Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
Handsome Makeup.


time minutes as hours.
Handsome Makeup.
In topographic ways the glmmer of The
Evening Star of 1852 was to the luster of
The Evening Star of 1902 as a p,anetoid to
a sun. The Star of today is fifty years
older and fifty centuries better. And it
has grown old ard kept young. Its page is
as clear cameo-a symphony in paper
and ink. No cannon type thunder in black
to drown the voice of the smaller type; no
boisterous ads brazenly CARRIED in 70
point Gothic" "DeVinne' or poster
Ionic" shrek above the news. No rasping
line drawings or crude cuts wrapped in
heavy running borders hold up the reader
and mar the harmony of the page. No
red "smudge" cries Murder! Fire, Wreck,
or Death! The Stars typography never
was riotous lawless. 1t is serene. AS
the earliest Star turned a pretty face to-
ward the reader so does the latest Star
The Typography of The Star is the result
of growth, not the product of jolts 1t has
made improvements in it's dress, but has
never changed it's whole suit at one issae
The makeup of The Star of then and
The Star of now calls to mind this obser-
walton on the English constitution by Mac
aulay: THE present constitution of our
country is, to the constitution under which
she f1ourished five hundred years ago, what
the tree is to the sapling, what the man is
to the boy. The alteration has been great.
Yet there never was a moment at which
the chief part of what existed was not old"
The result of this even growth is a typo
graphic aspect which has dignity without
dizziness, emphasis without exclamation,
boldness without buster, earnestness with
out eagerness. It's dress well compares
with the stately grace of the New York
Evening Post, the elegance of the Tribune,
the deep solidity of the Transcript and the
Ledger, the complacent solemnty of the
Springfield Republican, the airy freshness
of the Boston Advertiser, the patient gen.
tility of the Baltimore Sun, the emphasis
of the Record-Herald and the polite typog-
raphy of the Inter Ocean and the Brooklyn
Eagle.
The Star has never been of the class of
clamorous newspapers that cut their col
umn rules without provocation and that
stud their pages with all the types from
admiral" "Aeolian" and antique to
Victoria Ionic and westminster" The
Star never affected black blazonres and
diabolic daubs.
Style in Typography.
The fonts from which The Evening Star
of 1852 was set were nonpareil and ruby.
They were broadfaced, ripe from wear and
legible. Nearly all the matter set in nom
pareil was loaded, and much of it was dou-
BILE loaded. When The Star was six months
old and passed from the sole ownership of
Joseph B. Tate to the joint ownership of
w. D. Wallach and William H. Hope new
type was installed. This was bourgeois,
1929 lines to the foot; nonpareil, 143 lines
to the foot, and type that was either
emerald or ruby. The bourgeois of The
Star of 1853 was new-cast, condensed and
so vivid in it's sharpness that it must bear
blame for the spectaces many of the old
subscribers wear. The nonpareil of the
Wallach-Hope Star was also condensed and
inflicted a severe eye strain. These fonts
contained, besides the single letters, diph-
thongs, ligatures, accented letters, leaders,