The First Lady of Lebanon expresses her admiration to the wife of the association's president, Fatima Khalidi Salam, at the household-management corner
their eyes the film of ignorance and dependence, to march in the procession of civilization and the modern renaissance...
On the first of July, Kfeir celebrated the inauguration of the official Brevet institute; and the celebration included a tribute to the inspector of the southern district, Mr. Antoine Sayegh, for the effort and vigilance he devotes to the education of the young... The celebration was given by the institute's administration and its students, and its orator was the lawyer Iskandar Ghobril. And finally, the address of Miss Emily Nasrallah — who happened to be there with her family for a few days — made the loveliest impression upon the souls of the listeners, who have come to know her as a silent, modest striver.
The fine arts hold no mean place in the programs of the Maqasid charitable schools. The association gives them particular care and spends the utmost effort for their progress and flowering. I observed this at close hand in a short visit to the exhibition which the Maqasid schools held at UNESCO — foremost among them the girls' college headed by Miss Zahiyah Dughan — and who has a better right than the girl to the fostering of the fine arts: sewing, embroidery, drawing, and painting?
No sooner had I entered the hall — the needlework hall — than I found myself surrounded by a splendid artistic atmosphere. Here were garments tailored in the modern style, and here wraps, kerchiefs, and cushions embroidered and figured. And over there, in one of the corners, an "enchanted corner," as the saying goes, in which were displayed kinds of sweets, preserves, and refreshments, and some silver and copper pieces
from which the tarnish had been cleared away by artistic methods — the work of the students of the girls' college. Then one of the teachers led me to the upper floor, where there stood out on the walls paintings and pictures in oils and water-colors, by the brush of the students, boys and girls alike. In some corners of the room, too, were ranged all manner of toys and educational models made by the children of the kindergarten, which likewise belongs to "the Maqasid."
All these exhibits testified to the abounding care and attention given to the encouragement of the fine arts; and these arts, for all their modesty, were the starting point toward a taste for beauty in the rising generation. God keep the women and men who labor to strengthen the artistic spirit in our institutes.
At last our colleague Nabil Khouri has forsaken bachelorhood and chosen a life companion from Egyptian climes: the beautiful Marcelle Chalhoub.
The wedding ceremony, held in Cairo on the evening of July 7
last, was attended by some 600 persons, among them men of the press and leading personalities. The bride appeared radiant in the splendor of a wedding gown that some of the Egyptian papers described as the gown of the season for elegance and luxury. After a honeymoon "brief and to the point," the groom was obliged to return to Beirut alone, his bride to follow him once the legal formalities are completed. It is said that Nabil is busy furnishing a small house in Bikfaya, where the newlyweds will spend what remains of the summer months gathering the fruits of love.
"Sahtein"—we say it in a whisper to the young bride and groom, wishing them lasting bliss and happiness.
On June 30 last, the Tripoli branch of the Lebanese Red Cross held its annual dance under the patronage of His Excellency the President of the Republic, in the garden of the Manoir (Majdalaya). At the head of the table of honor sat the branch president, the energetic Mrs. Iqbal Izz al-Din Zouk, who with the members of the Red Cross spread an atmosphere of conviviality and gaiety that made the loveliest impression among those present.