place only seven days before.

The welcoming faces. The kind treatment...

The Doctor lit a cigarette, and — as though the vagueness of the idea in my eyes troubled her — took me by surprise, asking: And you, my dear, what is your wish? Why don't you marry?

I grew flustered, and mur-mured, to her and to myself: Marriage is a new wish I add to the heaps of wishes I carry.

3 — Mrs. Eva Malik lived as the wife of our Foreign Minister for more than ten years far

from homeland and family... by reason of the posting of her husband, Dr. Charles Malik, to represent Lebanon in the New World. Hardly had I uttered the word “wish” in her hearing over the telephone when she hastened to answer: My wish was to settle down in my own home, in Lebanon — and the idea dearest to me has come true.

And no sooner had I asked her about a new wish, for the future, than she volunteered: Again, stability — only in a more complete form, so that I may set my life in order: enter my son in school, take up my ties with friends again, and return to the social round.

And when I tried to draw

her toward politics, she caught herself with tact, holding fast to “stability,” and said:

Lebanon has passed through grave and turbulent troubles. But it has now overcome them, and all I wish for it is that it too may enjoy stability — spreading order, cooperation, and renais-sance, in its cooperation with the other countries.

4 — And although Mrs. Salwa al-Said was absorbed in preparing the “sandwiches” and the molds of “cake,” and the plates and the vegetables... laying an appetizing table, she talked to me of politics... and of the failure of the idea

of “the unity of the Arab word.” And when she wishes anew, she wishes for nothing but that the Arab countries should agree upon a single, united political course.

She excused herself, ushering me off to keep me away from the smells of the meats, and the vanilla, and the eggs... So I tossed out my question, asking what the “Baalbeck Festivals Committee” — of which she is a member — had accomplished in the past summer; and she warmed to the tale of the success of the folk dancing introduced into the festi-vals — in a short time, and with prodigious efforts — and of the birth of the Lebanese theater, the

revival of the Arab theater, and the creation of an artistic work of world rank that will draw tourists and spectators from every corner of the earth.

5 — As for Miss “Edma Bayoud,” she has an enormous project: the raising of a building for the Young Women's Christian Association, to bring together the Muslims and the

Christians of this country, for brotherhood and united work in the service of Lebanon.

She explained that this build-ing will be a center of high standard to stand against the many cheap clubs we have, and the cafés, and the cabarets... She is hopeful that this club for youth will be the bridge at which the cooperation of all the communi-ties of this country will meet. In Miss Bayoud's view, our women will succeed in wiping out every factional zeal, to unite the ranks.

As for the building, it will rise in the heart of the city.

As for what she accomplished in the past year, Miss Bayoud replies that the Association took part in organizing and adminis-tering the training conference

held in the social field,