upon reason; and she did not favor marriage between relatives. After that the members of the society turned to their business...

* Mrs. Zafer Dabaghi gave a family party at which she presented her piano pupils; the audience listened to a company of children playing the melodies of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Bach, and other great world musicians. Those who most delighted the ears at this party were

the child Myrna Nassim Majdalani; Mrs. Dabaghi's children Layla, Khalil, and Samia; and the child Grace Alfred Diab. They played their pieces with a surpassing skill that well deserved the loud applause it won. The Lebanese public appreciates in Mrs. Dabaghi her gifts and her efforts in guiding the little ones toward the understanding of world music and the raising of its standing, after the example of the advanced nations.

* Among the news of the Young Muslim Women: their association gave at its house, in honor of Mr. John Bruins, counselor of the American Legation, and his lady wife, a tea party that gathered a large number of foreigners and of the great Lebanese families.

The association's president, Mrs. Habiba Shaaban, addressed the guests with kind words of welcome, and touched on the most important