Mrs. Salma Fraiha with her eldest daughter and her assistant, Mona

A side view of Villa Fraiha

The family atmosphere at Villa Fraiha

gives directions and orders!! She is always ready to meet every request, and apologizes with the greatest courtesy if a request proves scarce and impossible...

satisfaction with everything....

I spoke with Mrs. Hilda Jureidini and admired the good spirit with which she is adorned. She declared to me that the success of hotels goes back, in large part, to the guests' satisfaction with the food and the cleanliness, and to the securing of working hands. She explained to me, with a touch of pride, that the work in the hotel is divided among the members of the family, each according to his capacity. When I asked her how this was done, she answered: "I am responsible, apart from the general management, for the terwiqa (or breakfast), which I see to alone, while the girls are busy with the cleaning and tidying. My younger sister 'Gisèle' helps me in the work, my mother is responsible for the washing and ironing, and my father serves at table! Yes — he does not disdain even to wait on the guests, and he has accustomed us from childhood to be like him; and this gesture has pleased all our guests..."

There is one phenomenon that calls for admiration: Mrs. Hilda, in addition to her constant work and her great responsibility, is the mother of two little children, whose claims upon her she fulfills in full...

As for the second hotel in Broummana that earned my admiration for its management, it is Villa Fraiha. Here the atmosphere is purely that of a family; everyone forms one group bound together by intimacy, and the credit for this goes, of course, to the good management with which the work of the hotel is carried out — and the inquirer soon realizes that the source of this success is the wife of the hotel's owner, Mrs. Salma Fraiha, for she is perpetual motion from morning till evening. She is the first to rise early in the morning, and the last to take to her bed at night! And in her veins there is health enough to carry her on her feet the whole day long!!

Mrs. Fraiha is the mainspring of all movement and the thinking head of the hotel; nothing is done without her knowledge. And it is a lovely thing to watch her giving directions — even with her eyes and her eyebrows she

Miss Mona Fraiha busy arranging the flowers in the salon