Celebrating Tree Day
Celebrating Tree Day
On the occasion of Tree Week, the boy and girl pupils of the Model Elementary School celebrated, as usual, by planting their trees: each class planted a tree and gave it a beloved name. And although the rain poured down on them during the planting, their joy was great at
Also rejoicing in the old man of the feast
adorning their school — and thereby their country — with trees. Then they sang the tree anthem, and some of the pupils spoke of love for the tree and of caring for it.
Also Rejoicing in the Old Man of the Feast
How great was the little ones' joy when they saw the old man of the feast, "Santa Claus," coming, ringing his bells, carrying on his back a great basket full of gifts and sweets. The face of each one of them, as he came forward to receive his gift and kiss Santa Claus, overflowed with joy and delight. And when the old man told them about the poor and unfortunate children at this feast, the pupils resolved to give up buying little sweets for two days and to gather this money, so that they in their turn might be the old man of the feast for the needy.
Mrs. Victoria Jureidini Majdalani, a venerable womanly figure, was taken from us at the beginning of December... The news of her death came from Manchester, in England, where she had settled for nearly half a century with her husband, the distinguished merchant, the late Wakim Majdalani. They left behind descendants who lift Lebanon's brow high in the land of civilization — four sons and three daughters, of whom the only one left to us here is Mrs. Elie, wife of Mr. Fuad Sarruf, vice-president of the American University of Beirut.
It was as though an inner voice had whispered to the departed that her life was on the wane: she was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sarruf, in Beirut until November 24, and she passed months in the hills of Lebanon, which she loved so dearly, among hundreds of kinsfolk and friends, before returning to her second homeland to close her radiant eyes forever, amid the tender grief of her many children and grandchildren.
May God have mercy on our departed one, the righteous striver; she fulfilled her mission on this transient earth in the fullest manner, and her soul has earned peace and mercy in everlasting bliss...