in the world of fashion, serve it also by the authentic Lebanese qualities they have preserved — uprightness and honor, generos-ity and hospitality, gentleness of character and mildness — qualities that draw to them, and to Lebanon, everyone who comes to know them. They have likewise preserved their intense attachment to the homeland, their pride in it, their jealousy for it, and their sympathy for its projects, so that the Lebanese who visits them in their beautiful home in the suburbs of New York feels that he grows more Lebanese by his contact with them.

In coming articles I shall take up some of the other Lebanese personalities who have distinguished themselves in a particular art and attained a lofty position in it.