Among the sights grown familiar to our eyes these days is that of the cars returning from the peaks and slopes of the mountains, skis strapped to their backs and snow piled upon them... Never have I passed a car coming back from a skiing trip on the snows without slowing a little to drink in the sight, and to peer inside at the young coppery faces, caught up in the innocent play of youth, always wishing that this winter sport might spread in the widest possible circle, until it reaches all classes of people, and especially the women among them.

I said the women — and I am never more admiring of, or more pleased with, the athletic renaissance that has begun in recent years to find its way into all Lebanese circles. But what concerns me about it particularly now is its great benefit to woman, and its attention to the beauty and harmony of her body.

And what is said of skiing over the snows in winter may just as truly be said of water-skiing in the remaining seasons of the year. Both are wholesome and beneficial,

This outfit is a Hermès design — the trousers of black poplin, and the wool sweater and cap in black and white.

This too is Hermès — the sweater light blue, and the suit beneath it black.

giving a woman's body health and vigor and bestowing upon it a supple, yielding flexibility.

Nor let us forget, likewise, the effective part that skiing — whether on snow or on water — plays in the gracefulness and trimness of a woman's figure, and in curbing the quantity of fat that usually gathers in certain regions of her body.

This is by André Ledoux — a wide cotton skirt, with a sweater and shawl of white jersey.