Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1919 — Have Three Sundays [ARTICLE]

Have Three Sundays

Turks Observe Friday, Jews Saturday, Christians Sunday. American Relief Workers In Bosnia, However, on Duty Seven Days a Week. Safajevo, is observed three times a week here. Because there are 35,000 Turks in the city Friday is the first Sunday. Then all the Turkish stores close and one goes twice a day to some of the hundred mpsques whose slender minarets gleam white against the green background of the hills. , Because 200 years ago a group of Spanish . Jews settled in Bosnia, Saturday is Sunday for many Sarajevans. Then all the Jewish stores are closed and the Jews of the city crowd the big yellow synagogue of the main street. Because all the rest of the 54,000 inhabitants of Sarajevo and hundreds of peasants from the hills around are Serbs and Bosnians, following the Roman Catholic and the Greek orthodox beliefs, the Sunday Sabbath is the biggest holy day of all in Sarajevo. All the stores except the Turkish are closed.

The churches are crowded with people dressed in every style from the Belgrade fashions to homespun trousers for both men and women, with huge beaded shoes and woolen turbans. After that modern Sarajevo walks about the modern quarters and old-fashioned Sarajevo dances the “Kolo” in the big square of the crowded “The result of three Sundays a week for the people here is no Sundays at all for the Americans, who find no day without some school or hospital that must be provided for,” said Lieut. John D. Hartung of Bay Shore, L. L Lieutenant Hartung is in charge of the medical supplies from America, which have made the Bosnian hospitals possible.