New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-01-10

tween Melpomene. Calypso, and tho
grave Of Thomas Jefferson, while 4
large tricolor adorns the right thiph
and free-hand sketch of a-man.o, war
is pricked into the left. Scores of de.
signs, no two of which are like, have
been engraved ESQ to speak, in the flesh,
and the vacant spaces are being filled in
day by day with others.
.'Can see you put on new pict-
ure?' asked the reporter.
The tattooer carefully wetted a small
camePs hair brush in some India ink
commonly called, but which he explain.
ed was really Chinese ink-and began
to examine his subject to see where ha
should begin. After turning her around
two or three times he selected a small
white spot on her left shoulder blade
and rapidly sketched heart punctured
BY Cupid's arrow. Then he chose one
OF several punches of needles and began
to prick the ink in.
II 60 just deep enough to draw the
blood" said he. .When that comes. I
stop: Then it Immediately swells up like
this" And he put his finger on = raw
sore on her arm. CATER three or four
days the scab comes of. and it looks
IKE this and he put his finger on her
lett knee. where was an angry-looking
blotch of the shape of a bird. .:Then tho
skin peels off twice and in about week
more it is all done.'
land the picture is there, forever"
said the reporter.
Eyes, unless it is taken out. can
take it out the same way I put it in"
This assertion, by the way, is an ex-
ceedingly doubtful one.
There is one curious thing about it."
continued the artist, as be calmly prod
ded away at the woman's back. III I
put picture on the knee l can't put
one on above it until the inflammation
is all gone, but can put one on below
it the next day if want to. The inflam-
nation always runs up. not down, and
you can't put picture on an inflamed
part"
The outlines of the heart and arrow
were now completed and he began to
cover the whole space inside with ink.
'Are you going to make that q solid
piece of color?" asked the reporter.
Eyes, indeed" said the mans wife
eagerly Don't you see there's no scroll
work in any of them? They are all solid.
This was true. In some places the
color was picked into the entire surface
of a block three inches square or more.
IF it was only the outlines wouldn't
care anything about it," she continued.
''Then it does hurt good deal?'' she
was asked.
Hurt! Well, you just try It," said she
with smile, though her lips twitched q
little with the effort. But the reporter
declined the offer and fell to examining
the tattooer's few and simple tools.
These were only the brush mentioned
and few lunches or rather rows of
needles. The smallest of these consisted
OF tive needles and the largest about
forty. They were ordinary fine sewing
needles, dashed on to pieces of bone ia
such way that they lay in rows. with
their points forming an edge like :
knife blade. These edges. the artist OK.
planned and showed, were sharpened on
milestone as knife is sharpened, in
order to secure an exact line Of points.
1t further appeared in conversation
that the woman undergoing the tattoo
ing is the daughter of well-to-do farm.
or in Pennsylvania, and is supported BY
remittances from home while her hus-
band is devoting himself to garnishine
her for her debut. As soon as she shall
have been sufficiently bedizened, which
he thinks will be in few weeks, she ID
to fulfill an engagement of year at
$50 . week. Something like the first
years receipts have been used up while
she has been undergoing the torture of
preparation. but she calculates, unless
the fashions in tattoo change, to be an
attraction in any show for the rest of
her lifa.-Nean Kork Herald