less broth in it, had the rice been better done and the meat more thoroughly cooked, and had there been fewer spices, the dish might have been called "maqlubeh."

And yet Ghanem and I ate our meal with appetite, and afterward we celebrated my having established my footing as a cook.

A few days ago I rejoiced — rejoiced greatly — when I found in Nahida's letter her strong spirit, her green hopes, for she says:

Ghanem is paying the price for the sake of a great dream, the dream of us both. He works 365 days a year, and he knows the road is hard and long, but we shall travel it together... I shall stay with him to the end, and perhaps I shall not come this summer.

I live my own ambition in this man's labor.

Bravo, Nahida. My salute to you, and to every wife who sees for herself a shadow reaching beyond the bounds of femininity.

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Advice for Fame

I was always the victim of a belief that persuaded me that doctors do not read.

And that if they do read, there is nothing for them but the black medical books with Latin titles.

It was my wish to find a volume of poetry in a doctor's library.

But lately I have been freed from my illusion.

For there fell into my hands the book of a doctor's memoirs, by Axel Munthe.

You will ask me what a book I happened to read has to do with the culture of doctors, and I answer that a passage in Axel Munthe's book inclined me to change my opinion.

The literary doctor — or the doctoring man of letters — says in his book: I did not become a famous physician of wide renown until after I had raised my fees to an almost fantastic level. When I was a humane physician, "polite society" neglected me, when it did not disdain me; in its eyes, as I spent my efforts in the cause of good, I was like a deacon collecting donations for the burial of a tax collector...

Our doctors have read Axel Munthe, no doubt about it, and they have profited greatly from his experience — no doubt about that either...

Yes, may the doctors forgive me... they do read.

In simple words I shall try to set out what I have gathered from a reliable source about Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay, the Indian lady

who visited Beirut at the beginning of June.

— 5 years in prison for the sake of the independence movement.

— President of the Indian Handicrafts Board — a board that works to revive the village and folk arts threatened with extinction.

— She fosters theatrical and musical activity in India.

— President of the Arab-Indian Friendship League.

— A prominent and active worker in the Indian Socialist Party.

After this introduction, the farce becomes plain that lies behind the desperate struggle of some of our women to win the title of leader... a women's leader... with apologies to the lady leaders...

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