Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-23
TAETOOED WOMEN.
How 1t Is Done.

From New York Correspondent.
The active competition between the tattooed
women awakens interest. Two in New York
have voluntarily submitted themselves to the
processes OF puncturing and poisoning neces-
sary to produce the emblaZonment which makes
captain COstentenus as picturesque as his name
and now third is undergoing few months of
torture in order that she may he SO distisafed
that curiosity-seekers may gapemther. This
last young female SAYS of another wOIrlftn ::
Anybody could be tattooed like her but it
takes the nerve to have solid picture
prcked in"
And are you really illustrated with cuts all
Over?" asked reporter.
Not yet," was the reply; ''but I'm getting to
be-"
An engagement was made for the reporter
to be present when the next operation was per-
formed. The reporter was startled, not to say
shocked, by the prOmptness with which she dis
played various parts OF her anatomical struc-
ture when he called at her room. 1t seemed q
trlfle immOdest for her to shewai1 pDiyabtsMAats
she proposes to exhibit in pIlAbitot AQiyinkl;l
but after brief struggle with his sense of pro-
priety he looked with great interest at certainly
the most remarkable collection of pictures ever
exhibited. The gentleman who devOtes his
days to the puncturing of his wifes epidermis
Is sailor, or has been one. and has imbibed TO-
castle notions OF art, together with his knowl-
edge OF tattOOing. Accordingly, his wfes arms
legs and body look as if she had had violent
eruption of flags, tOmbstones alIegOrical figures
and moral and patriotic notices.
God bless our homes" Demonstration is
the thief Of time and 1.-The Union forever"
fill up the interstces between ,MeIpomene,
Calypso and the grave of Thomas ffeIspn
while large tr-color adorns the fls1tt ipti
and free-hand sketch of a. mar -waRs is
prlcked Into the left. Scores OF designs no
two of which are alike, have been engraved $50
to speak, In the flesh, and the vacant spaces are
being filled in day by day by others.
=, "Can see you put on new picture?" asked
the reporter.
The tattooer carefully wetted a small camels-
hair brush In some India ink, commonly SO
called, but which he explained was really Chi
nese ink, and began to examine his subject to
see where he should begin. After turning her
around two or three times he selected small
white spot on her left shoulder blade and rap:
Idly sketched heart punctured by Cupids
arrow. Then he chose one Of several punches
OF needles and began to prick the ink in.
81 go just deep enough to draw blood" said
he when that comes I stop Then it imme-
diately swes up like this" and he put his finger
on raw sore OH her arm. CATER three or four
days the scab comes of. and it looks like this"
and he put his finger on her left knee, where
there was an angry-lOOking biotch Of the shape
of bird 'Then the skin peels off twice, and
In about week or more it is all DONE"
The woman undergoing the tattOoing is the
daughter of awell-to-do farmer in Pennsylvania,
and is supported by remittances from home,
while her husband is devOting himself to gar
nishing her for her debut. AS soon as she
shall have been sufficiently bedizened, which he
thinks will be in a few~weeks she is to fulfill
an engagement OF year at $40 a week. Some
thing like the first years receipts have been
used upwhile she has been undergoing the tor
ture OF preparation, but she calculates, unless
the fashions in tattoo change, to be an attrac-
tion in any .'shOw" for the rest of her life