Mahfouz al-Adas (25 years old) carried the Lebanese 'dabkeh' into clay without ever having learned the craft! He lately emigrated to the Gold Coast in search of a living!

remained before it but the road of extinction...

A painful reality, which Alma Kerr saw with her own eyes and felt with her senses; and what she saw and felt pained her, and she resolved to devote all her resources to the work of rescuing a generation, that it might recover its dignity and become its own master by way of the restoration of its confidence in itself...

With her conquering will and her wondrous patience she began to work. Her burning zeal, and a deep tenderness in her eyes, drew people to her; and how quickly her tenderness and her zeal found answer in every soul, among refugees and native folk alike, until the whole quarter boiled over with energy and enthusiasm... She had only to show them 'how' to work, and they learned quickly, and mastered what they learned...

And the project grew, and grew great!

Those women who had never in their lives made the acquaintance of a needle became versed in sewing and in mending clothes, enough to meet their needs and sustain them at a pinch... Their number reached eight hundred...

An army of men and boys learned the arts of industry — trade, the

making and mending of shoes, the crafts of pottery, iron, and straw, and the invention of designs; and shrunken, pent-up talents opened out into the loveliest of achievements!

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I stood yesterday in the exhibition hall belonging to the institution on