with a great deal of optimism and hope!
A quick word about her private life is in order. Mrs. Nassif now manages, in partnership with her father-in-law, a successful business founded by her late husband forty years ago. As for the great tragedy of her life, it is the loss of her only son in battle during the Second World War! So the bereaved mother rises to lull her tears and her grief, and fills her emptiness with fruitful social work, lest idleness wake her to the horror of the calamity... Herein lies Mrs. Nassif's greatness, and her distinction above other mothers!
She quite carries you away with her eagerness in speaking of the work of the Eastern Federations — how the wives of the five Arab ambassadors in Washington gathered: Mrs. Malik (Lebanon), Mrs. Zeineddine (Syria), Mrs. Ahmad Jabbar (Saudi Arabia), Mrs. al-Shabandar (Iraq), and Mrs. Hussein (Egypt), together with a company of ladies such as Suriya and Genevieve Rizk and Hanneh Daoud, working hand in hand with the members of the Eastern Federations to hold a charity bazaar of Arab food. On its tables were heaped great quantities of ma'moul, spinach pies, vine leaves stuffed in oil, baklava, and so on — all made by our own ladies — and sold to the bazaar's visitors, most of them Americans!... The proceeds came to 1,367 dollars, presented yesterday as a gift to Father Kortbawi's institution... Last year's gift, worth 1,600 dollars, went to the Musa Alami project.
...A mighty activity, without a doubt, on which Mrs. Nassif and her colleagues are to be congratulated — and no wonder she has been chosen president of the Eastern Federations two years in succession! For when a woman is devoted, she gives herself wholly in her devotion, and gives of her mind, her heart,
and her whole being...
Blessed be the woman devoted
to her homeland and her society — women like Mrs. Nassif.
Butagaz
SHELL BUTAGAZ
Butagaz
The cause of comfort in the home