The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-31
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lCincinnati Enquirer.l

A lCincinnati Enquirer.l It takes all kinds of people to make ur
 a world. and among the vast number on
 this continent there arc about half a dozeu
 taftooed ladies Within the past year
 three of them have visited Cincinns.i
 Mile. Dora-who is nov in California
 Miss Irene Woodward and. Mile. Grace.
 the young lady who receatly made her
 debut here with Uncle John Robinson's
 show. Grace was work of art " from
 the studio" of Prof Thomas. The pro-
 lessor has been "in the business r for
 over thirty years, and he is a veteran in
 his peculiar line. In about two weeks the
 assembly of tattooed beauties will be in-
 creased by one who is really the hand
 somest woman who has yet undergone
 the painful operation of being tattooed.
 The old adage of practice makes per-
 feet " is one which is adapted even to the
 enterprise of filling a woman's skin with
 different colcred inks. Mile. Aimee n
 the stage-name of the lady in question,
 is profiiing by the knowledge revealed
 through former experiments, and if the
 indelible pictures which she has gained
 by siege of suffering most intense can
 be termed artistic, they are certainly en- titled to be so called. Aimee " is not a Cincinnati girl, neither is yet in the cate gory of those whose hearts are free from encumbrance. She is married. This is given in kindness for the benefit of the youths who will, no doubt, be attracted by face which six weeks of a terrible experience has not robbed of its beauty. She is petite, and speaks with all the evil dences of refinement.
 Last evening an EsgHiyey reporter met her at her room in the Washington Park hotel, on Twelfth street. Her husband was there. Miss Aimee" had no hesi- tation in saying that had she known of the agsny which attended such an un- dertaking she would not now have been SO near completed animated panorama. The professor IS a cute one When he began he did his first work on her wrists. and thus gave her an insight of the pain she would be obliged to endure. With | her wrists encircled by bracelets which | only death can efface, there was no with drawing from the contract, and she had | borne the suffering ever since. From two | 10 three hours day was the time which | .he professor occupied in his work, and | often when his task ended she has been | 90 exhausted that her husband had to | take her and carry her to bed. Her skin
 IS quite thin in fact, the professor re- marked that she lost nearly as much | blood every day as Grace did all during her trial. Upon Aimee's body are many new fgures-designs of her own 1oncep- ion. The pictures are not crowded to- sether. but are generally clear and dis tinct. A necklace and locket decorate her throat. Her shoulder pieces are bright red roses, with the stems in the hands of winged oupids. On her right breast is an erial hgure-a mythical maiden soaring above things earthly. A emblem, the three links ofOdd- fellowship, female warrior with shield, ! badge of the C. A. R., star and crossed and series of three hearts. in which the initials :" I. M. A."-her own Ire inscribed, and the Goddess of Lib. :rty, are among the figures adofning her lght arm. On her left arm Faith, Hope md Charity, beehive, a figure of foung America, small cross wrea.hed with flowers, and ballet-dancer are DOT rayed. The bracelets about the wrists lre not alike. One represents cameo md the other floral chain.
 The large figures of an American and n Indian girl are upon her back, and below them IS a ship and a constellation 'f stars, which must needs be hidden rom the world. The work upon her legs s most elaborate On her left is an American coat of arms, Liberty clasping he Stars and Stripes, a lighthouse and ship in the distance. On the cali is a rec, about which two serpents are ooiled n an endeayor to entrap several birds rho have taken to flight Above her knee s a pretty picture of a sailor and his weethear. He is kissing his love good y. The village he is leaving is shown
 n one side, and the ship on which he ails on the other. An English coat of rms, the eM blem of the Order of Elks, he crucihxion, vessel and globes are mong the figures on her right leg. Above that knee IS tomb. on either side f which is woman. This is just out med, and is not yet completed. Aimee Till make her professional debut here cry SOon