to saving something out of his spending on the cinema and other amusements to relieve children whom God created just as He created him, but who were born in regions far from civilization. Moreover, the pupils of the adopting schools will arrange excursions to visit the kindergarten that is their kindergarten; they will perform again in the villages the literary plays which no one does so well as the young folk of Beirut, and will hold their delightful athletic festivals, spreading the spirit of sport through the villages and scattering some merriment and entertainment among the mountain people, who never recall the good things of the favored villages except with rancor, envy, and burning of heart.

Likewise the schoolgirls can knit wool for the children of their kindergarten; and having seen, in a single school, what was gathered in clothing for the refugees, I may be allowed to predict that every girl student in the schools of Beirut will adopt a child in the farmsteads of the mountain.

There is a second benefit as well: acquainting the young men and women with new mountain regions, drawing them out to take the air and to summer in simple, modest villages where people spend half or a third of what they spend in the aristocratic villages. And finally... leading them to touch the misery of the farmsteads, to witness the deprivation endured by the children of the high barrens, and to discover talents that are so often buried in the folds of the valleys.

This is what I wished to bring to your attention, Mr. Prime Minister; and I am full of hope and expectation that you will adopt the project of the child and make it a symbol of your faith in the Lebanese woman and in the ability of the women of Lebanon to share in the service of this homeland. Peace be upon you, and the mercy of God.