far that I grew anxious on his account. I found myself intensely taken up with the question of my son's milk-drinking — and that was more than was good for him. So I collected a number of cups of different colors and shapes and set them out for my son Michel on a little shelf within reach of his hand. It delighted him greatly to choose the cup he would drink his milk from, and his response to the words “Which cup do you want to drink your milk in?” was far better than his response to the words “Drink your milk now!”
• My son, aged two and a half, was forever losing things. To spare him tantrums over this, I began the following game. When I heard him repeating in a mournful voice, “I've lost it, I've lost it,” I answered him, “Well now, where can it be? Is it in your shoe, or in your sock?” And I did the same every time in such a case, reciting in his hearing the strange places where things might be hidden. He entered into the
spirit of the game at once, answering, “No, it isn't there — it's on my head!” — which set us both laughing. After some time had passed, I found that he had really begun to remember where he might have put his things.
Dr. Afif Haddad
Specialist, from the hospitals of Paris and America, in women's diseases, genital diseases, and obstetrics; and in the treatment of sterility and diseases of the endocrine glands.
His clinic: Jeanne d'Arc Street — Hamra — near the ABC stores — building of Emir Muhammad al-Suwaydari — third floor.
He receives his visitors daily: from 9 to 12 and from 3 to 6.
The Annual Literary Competition of the Arabic Service of Radio Paris
The Arabic service of the Paris station holds annual literary competitions, and this year it has devoted them to the poem and the short tale (that is, the short story):
Conditions of the competition:
First — The poem — or the tale — must be original compositions, not translations, and unpublished.
Second — Three typewritten copies of each are to be sent by registered mail, signed with a pen name. In a small envelope the title of the poem — and of the tale — is to be given, together with the author's real name and full address.
Third — The final deadline for entries is the thirtieth of June 1958.
Fourth — The entrants' works will be examined by a committee appointed by the literary section of the Arabic service of Radio Paris. The two winners will be announced on a day to be fixed between the fifteenth of July and the thirty-first. It is stipulated that the members of the committee take no part in the competition.
The prize:
The two winners will be invited to Paris, a stay of ten days there will be arranged for them, and they will be returned by airplane, at the expense of the Arabic service of Radio Paris.
The literary section of the Arabic service of Radio Paris retains the entrants' works.
The address:
RADIODIFFUSION-TÉLÉVISION FRANÇAISE — ÉMISSIONS ARABES
CONCOURS LITTÉRAIRE
118, avenue des Champs-Élysées, PARIS-8e (France)