Nothing gladdens parents and their children alike so much as winning the primary certificate — the "certificat" — for this certificate is the symbol of the first victory the children carry off in the field of learning, which in this age has become boundless.
We are pleased to share in the joys of some of the magazine's friends by publishing the pictures of their children on this happy occasion...
So the brothers Michel and Mimi Hanna Yazbek met with brilliant success in both the French and the Arabic certificates.
And likewise Mona Elia Matar, one of the pupils of the French Evangelical College. As for her brother Nakhle Elia Matar, he won the primary certificate from the Collège de La Salle.
We congratulate the sweet little ones, and we hope that the certificat will be the first link in a chain of higher certificates.
In Aleppo, during the past month, the marriage contract of the charming Miss Nadia Sulayman al-Shughri, one of our subscribers in Homs, was concluded to the brilliant judge Mr. Albert Hasib al-Aqil. The wedding celebration was elegant and splendid, attended by a great crowd of men of the law and people of learning and letters, at their head the chief of the governorate's bureau, the commander of the garrison, the director of police, and the president of the Court of Appeal... We congratulate the bride and groom and wish them happiness and success in a happy married life.
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And at a joyous party that lasted until a late hour of the night, the engagement was concluded of Miss Alice Rizqallah Abu Khater to the young man Elias Rizqallah Haddad... Awaiting the completion of the joys, we wish the engaged couple harmony and good fortune.
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With the coming of June begins the arrival of summer visitors to Lebanon, and the return of the Lebanese to the hills of their homeland, to spend the summer in the mountains...
In the first caravan arriving from Iraq there reached Beirut, in succession, the ladies Natalie Fuad Nassif, Nazik Fuad Abdel Malek, and Nazik Sarkis — Mrs. Sarkis is our agent in Baghdad and secretary of the General Arab Women's Union, and she will spend the summer in Aley — so a warm welcome to all.