carrying a camera, photographing the passers-by; then I saw her in the big offices, working side by side with the man — whose appearance alongside her I came to regard as one of the wonders of London.

As for social life, it is utterly nonexistent among English women: you see no visits or receptions among them, and if one of them wishes to meet her friend, it is in some public place or in one of the restaurants... Everyone in London minds his own business; no one seeks to know another, or to ask after him, or to concern himself with him.

I met some of the women who work, and asked them about their wages, how they spend them, and where they pass their leisure hours. One of them, who works as a maid in a hotel, answered me:

I draw each week the equivalent of thirty Lebanese lira, most of which I spend on buying clothes, and some of it on amusements. As for my free time, I pass it in the company of a friend, either at the cinema, or at a theater, or in a public park, or looking at the show-windows of the great shops that adorn London at night.

A woman works forty-eight hours a week, and she works to help her husband bear the responsibilities of life, so that the two live together an independent, con-tented life. When the English girl reaches eighteen years of age she begins to work, and can then live a life independent of her parents, learning thereby self-reliance, and how to face life with a leaping spirit and a soul that strives toward the heights.

And if you go out to stroll through the streets of London at night, you feel as though you were in broad daylight, for the electric lamps light every place... The shop-fronts are hidden by no screen from people's eyes — they are closed with glass alone, lit by lights from within... The restaurants are full of people... Here are the streets before you, thronged with passers-by,

everyone wanting to enjoy the world of London and to gaze at its bewitching lights. And all this goes on in an atmosphere ruled by tranquility, over which quiet and order preside. No motor horns, no children screaming, no collisions, no blaring radios.

Truly London is the land of won-ders; one who lives in Lebanon and then sees these phenomena cannot imagine that they are tangible facts. For twenty days I was away from Lebanon, and I felt my need of its air, its scenery, its sky, and its soil... But

I found compensation for all this in that stillness and that quiet which preside over London... How I wish I might one day see all this transported to Beirut, so that I might feel once more that I am a human being living according to a human being's requirements... so that my soul might be at ease, and the mind of my kinsman be at rest — he who so often drew my attention to all that went on around me. Twenty days have passed — would that this beautiful experience might come back to me!..

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Look at my teeth — I use only the new Colgate toothpaste

This new paste has new merits, chief among them:

1. Put a small quantity on the brush and it multiplies three hundred times

2. It kills the germs in the mouth and between the teeth within 30 seconds

3. It prevents fermentation, prevents decay and caries, and makes the teeth white as pearls

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