able efforts exerted to this end by the members of the committee of the Islamic Orphanage.

* On the occasion of Mothers' Day, Sunday the second of May, Radio Lebanon presented special programs in which a number of men and women of letters took part, among them Mrs. Asma Tubi, Zahia Salman, and Edvick Shayboub. Their talks dwelt on defining the meaning of Mothers' Day, urging the rising generation to give it its due of attention, and honoring motherhood on this day of every year.

Health Guidance Week for Mothers is a new departure in the field of social service, carried out from June 1 to 6 by the Lebanese Child-Welfare Society, headed by Mrs. Zahia Salman, in the district of Musaytbeh, Burj Abi Haidar, and Zarif; assisted by Mr. Rashad al-Arees, the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the two societies, the Raising of the Fallen and the Relief of the Poor, which work in these quarters. Mrs. Nazik al-Abid Bayhum has graciously offered the center of the Society for Securing Work for the Refugees of Palestine, which she heads, to serve as a center for showing the guidance films presented by the American Information Service, together with the animated drawings and the models used in guiding mothers in a practical, easy, and feasible way. The students of the American College for Girls, under the supervision of Miss Suad Wakim, will undertake the display of these models and the talks, together with the section of the Public Health Department at the American University of Beirut headed by Dr. Zekin Shakhashiri.

The second part of the program of this week is the visiting of homes and quarters in order to become acquainted with the condition of their inhabitants and to study the possibilities of assisting them on

the part of the societies and the Ministry of Social Affairs.

Gifts of clothing, milk, and soap, donated by the shops of Jabr Brothers, "Pepsi-Cola" and "Coca-Cola," Mizan Soap, and others, will be distributed to the children. Mrs. Zahia Salman has sent out circulars setting forth the work of this week and inviting mothers to take part in it.

The Child-Welfare Society intends, with the help of the workers in the field of social service, to establish such a center for every quarter.

I am now on a short tour of the fine-arts exhibitions at the Makassed College for Girls, moving with the directress of the institute, Miss Zahiyah Dughan, through three halls, in each of which a beautiful art appears to me, standing on its own.

The first thing we see is the girls of the home-economics section in their spotless white dress, each doing her share of the work in preparing fine foods of every kind by modern artistic methods; and there is the directress of the section, Miss Samia Zaki, Egypt's delegate, showing you her organized programs in the field of home economics, for training the Makassed girls in all the arts of household management — not cooking only, but sewing, ironing, washing, and the cleaning of metal and wooden utensils.

And in the drawing exhibition we find ourselves listening to the artist Mrs. Zaynab Muhammad Ali, Egypt's delegate, telling her pupils the story of the raw material, that they may bring it forth as living, speaking pictures on the boards prepared for drawing. There you can touch the modern artistic methods with your own hand.

Mrs. Zaynab Muhammad Ali is making of the Makassed girls budding artists who appreciate the effect this beautiful art has upon souls. I took leave of Mrs. Zaynab with my eyes still clinging to the beautiful pictures hanging on the walls of the drawing hall, from the brush of the Makassed pupils.

Then Miss Dughan led me toward the upper floor of the school: "To the factory of the needle, that little instrument which neither you nor I can do without." We entered the room of Mrs. Edith, who received us with cheerfulness and proceeded to stand with me before each piece of the precious handwork, telling me the manner of its making, while I listened and gazed at the heights to which Mrs. Edith's needle has attained — masterpieces of art displayed in coverlets for beds and tables, table napkins, embroidered children's clothes, curtains that are veritable treasures, and the articles of adornment a girl needs for her dress and her elegance.

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