Mrs. Heneni Tarcha in her salon — on her left Mrs. Claire Adam and then Mrs. Lamia Said, and on her right the writer of this report, Mrs. Majida Attar Mneimneh

"The Woman's Voice" has passed, in its editing, through a number of hands, and has carried a number of supervisory committees; yet one name only has remained its faithful companion throughout the ten years: the Responsible Director, "Heneni Tarcha." And Heneni Tarcha is the president of the Lebanese Women's League, who has striven to the utmost of her powers, and given her devotion to the very last of it, at the head of an elect company of our ladies, to affirm the existence of the "League" and to carry its projects through to the goal —

Even so, this is the first time Mrs. Heneni Tarcha has been presented to the readers of "The Woman's Voice"!

— The Editors —

When the editor-in-chief entrusted me with the task of getting in touch with the president of the Lebanese Women's League, Mrs. Heneni Tarcha, she confided in my ear the difficulty of the mission... "Mrs. Tarcha does not like this stir raised about her person; she is quiet by nature, inclined to shelter under the banner of silent, fruitful work"... And I set to thinking how to go about obtaining what I wanted, and what other readers, men and women, wanted too.

So I resorted to a ruse... and got in touch with Mrs. Tarcha... a visitor wishing to make her acquaintance... any objection??... Do you know, my reader, for what

hour she set the appointment? One o'clock — she uttered the time while apologizing for the shortness of her leisure!

The maid led me into an elegant reception hall, along whose sides were ranged sumptuous velvet couches, with blossoms scattered here and there, as though spring had insisted on entering houses by their doors and into their very reception halls...

She came toward me overflowing with vitality and good cheer, as though the lady had not passed her twentieth year. But had you contemplated that crown of pure white that wreathes her head, you would have