500,000 Lebanese lira. And were we to turn aside to Sidon, we should find on a spot of its beautiful shore the "Poor Man's Kindergarten," sustained by the donations of the kindergarten's friends and by a share allotted to it from the National Lottery. She then recalled the prodigious efforts of the women social specialists, in the Bekaa and Zahle and Tripoli and Baabda, over and above the capital, bringing out their merit of energy and patience in looking into the

children's cases and complaints; some of them have observed the practice of this social art in America and France, besides what they have practiced at the School of Social Training in Beirut.

She closed her valuable talk with praise for the ample, modern, broad, and comprehensive works — governmental and direct — which sister Egypt is carrying out in this field. Shall Lebanon, then, lag behind Egypt in this beautiful human duty?

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"The Woman of Today Face to Face with Life"
Thursday, January 6
Mr. René Habachi
"The Anxiety of the New World"
Monday, January 10
Mr. Said Akl
"Lebanon in Its Creative Powers"
Monday, January 17
Mr. Omar Abu Risha
"The Extent of Political Consciousness in the Arab World"
Thursday, January 20
"A Poetry Evening"
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"The Personalist Experiment and the Extent of Its Application in Lebanon"
Monday, January 31
Mr. Bahij Osman
"On the External Constituents of Literature"
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