In Society

• It has been the custom of the Young Muslim Women's Association, headed by Mrs. Habiba Shaaban Yakan, to invite the friends of the association, from time to time, to get-acquainted gatherings at the club's premises, in order to acquaint public opinion with the notable results this cultural and social institution has achieved in its various fields.

On Wednesday, February 16, it invited to a tea party His Excellency the Minister of Education, Mr. Maurice Zouein, together with a large company of personalities, and placed in the guests' hands detailed statements of the steady and palpable progress the association had recorded in its last year, which called forth appreciation and thanks.

It appeared that the number of women attending the club this year reached 275 — of whom 68 for sewing, 25 for embroidery, 11 for typewriting, and 7 for the study of English.

The field of social activity includes the literary circle, a scouting branch, and a small library.

The Woman's Voice congratulates its sisters, the president and members of the Young Muslim Women, on these praiseworthy results, and wishes them lasting zeal and health, that they may continue to render their most useful services to growing girls.

• We call the attention of our kind readers to the charity bazaar to be held by a group of women office employees and workers in the liberal professions, on March 19 at Post Hall at the American University of Beirut.

Many surprises await you there, and curious things it would never occur to you to find there!! And most important of all: a quarter of this charity bazaar will be set aside to be spent on poor girls who lack sufficient food, at the feeding camp of the Young Women's Christian Association at Dhour el-Choueir...

So come along to the charity bazaar on March 19, and don't be late...

• It seems that winter has not been a long-staying guest this year: it looked in upon us in Lebanon and then fled before the face of bright, radiant spring!! And with spring the dressmakers have grown busy hunting out its new fashions, the new trend and the new lines. To this end Mr. Mansur Munsif, proprietor of the "Mun Hayim" house of dressmaking and fashion, traveled to Paris at the beginning of this month to explore the latest trends and to return, as March draws to its close, laden with the splendid and the captivating...

• On January 28 there looked out upon the world the little bud "Rima," daughter of Dr. Nihad Jureidini and his wife, Mrs. Yvette — and the joy over her was great, contrary to the reception a "girl" usually meets in Eastern homes. And perhaps the one who rejoiced most over the sweet little bud was her brother Raed!

May God keep them both, two green saplings in that fine family..

• On February 13 Mrs. Samira, wife of Mr. Adib Sarkis, gave birth to a boy, whom they named "Pierre" — the delivery took place at the hospital of the American University of Beirut, and the happy mother came through with Pierre in perfect health — to the family our warm congratulations.

• The salon of Mrs. Wadia Khartabil, president of the Palestinian Women's Union, was crowded on Wednesday, February 10, with upwards of sixty ladies and young ladies, gathering diplomatic personalities, Arab and foreign, and the leaders of the women's renaissance in Lebanon.

As for the purpose of the invitation, it was courtesy, and then to make known to the foreign ladies that there is such a thing as the Palestine question, which is of very great gravity, and that there is such a thing as women's awareness, working with understanding on behalf of a human cause wounded to its very heart — a cause the Westerners have wronged most grievously.

The conversations went on informally around the sumptuous buffet, in an atmosphere of affection and courtesy, and the guests thanked Mrs. Khartabil for affording them this happy opportunity.

• The patrons of the Nusour institution flocked in on Wednesday, February 16, to hear a lecture delivered by Mrs. Loreen S. Rihani, president of the Village Welfare Society, on the subject of "The Project for the Revival of the Countryside." Mrs. Rihani succeeded in drawing charming pictures representing the life of the countryside in our land, calling attention to the dangers that threaten the countryside should migration to the cities continue as it is. She then set forth some practical means of reviving this countryside by directing and encouraging its working hands, through what the members of the society are practically doing — the lecture ended with a useful discussion in which the audience took part — and in the next issue we shall print a summary of Mrs. Rihani's lecture, that its benefit may be spread abroad.

• There was recently opened, at a splendid ceremony, the permanent exhibition of ready-made clothing for women and children, prepared by the Association for Securing Employment for Refugees through the energy of its active members, at their head Mrs. Nazik al-Abid Beyhum — the ceremony was under the patronage of the great benefactress Mrs. Shafiqa Diab — at which the president, Mrs. Beyhum, delivered a graceful word of thanks; and the demand for purchases was great, which led those responsible to feel optimistic and assured as to the results.

• On Wednesday, February 10, at the invitation of the "University Women's Union," Mr. Fuad Sarruf delivered a fascinating lecture on the subject "Science: Power and Value."

The lecturer was introduced by the president of the University Women's Union, Dr. Zahia Kaddoura, who gave a sketch of his life, filled with long striving in the two fields of journalism and science, which qualifies him more than anyone else to plunge into this difficult subject.

Thereupon Mr. Fuad Sarruf rose and gave an ample study of the development of the scientific renaissance from its first beginnings down to our present age, citing decisive events wherever modern science stood as the starting point of a tremendous energy.

Then, in his intellectual wanderings, he turned to the "House of Wisdom" in Baghdad during the third Abbasid age, showing its far-reaching effect upon the scientific renaissance, and that the Arabs should look back with pride and inspiration to that golden age — perhaps they may yet return to it...

• Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah has approached the vigorous Village Welfare Society, that the two might unite their efforts on behalf of the Lebanese countryside; and since the aim of the first is to serve the village on the cultural side, and that of the second on the economic and social (women's) side, each completes the work of the other.

The idea met with support from both sides, and the study of the possibility of joint service has been begun.