The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-17
TATTooEp BOSTON GIRLS.
Decoration With the Electric Needle
on Their Arms and Elsewhere.
From Every saturday.

rum LNItA Dhtuiuhy.
"Can YOU tell me-" asked the pretty
little brunette with the voluptuous red
cheeks, of the big policeman, lean you
tell me where Mr.--er-I mean Capt Nc
Kay's studio is2'
The color in her checks went an inch
higher and assalled her faultless temples.
''Never heard of him. Who is he, any
how2"
The big policeman bent his head for
further information. The pretty bru-
nette looked very much confused.
well, my brother said he was right
along here on fremont row. You see,
heard him tell viii Adams what lovely
tattooing he did, and without the sign OF
pain, too, He said lots of girls went there
just TO see his work. Well, I'm crazy
about tattooing, you know. O, not at all !;
oh, my, no, not upon myself! / just like
to see it, you know. l think 1t is lovely,
So / thought l would just look at some of
the designs. -Four doors downl o, thank
you, and the brunette told off four doors
and hustled into the last one without a
turn of her head,
Only Capt. Mckay and the pretty hru-
nette knew what happened within during
the next half hour. True, the ianitor
says he heard a very indistinct little squeal
several times through the keyhole. That
when the brunette with an expression of
guilt upon her countenance, hurried Eout
into the street Capt, Mckay told an Every
Saturday man the little tale on the under
standing that names should not be used.
mo, 1t has not quite got to be fad yet
But it will be SOON. ! have pretty girls
with the daintiest Of arms and legs come
in here every day for me to operate upon.
Yes, most of them decorate their arms
FIt-1rs n. IL
is a student at the Conservatory of Music.
lieve, She was crazy to have an Ameri-
can flag upon her leg, know she was,
but she had scarcely the courage.
~ put this little scroll upon her arm,
away around here on the side of the
muscle. No, it didn't hurt her in the
slightest. She uttered just little squeal
more of surprise that the needle did not
hurt more than, it did, than anything.
Now the ice is broken she will be back in
a week and perhaps then her courage will
be better. She will have that flag put ON
there or I'm mistaken"
The old system of iabbing with n needle
by hand has gone out of vogue. Capt.
Mckay uses electricity in his work. The
instrument employed Is an Edison cleo
trio pen with a larger eccentric so as to
give the needle the play it requires. The
play of the needle is about 1872 of an inch.
Ordinary cell batteries are attached to It,.
The same power, however, cannot be en-
ployed in tattooing all persons. 1t is reg
ulated by the condition of the skin of the
patron Two cells are sufficient for a
person with the softest skin. Hard
skinned people take all the way to six
cells, the full force of the battery.
The outlining is done with a single
needle. The shading requires seven
needles, which are placed In the machine
side by side But two kinds of ink are
used black India inlS and Chinese YER
million. These are the only colors that
can be used with perfect safety because
they are not poisonous or injurious Vase
line and witch hazel are used to relieve
the soreness when the design is COM
pleted
|. 80, yes" said the captain, "they call
for all sorts of designs. There's the cru
cifix: l have perhaps more calls for it
than for any other. They want it put
in the quereest places, too. Why, had a
man in here the other day who wanted
me to put it on his spinal column so that
the crowned head of the Savior would
appear just at his collar button.
II have tattoOed bracelets on the wrists
of pretty girls, and garters on their legs
A young woman who Is well-known to the
theater'goers of Boston has a serpent
reaching from her ankle to point well
above her knee, which did for her The
work took several days. 1t was a deli
cate job and required great care. When
l finished she gave me $35 and you never
saw more pleased girl in your life.
THE wife of well-lznown steamboat
captain has the design of a sailors fare
well on the fieshy part of her arm. She
came and told me her husband had n
similar one and she had determined to
have one like it. 1t would never do to
tell him about II, though. ! happened to
know that the captain detested the de-
sign which he bore, within year after
tattooed it. daresay If he ever discov-
cred the one his wife had they had
squally weather in that household.
II have had at least twenty-five Har-
ward students here within six months.
They mostly have such designs as the
American coat Of arms or something
patriotic. You see that Rock of Ages ?
pricked that design upon the left arm of
an out-of-town clergyman within week.
He paid me 81 for it and was highly
pleased