Hamra Street — and what amaze-ment seized me! Mrs. Kerr pointed to the splendid, comfortable furniture: chairs and benches and tables, shoes, carpets and rugs.

'It fills me with pride and delight,' she said, 'that everything in this hall is the work of my children!'...

This chair was designed and made by a boy of 12 — these plates and pitchers of superb 'ceramic' are the work of a lad not past sixteen. 'He used to color pitchers with his mother, and under our guid-ance his gift crystallized quickly. Among these pale-faced boys are tremendous native powers — if it were granted them to burst forth, they would bring marvels. They have "hands of gold" — and we now have sixty of them drawing wages, and they have begun to feel the pleasure of work, and the worth of an honorable living earned by the sweat of the brow!

'Would you believe that one of the feudal sheikhs asked us to teach him a handicraft?! Is that not the greatest victory for the end for which I came, and for which I work?

'From under the hands of "my children" there come forth every day marvels of this furniture — which they call "the furniture of tomorrow" for its regard for the very newest requirements of comfort, simplicity, and taste. We are able to furnish the modern houses almost completely, carpets and rugs included, in which no one can keep pace with us. We have shipped our goods to five countries — apart from the orders that come to us from Lebanon.

'And what we give most of our attention to is the encouragement of the creative power. To that end we distribute the weekly prizes for the finest model or design; and what pride comes to their winners! And what an effect it leaves in quickened spirits and lifted morale!

'And thanks to their success, and the happiness that has flooded their hearts, their negativeness has turned into an open, beneficent positiveness. We need only hint to them of our wish to offer a gift to their refugee brethren in Syria, and the men and the women enlist and rush to finish the work quickly and well... and, above all this, with love!'

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Mrs. Alma Kerr has found the key to the secret... By helping the refugees and the poor by way of doles and gifts alone, we only destroy what remains of their

vitality and their dignity, and drive them into a life of depen-dence and submission... The one and only way to give them light, that they may make out their road with their own eyes, is by way of discovering their talents and arming them with a manual trade that lifts their standard of living to the respectable level; and on this foundation they can plan a future in which they may put their trust.

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