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where the different types 

 and costumes are seen to the 

 best advantage. Unfortu- 

 nately this trading center is 

 now almost entirely given 

 up to the sale of cheap Aus- 

 trian manufactured goods ; 

 this is particularly disap- 

 pointing, as the Bosnian is a 

 born craftsman, combining 

 great taste in color and de- 

 sign with dexterity in hand- 

 ling his material. The gov- 

 ernment has opened schools 

 for both sexes for training 

 in the manufacture of text- 

 iles, rugs, inlay and metal 

 work, but to us, watching 

 the streets in the Bazar, 

 where the cross-legged, tur- 

 baned men were at work on 

 all sorts of leather, was by 

 far more fascinating. They 

 fashion this material of 

 every conceivable shade into 

 bags, belts, harness, and 

 shoes of every size and for 

 every national costume, 

 from the high, loose, lemon- 

 tinted boot the Turkish 

 women wear in the street to 

 the clumsy, elaborate shoe 

 for the countryman, with 

 no heels and a turned-up, 

 pointed toe, most craftily 

 worked and ornamented in 

 another colored leather. 



We became quite chummy 

 with a fair-haired, blue-eyed 

 young Bosnian whom we 

 met in the Bazar, and who 

 called himself a "Turk," as 

 do so many of the Mos- 

 lems. To our surprise he 

 show us the interior of the Husef Beg 

 Mosque, and he seemed much pleased 

 when we admired its lofty proportions. 

 He also took us to a coffee-house or 

 "kavanna," patronized entirely by na- 

 tives — really a garden inclosed with a 

 lattice fence, the humbler guests sitting 

 on wooden benches under the trees, the 



COUNTRY WOMAN, HERZEGOVINA (SEE PAGE 332) 



offered to 



more exalted in pretty, thatched-roofe 1 

 summer-houses on each side. The coffee 

 booth was aglow with shining brass 

 utensils and bright charcoal fire. Twink- 

 ling lights brought out the dark, ricli 

 dress of the well-to-do town Moslems, in 

 fez, slippers, black silk trousers, and 

 jaunty little jackets embroidered in gold, 

 who were sipping the delicious coffee, 



