At the ball given by the Mar Elias Orphanage Society at the Saint-Georges
The hall of the Saint-Georges was packed on Sunday night, May 12, with a great crowd of Beirutis at the grand ball to which the "Ladies of the Mar Elias Orphanage" society, presided over by Mrs. Hortense Tamer, had issued its invitation.
The truth is that the ball met with dazzling success, thanks to the high zeal and boundless activity with which the members of the society worked in preparation for it. A pleasant surprise was the announcement of "fortunes read in the bottom of the coffee cup," as well as the arts of the lottery... And it was a stirring sight, the ladies going out at the end of the night carrying bundles and boxes — everything under the sun!!
I said the ball was a success: several official personalities presided at the table of honor, and the circles of dancing turned with rapture and enthusiasm until the break of dawn..
It remains to mention that a quarter of the party's proceeds
goes, as it does every year, to the orphanage's innocent little ones. In the care of the capable, tender-hearted directress, Miss Ramza Karaoglan, they feel neither orphanhood nor humiliation.
After an absence of nine months in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Miss In'am al-Saghir returned during the past month to Lebanon to spend a short holiday among her family — one that did not exceed two weeks. Our friend In'am occupies a high administrative post there: she is an adviser on educational affairs in Dhahran. And the country over there, contrary to what we had imagined, is a piece of America: all the manifestations of modern civilization are to be found in Dhahran — the gardens, the hotels, the swimming pools, the roads, and the promenades are no less splendid and beautiful than those of Europe and America... We saw this with our own eyes
in a color motion-picture film that In'am showed us at her home; and we understood, indirectly — despite In'am's denials — that she is not wholly removed from the literary life in which we once knew her to be so active, but is rather engaged in writing personal literary memoirs with which she will surprise us soon...
Mrs. Clemence Sayegh, wife of the engineer Fouad Sayegh, of the family of the Contracting and Trading Company there, has returned to Beirut from Aden with her two children, Hala and Haifa. Mrs. Clemence is one of The Woman's Voice's devoted
Clemence Sayegh with her two little girls, Hala and Haifa
readers, and she expressed her admiration for the tangible progress in the magazine's standard and for the great eagerness with which the magazine was received in Aden, snatched up by hands and hearts alike.
Clemence Sayegh has a long story to tell about Aden, full of the strange and the charming, and she has promised us to set down its social side for our readers..
A hearty welcome to the dear neighbor — and on to the coming issue, and her talk of Aden...