professions or engage in public work in the factory, the office, and the institution. If you entered their homes you would find them a sound model of the Lebanese home, and if you looked at their children you would discern in their faces the features of the men of tomorrow — and tomorrow and today are warrant for what I say.

The Answers of Mrs. Ellen Rihan

(1) Cultured Lebanese women are many, yet I feel with all regret that the cultured Lebanese woman does not perform her social-reform mission to the fullest. When I say the Lebanese woman I mean the greater number of Lebanese women, for there is a small number who do their duty, toiling and working in the social field and striving for reform. But it is a small number, and so we see the very same persons unchanged in all the fields of work, while the greater number utterly neglects this side.

(2) The Lebanese woman faces no problems in the literary field; she simply does not venture into it, for want of desire. The libraries are open, the lectures weekly, and the newspapers and magazines wel-come whatever woman contributes; yet the greater number of Lebanese women does not take to it. The great problem, in my view, is the Lebanese woman's neglect of this side. I say again that I mean the Lebanese woman in general, for the small working number deserves the respect and admiration of the Lebanese.

(3) The problems of upbringing in the Lebanese home are the problems that accompany every period of transition, and we are now suffering the problems of this period, for the currents of the old

and the new toss us back and forth. Some families cling to the old, and we see that they lag behind the caravan of progress; others have caught up with the new and stride along it with wide steps. Both cases, I think, are mistaken; but the years are warrant for correct-ing this mistake, for after a while we shall have tried the new ways and adopted from them what suits us, and sifted the old and kept of it what experience has shown fitting; and thus we shall arrive at a middle course to follow, keeping pace with the speed of the age while preserving our Lebanese character.

(4) The participation of the Lebanese woman in public life con-stitutes no danger to her domestic existence, because the Lebanese woman, by her upbringing, regards motherhood and married life as her most exalted duties, and she will never let her participation in public life endanger the domestic existence. I mean the domestic existence as we understand it now. As our grandmothers understood it, much of what we do now is a danger to it — such as freedom, the cinema, the theater, etc. ... But the modern domestic existence will not be affected by the Lebanese woman's participation in public life. I shall not examine its merits and defects, for it is the prevailing order and the one we go by, the order we have adopted from the West, which we keep pace with and must keep pace with. In my opinion the spread of gambling and its entry into the Lebanese home is the greatest danger to the home and to the upbringing of the young, and it is responsible for the greater number of our shortcomings. Let us fight gambling despite the difficulty of that, for its current is sweeping; let us fight it and destroy a mighty, deadly enemy — and let us open the doors of public life before woman, easy in our minds about the domestic existence.

Read the answers of Mesdames Faiza Antiba, Zahiyah Dughan, and Jamal Karam Harfush in the October issue.