Mr. Rashid Habib

Mr. Iskandar Issa (men's barber)

He sees the holiday as flowers, and pretty women in new fashions!

seriousness... And when I insisted, he said slowly: It reminds me of Bethlehem... Palestine... the days when we were there.

It seems my errand appealed to the young man, for he took me along to everyone whom neighborliness had made his companion and friend, muttering all the while, "By God, you certainly know how to pass the time..." — a men's barber, the owner of a dyeworks, a nouveautés dealer, and a Polish lady; this one and that, and another, carried along by the general excitement, who came of his own accord, until quite a hubbub could be heard from us in the street. I asked the nouveautés dealer, Mr. George Barbir:

Q — What do you like best to do on the day of the feast?

A — ... To work on the day of the feast — only for the sake of the first sale of the day, not the profit, believe me.

One man declines to answer on account of his multiplying business; another laughs, having found an unexpected occasion for joking; while a third took the matter to heart and lit a cigarette, sending its smoke up high in the hope that it might bring him inspiration!!

remind you?

A — The feast before everything, she answered, once she had grasped the point of the question; then sliding on the snow, and also the prayers, and the holiday trees, and... come with me and I will show you the pictures of our holiday journeys... And she went her way in peace.

I came back to one of those who were with me, Mr. Rashid Habib, to ask him whether the idea of the

Meanwhile a foreign lady, advanced in years, was passing, and my companion stopped her, saying:

Q — Madame Fino Krutska! Of what does the holiday

Mrs. Jalila Msalleh

A servant at the ABC

She holds that the holiday has no place