Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-14
TOMORROW'S BIG STAR.
A Partial List of the Contents of the
Saturday Edition.

Fact, fiction and fashion will each and all
be we'll represented in tonlorrow's big edi-
ton of TIE Star. AS usual, the Saturday
star will be full Of good reading for all
sorts and conditions OF men-and women.
Specia! articles of timely interest from
The Stars regular staff of writers will be
supplemented by others from special
writer's here and elsewhere.
Beside the regular installment of Anthony
Hopes very readable story, there will be
bright and attractive piece of fiction, COM
plete, from the pen of James Workman,
entitled THE White Cockade." The efforts
Of The Star to supply its readers with a
series of short stories, keeping up always
to a high standard of literary value, have
met with an abundant success, and fiction
Is not the least important of the features
Of the Saturday Star. The scene OF THE
White Cockade" is laid in England in the
eighteenth century. and the story is breezy
and full of incident.
There will also be another letter from
The Stars special correspondent in Yoko-
hama. Japan, which is quite as important
and interesting the one printed last
week. In the second letter the writer sets
forth the pressing needs of Japan at the
present time. Too much attention, he
thinks. has been paid to creating an i'm
mense army and navy and too little to pro-
viding better facilities for transportation
II roughout the country road and water
ways.
Just at this time Of year there is rather a
The Star tomorrow will contain several
articles on the base ball situation and the
outlook for the coming season, as well as
other branches of athletics.
Among the other features worthy of note
may be mentioned the following:
THE GREEK COLONY 0llustrated)
A description of the life of the pictur-
esque sons of Hellas in Washington,
most of whom are il the fruit and
candy business.
DAINTY AND USEFUL 0llustrateD
The Stars regular New York fashion cor
respondent sends a bright and timely
art letter on the latest styles in tea
gowns.
TOWERS OF SILENCE GllustratedD.
An article by Moulvi Islander, himself a
Parsee, in which he describes the Gu
rious custom of the Parsees of India in
giving the bodies of their dead over to
the vultures.
FOR MORNING WEAR 0llustrateD.
he Of ctx-la
ten an article for the women readers of
The Star describing some gowns that
are at once stylish and practical.
LAUNCHING A SHIP Qllustratedo.
Few people realize the amount of skill
and figuring necessary to put a big man
of-War off the keel-blocks into the
water.
A TRIO OF BIG MEN
Some hitherto unpublished stories about
Senator Burrows and his two brothers,
all of whom have achieved eminence.
SKETCH EXHIBITION.
The creditable display of pictures to he
opened under the auspices of the So
ciety of Washington Artists next Mon
day.
SOME FISTIC HEROES
A lively description of the part that the
manly art of self-defense has played in
the literature of the world, from Virgil
down to Bulwer Lytton.
FAMOUS OLD MARKET.
Sterling Heilig writes description of
that part Of Paris that was once the
stronghold Of the Knights Templar, but
is now given up to the shops of dealers
in secondhand clothes.
NAMES OF LONG AGO.
The homes and business life Of Washing
ton generation back