Show girls of arabian race eager for instruction beirut the leading center cf education in the near east has more schools and colleges native and foreign than any city of its size in the world but its girls schools before the world war were all foreign and more or less of a missionary character that Is why moslem parents refused to send their daughters to them cut but during the war when all the foreign schools were closed a syrian woman mary kassab opened a native school in the building of the english mission the tha success of tills this school was such that the attendance in a 11 few years rose from 20 to and an enthusiasm for education was k kindled in nil all the neighboring countries from arak from palestine from all parts of the arabic speaking world girls of all creeds Mos moslems lents and Chist lans and cruses come today to the ahll yah school of 0 mary kassab the secret of its popularity according to a writer in the new york times lies principally in the fact that besides being native it Is nonsectarian non sectarian technically and executively also it enjoys an unusual reputation |