A Country Not for Children

This is a country not for children..

Yes, not for them — and there is no cause to raise the eyes in astonishment..

A few days ago I was riding in a car that nearly did away with a child playing in the road. There were three others besides me in the car, and their voices rose cursing this child's mother, and my tongue almost moved to curse her too — but I held my peace and asked myself: where, I wonder, is this child to play, if he does not play in the road?

Our houses are without gardens; our streets are not wide enough to allow for the flower-beds of a capital, as is the case in all the capitals of the world; our cars all but colonize the streets inch by inch.

And play and movement are nature in our children, and shutting them up in the houses demands an energy that not every mother or every household can muster.

Where, then, are our children to play.. tell me, where do you want them to play? If they play in the houses, the neighbors raise a clamor from below and above, from right and left — and the walls of our boxlike dwellings are thinner than the religion of infidels, as they say.

If they play on the roofs or the balconies, the danger of falling is graver than the dangers of the street.

And the street — God keep the owners of the cars — is not for those who walk.. and public gardens have no existence save in the minds of those who dream of a utopian Beirut.

Where, then, are our children to play??

Was I unjust when I said this is a country not for children??

And a World for Women...

This world is for women.. so say the owners of the motion-picture production companies. They say they take care that their films should come with an appeal to the mentality of the woman first of all, for if the woman relishes a thing she pushes her husband and

her family and her friends and her neighbors toward it.

The woman, then, is responsible, without knowing it, for this cheapness that colonizes our tastes — the cheapness from which only a few films escape, films that dwindle before the films of the heroics of thieves and highwaymen and the butchers of history, and of wanton women.. Well, thanks indeed to those who presume in woman all this power of

influence!! — this power which I

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