The "Child and Mother Care" Party

The charity dinner party to which the Child and Mother Care Society issued invitations on the evening of May 15 last, at the Bristol Hotel, attended by many Lebanese personalities and members of the diplomatic and press corps, was among the most successful parties of the season, thanks to its fine organization and its pleasant program. No sooner had Mrs. Chamoun arrived, accompanied by the honorary president of the society, Mrs. Shafiqa Diab — whose name has shone in every charitable project — than the orchestra played the national anthem, and immediately afterward the party was opened by the secretary of the society, Miss Wijdan Qadi, with a speech in which she welcomed those present and then gave a summary of the society's activity. After the guests had partaken of the delicious dinner to the strains of light music, Mr. Hankash delivered some of his droll jokes, which set the company ringing with warm applause. Before the raffle was drawn for the sixteen valuable prizes, Mrs. Chamoun presented to the society, represented in the person of its energetic president, Mrs. Ni'mat Qaranful, the Order of the Cedar in the rank of Knight, in appreciation of her services in the fields of health and humanity — whereupon donations poured in so abundantly that they reached nine thousand Lebanese lira.

We congratulate Mrs. Qaranful on the decoration, which she deserves most fully; and we congratulate "Child Care" on this success, achieved thanks to the zeal and activity of the ladies responsible in the society; and we wish this humanitarian institution continued progress, and the extension of its valuable health and humanitarian services to every deprived child and mother...