hall for the men and another for the women, then dining rooms and a church for worship. We have forty-five aged men and women, served by eight nurses and attended by two physicians — the one a native and the other the son of a Lebanese from Jdeidet Marjeyoun — and at need we call in others. We attend to all their needs to the end of their lives, and at the death of one of them we bury him with all respect and according to the law of this generous country.

In the year 1922 the law of the ruler Getúlio Vargas was issued, requiring that charita-ble associations

and athletic and literary clubs be registered, on pain of losing their rights. So we set about registering it, and we entrusted the principal offices to our fine daughters born in this country, who bore the responsibility most excellently. The chair of the presidency was entrusted to Mrs. Olga Khamasiya

Rizkallah, who was re-elected three successive times, together with the other officers whose names we shall mention.

On the society's silver jubilee

the associations and clubs of São Paulo held a party in our honor under the patronage of the Homsi Ladies' Society, owner of the Syrian sanatorium. As for our pearl jubilee, that is, the fortieth year, we resolved to celebrate it in the home and to decorate

Freedom and equality between the sexes are among the things necessary for the advancement of mankind; and woman, as a human being, is not beneath man, and therefore she must share these rights with him.

The success of society depends upon the extent of cooperation between men and women, so as to bring out their full personalities and to fulfill their respon-sibilities toward themselves and toward one another. Therefore woman has an important part in the build-ing of a moral, free, and sound society — and she cannot carry out this task of hers in the fullest manner unless she herself is a free and responsible member.