The newspapers of São Paulo repeated with much pride the news of the "cocktail party" given last month by Mrs. Victoria, wife of Mr. Fares Raji, Consul General of Lebanon, in honor of the first lady of São Paulo, the wife of Dr. Jânio Quadros.
It is worth mentioning that this is the first time such a party has been held in the Lebanese house in São Paulo, gathering the wives of the consuls of Italy, Spain, France, and Peru, alongside the choice elite of the ladies of the Lebanese colony. At this party the refinement and taste that distinguish the Lebanese woman shone forth — she drew all eyes, not to her elegance alone, but to her wit, the breadth of her culture, and her skill in conversing in English and French, besides Arabic, for which she was envied...
With the words "Ahlan wa sahlan" Mrs. Victoria Raji welcomed her gracious guests, and so commanded the respect and admiration
of all; and conversation circled, deep and fluent, in an atmosphere of friendliness and welcome...
There is no doubt that the task of those in the diplomatic corps is delicate in the extreme... A single gesture or phrase may create a crisis between two countries... It is wisdom, without doubt, to choose the members of this corps from among those of broad culture and keen intelligence, together with open-heartedness and graciousness; for they are the face of Lebanon outside Lebanon, and the face is the mirror of the soul...
• Among the month's news: the government has conferred on Dr. Anas Barakat Baz, wife of Mr. Jirji Niqula Baz, the gilded Lebanese Order of Merit, in appreciation of her abundant services in the field of women's medicine over a long stretch of time. Since Dr. Anas was the first woman to practice medicine in Lebanon and to persevere in it, we shall present her next month to our gracious readers.
• God has blessed Mr. Abdullah Muhammad al-Jundi and his esteemed wife with a baby boy, whom they have named "Abd al-Rahman" in fulfillment of a vow. The birth took place on the sixteenth of August.
may review, Madam, the fashions across a stretch of time. The flounce and the tight-laced waist
are among the traits of the Cretan age; in the Byzantine age, ornament and embroidery in gold and silver spread over the garment; the splendor of the headdress shows itself in the Middle Ages; velvet cloth reigned in its use in the age of Henry VIII, and glitter prevailed generally in the days of Queen Elizabeth. And the days move on to the age of chivalry, in which the men let their hair hang loose and set about competing with one another in introducing 'lace' into their dress!!
It is half a dream, through which you pass in review, and it cannot come true; for fashions, even if they appear again in another time, must lose the stamp of their own age to come forth in a new frame.
And we return to this age, to see ornament shrinking, and the practical fabrics flooding the market.
After the French Revolution, fashion returned to simplicity, and excessive ornament was neglected; but the reaction came in the period that followed, when the dress swelled out until it needed something to prop up the two sides of the skirt, and metal rods had to be used to preserve its shape — so much so that it was difficult for two ladies to sit on a single seat. And how does that compare with the ladies of our own age, and their sitting at ease on the bench of a tram, for instance?
Clothes are tangible things; and however long time stretches over them, and however far the days advance with them... they remain alive, so long as they show forth history within their folds!
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