The Pulaskian., 1919-03-28
-w- JERUSALEM is full of strang

M and interesting hooks and cor ners that are almost unknown
 to the outside world and that most of the tourists never see. In New Age Ph. J. Baldensperger writes enter tainingly of some of them.
 The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and its surrounding honeycomb of cloisters may be said approximately to have separated the Christian and the Moslem quarters of the city. Two gates, closed at night, shut off the church from the town-one below Christian street, beside the Jamiel Omari, and the other, small one, leading to the Mauristan. The Jami'el Omari is the real Mosque of Omar. It was built in A D. 637 to commemorate the first prayer said by the Caliph Omar ibn el- Khattab after his entry into the con- quered city. The small gate opposite across the court leads straight into the Moslem quarter. No Jew is ever al lowed to pass in front of the church or through either of the two gates. Once or twice an inquisitive son of Judah has tried the experiment, but he has not lived to tell the tale of his ad- venture, so roughly was he handled by the mob.
 Outside the small gate, in the Mos lem quarter, are shops for the sale of glass beads and bracelets, kept by men of Hebron, and soon you come into the street of shoemakers. The trade was established here in old days, when the abattoir was in the Mauri- stan, among the ruins of the ancient hospital of the Knights of St. John. The Mauristan was given by Sultan Abdul Aziz as present to Frederick William, crown prince of Prussia, when he visited Jerusalem in 1869. The Ger man Church of the Redeemer (Erloser- kirche) was built here after the war of 1870. The slaughter house had previ- ously been removed to waste land just inside the walls up by the Zion gate. The hides of beasts were thrown upon the road, and people walked on them till they were tanned enough for shoe making. European boots and shoes were then unknown to the majority. | The Moslem and Christian men wore soft red shoes of sheepskin; the wom- en yellow slippers of the same. The mission schools and convents had cob blers of their own, who had been taught the ways of Europe in such mat ters.
 Round the corner to the left, below the Abyssinian convent, were the sweets shops. Great was our delight when at the New Year every boy in the school received cake enriched with clarified butter and sweetened with honey and sugar. But Halaweh, Sweetstuff made of sesame meal and honey, was our perennial joy.
 Butchers, Spicers and Dyers.
 All along behind the Mauristan run three streets parallel to one another, appropriated by the butchers, the spicers and the dyers, respectively. In the butchers street, the dealers, all Moslems, sold nothing but mutton and goats flesh. As the streets are arched over. semidarkness reigned, and often we have tumbled over fat and lazy I dogs which were attached to almost every meat shop. These dogs not only kept good watch at night, but also kept ! the greasy street in tolerable condi- | ton by licking up the blood and eating l benes. But for the presence of the spicers' street at hand the shoemakers' street, with it's old skins; the butchers | street, with all its offal, and the dyers' street, with blue colored stuffs hang 1 ng from the roof, would have made he whole region smell as foul as the 1 own slaughter yard. Once or twice l week we were sent to fetch meat | needed for the kitchen on our donkey. | shc butchers street, I forgot to say,
 ardly measured three yards across, but l ith the carcasses hanging out before 2 shops there was hardly room in the chers' street for two to pass abreast. splccrs' stree. resembled 1t in this