1 — Our first visit was to the "Emira Basma Charitable Home," a house of modern furnishing bespeaking taste and effort, its rooms allotted to girls great and small — here a class for reading and arithmetic, here a class for sewing and for reviving the local handicrafts, there a class for weaving woolen and cotton cloth, and this a kindergarten... It was easy to see that the women in charge of this project are young women brimming with energy and drive, under the leadership of Mrs. Maliha Labaidi Habab. And it was not long before I had proof of it, when I heard them speak with such fire of what they had accomplished in this short span, and of their hopes for the future of this great constructive project. And in gratitude they dwelt long on Queen Zein's zeal for their project and her effective support of them...
2 — We next visited the Red Crescent center, where two classes hold sixty girls: the first for teaching reading and arithmetic, the second for teaching them sewing and for securing an honorable trade to ward off from a girl the ravages of want... I admired the personality of the president of the Red Crescent, the wife of His Excellency the Prime Minister Ibrahim Pasha Hashem, and the energetic secretary, Mrs. Hind Saba Sabbagh — the two of them perpetual motion, working
with devotion and a cooperation worthy of praise.
3 — We passed on afterward to the maternity hospital founded during the events of Palestine by the Jordanian Women's Union under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Misbah. I made the acquaintance of the head of the hospital, Miss Nabiha al-Wer — the very model of the energetic woman created for this work and no other. She specialized in England, and her constant labor now is to enlarge the hospital and bring it abreast of the finest hospitals of its kind. What struck me, despite the slenderness of the material means, was the cleanliness and the simplicity of taste — those two qualities we so sorely lack in our public and private life.
4 — Finally we climbed one of the
mountains that surround Amman and stood on a beautiful spot overlooking the capital, where the foundation is now being laid for a splendid building — another maternity hospital. A purely women's project, whose details we shall hear when it opens, and that will be soon, God willing... And it pleased me to listen to words of burning enthusiasm for the future of this hospital, pouring from the most enthusiastic of them all, the president of the Red Crescent, Mrs. "Umm Hani."
We shall bring our gracious readers, in coming issues, a detailed account of these women's organizations, in view of the promises our delegates in Amman have taken upon themselves — for we believe in the proverb that says:
"A free man's promise is a debt."
Silvikrin
Do not dare to ignore ailing hair!
• Dry hair, hair that has lost its luster through dandruff, thinning hair, hair that splits, hair that falls out — these are warnings of baldness before its time. Treat these conditions by massaging the scalp with "Silvikrin," which contains Tryptophane, Tyrosine, and Cystine — in truth, all the organic elements of which hair is made, and which the hair needs if it is to grow sound and full of vitality.
• Use purifying "Silvikrin" in cases of heavy dandruff and thinning hair. Use "Silvikrin Hair Tonic," the hair strengthener, for daily grooming. And use "Silvikrin Lotion" with oil for dry hair.
Silvikrin — the natural food of the hair
Numota
Numota moth-proofed wool