turn to the school of nurses.

And following its traditional custom, the Lebanese Red Cross held its annual celebration for the distribution of children's layettes to a thousand of the children of soldiers, gendarmes, policemen, and the poor, in the presence of the president and all the working members and the senior men of the army and the gendarmerie. At this gathering Dr. Saniyya Habboub Nakkash spoke, present-ing these gifts with a fine address in which she noted the good rela-tions existing between the army and the other security forces on the one hand and the Red Cross

on the other; her address met with general approval.

• At the opening of the current year, literary and social circles in Beirut were surprised by a happy piece of news: the engagement of the proprietor of al-Diyar, Mr. Hanna Ghosn, to the charming Miss Jacqueline, only daughter of the poet Georges Saydah.

The engagement party was the utmost in simplicity, confined to the nearest relatives.

The Woman's Voice congratulates the two understanding young people, and hopes that their joys will be brought to completion, ending in the settling of the poet Saydah and his esteemed family among us in Lebanon...

• At the annual celebration of "Rawdat al-Fayha" in Tripoli, the opening address was delivered by the president of the association, Mrs. Aliyya Zouk Shawki, who welcomed those present and alluded to the progressive stages the Rawda has traversed in the course of a year thanks to the efforts of its members and of those zealous for the good. Then a motion picture by Mr. Najib Hankash was shown, its subject: "People's Faults," and Mr. Halim al-Roumi nourished the vocal and artistic side.

The poet Georges Saydah recited a poem for this occasion, which the reader will find on page 18 of this issue.

• In the address she delivered in the West Hall of the American University, at the invitation of the Women's League, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit improvised a speech lasting about an hour, interrupted by applause in appreci-ation of the force of her words and of their strong hold upon the souls of her women listeners.

In this address, she urged the Lebanese woman to hold fast to Eastern principles and not to be swept wholly into the Western current.

Here she is, counseling the women of Lebanon to preserve their Eastern character and not to abandon it, saying: "Borrow from the civilization of the West, its science and its enterprise, insofar as they serve you in offering your share to world civilization."

"The Eastern woman, now that she has undone her bonds and been emancipated, must turn in sincerity to solving the tangled social problems under which our homelands labor."

She then appealed to the educated woman not to confine her efforts to the circles near at hand, but to extend her endeavors to the lower class — to the wretched rabble of the people, who stand in urgent need of the sincere woman's guidance and of her compassion.

And she said finally: "Let woman

Mr. Hanna Ghosn and his fiancée, Miss Jacqueline Georges Saydah