Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-17
PIERCING WOMEN'S EARS.
The Married Women Make the Most
Trouble.
From the Detroit Tribune.

From the Detroit Tribune.
els there much business in piercing
ears ?" was asked of ieweler.
"Yes, considerable; but the operation
is performed at many different places.
Doctors have lately added it to their pro-
tession, and many prefer to have them
pierced by their own family physician.
Then, among the poorer classes, and'they
almost all have their ears bored, especially
the foreign element, mothers pierce their
children's ears and as successfully as 1t
can be done by the profession.
But for all that there is many an ear
ruined by home aurists. The perforation
is made too high, or too low, or too slant
ing to make the earring hang true. The
ear should be pierced exactly in the
centre of the lobe. school girls are care
less in disfiguring each others ears by
piercing low and wearing a heavy p0ir of
rings borrowed from another companion
until they can get pair for themselves
The consequence Is the hole is dragged
down and sometimes entirely through the
lobe of the ear. | frequently pierce the
ears for ladies the second time whose ears
have been frighttuliy disfgured by the
| first attempt.
"This is what we use,' showing lit
| tie instrument like polished crochet
needle with something like piece of cord
at the end, to which a gold wire or small
earring is fastened, and which is left In
the ear until it heals, and fancy ring
can be inserted. ''The old-fashiOned, bar
barous punch, which took out bit of the
| flesh, like a shoemakers tool, is never
used now"
"Who do you have the most trouble
with, girls or children?'
"YOu will hardly credit 1t when | say
! married ladies'; but it is so. They come
| sometimes alone, but more frequently
with their husbands, go into Mysteries or
faint, holding On to their husbands
hands, as il he alone could keep them
from inevitable death. Not long since a
lady quite up in social circles came With
her husband to have her ears bored. She
had been given an elegant pair OF dia-
mOnd earrings and was very desirous of
wearing the gift. AS soon as she sat
down she grew cold and began to tremble,
| treasured her by saying 1t would take
only second, but she grew so nervous
that l gave up the attempt. l told
her husband that he had best get his
physician TO do it, by giving her gas
or ether. Occasionally young girl faints,
but it is the married women who scream
A short time ago lady went through the
ordeal with the courage of drum-maior,
DuJ On IoOklilB lnCo Inc grass 10 arrange
her bonnet she happened TO see a drop Of
blood and screamed so as to arouse every
one in the store and to gather quite a
crowd at the door. She went into regr-
lar Mysteries, and we had to telephone for
her husband. We had quite a scene with
lady once after piercing her daughters
ears-unbeknOwn to her and against her
wishes. She frightened the girl by in
sistlDg that she should have her nose
bored TO match her care, both being alike
barbarOus and unworthy of a Christian"
''By the way, We always spray the ear
with ether" said another gentleman OF
the firm; that is our own invention, 1t
benumbs the ear and is less painful than
pinching out the feeling. OF course if the
ear is hard and gritty or the nerves near
| the surface there Ia more or less pain, and
a little Inflammation will set in, For a
day or two the ears will be very tender
1t 10 very necessary that what is placed
in the ear after piercing should keep the
perforation from closing. l have known
ladies to suffer untold agony because of
the hole partly closing, the ring not being
sufficiently large to fiji the puncture and
thus decorating the ear. The best way is
to put into the ear light pair OF gold
hoops with fasteners, which Will etfectu-
ally prevent the ring from moving around.
The ear heals quicker, and afterwards a
heavier ornament can be put in"