see the danger of thinness increas-ing. Leading statisticians examined hundreds of girls and mothers, and then concluded that more than half the girls weighed less than they should, and that their bodies were in need of iodine, calcium, and vitamins; as for the mothers, four out of every five suffer from malnu-trition, because more than half of them eat no fresh vegetables and drink no milk at all... The advice of the men of science was this: do not boil food overmuch, and do not throw away its water; do not eat canned foods; chew your food well; take it at its appointed hours. And the men of science affirm that the lack of certain minerals and vita-mins in a woman's food makes her complexion dull in color, her body weak, and her temperament more inclined to pessimism, sadness, and sharpness of nerves.

This month there shone the name of the well-known French journalist Mrs. Vibard. A wish she had gone on dreaming of for thirty years has come true — the wish being a visit to Egypt, or a pilgrim-age, as she says, to the tomb of the national leader Mohammad Farid, who died thirty years ago. Mrs. Vibard lived in Egypt for a stretch of time, and the people there knew her by the name of Aziza Ruston. She stood by Egypt in its cause with all the strength she possessed, and she loved it from the day she loved its dutiful son Mohammad Farid, becoming, like him, a piece of Egypt's history. In this month, in which Egypt held the festivals of liberation and journalists came to her from the corners of the world, the delegation of France arrived, made up of 28 journalists, at their head Mrs. Vibard, who had done the greater part of the arranging of this journey. She visited the grave of the leader she had loved, and shed a tear there; then she said: The first of the landmarks of modern Egypt that I saw was the airplane stewardess. When I

asked her about her nationality and learned that she was Egyptian and Muslim, I wrote in my diary: "Today I saw an immense develop-ment in the Egyptian woman since the age of the harem."

And of Iraq, Mrs. Barbara Castle, member of the British Parliament and one of the six members who visited the Middle East a few days ago, wrote in the News Chronicle, saying: The Iraqi woman I met can match most Englishwomen in her ability and her training. And Mrs. Castle adds: The fact is that wherever I went in the Middle East I met women like the Iraqi woman — cultivated and active in various [...]

One woman scientist has invented an apparatus for heating the whole house. The apparatus is fixed in the walls of the house on the inside, with a part of it outside, so that it remains exposed to the sun, absorbing its heat and storing it; then, if the temperature drops because of the coldness of the weather, the apparatus distributes what it has stored through the inside of the house, and it stays warm as it was. And a man has devised a transparent, colorless solution: if the walls of the lower part of a house are painted with it, their pores drink it in, and there forms upon them a thin coating, invisible to the eye, which stops the effect of dampness in the walls for a period of four or five years.