the clouds have lifted — at least I can tell the color of your eyes now."

We talked as we killed the time, and I learned from her that she was a wretched, unhappy wife whom life — her own life and her only daughter's — compelled to live with a tyrannical, oppressive hus-band who respected in her neither feeling nor bond. She was then on her way to Canada, to spend with her mother, who lives there, two months only — the whole term of the "visa" her husband would allow! She spoke of her sorrows as though those sorrows were duties fate had laid upon the shoulders of her soul, whose burdens simply had to be borne; and the tear that welled in her eyes seemed a passing gleam with no right to remain there...

As I bade her farewell at the airport of "Montreal" I whispered: "Will you remember this meeting, Irene?" And she answered in her gentle voice: "Always, my dear — at every drone of a plane and every beat of a wing. And if distress should ever wrap itself around your soul, repeat the name 'Irene' and you will find my memory in your hands..." And she went out of the room, her head high, a smile on her lips, her chestnut hair falling loose and dancing on her shoulders...

Irene... may God scatter the clouds of your sorrows and sprinkle your pure soul with a rain of hopes... For you I pray always, and for those like you of lofty, exalted souls: that people may reach into your depths and meet them with kindness and care, even as you fill people's hearts with a love that springs from your own pure hearts...

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Mercy dwells in the hearts of many men and many women; we have only to open our hearts to those hearts, and we shall meet!

Do our souls or our hearts, I

wonder, look at people's feelings as our eyes look at their finery and their clothes — with the same sharpness and attention? In these feelings, madam, you will find what

you may take and what you may give and offer! Let us give in order to receive — and let there be no taking without giving!

Pond's Cream

Beauty like the flowers of spring!...

The loveliest charmers in the world use, every evening and morning, the two kinds of:

Pond's Cream

And here is the way to use them:

Every evening: apply a quantity of Pond's "Cold" Cream to your skin; it is warranted to penetrate the pores, cleanse your face of dust and the traces of powder, and open the pores to breathe in full freedom.

Every morning: apply a light touch of Pond's Vanishing under your powder; it is warranted to protect your skin from the glare of the sun or the harsh gusts of the wind...

Two sisters never parted:

Pond's Cream "C" and "V"

POND'S

Agents and depot:

Baroudi Bros. & Co. – Telephone 53/59 – Beirut