Tattooing Girls' Cheeks Red.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1886, Page 5

Tattooing Girls' Cheeks Red.

Tub fashionable edict has gone forth that it is the proper thing to look' healthy and robust. The day of the confirmed invalid, the "delicate flower," and all that sort of thing, is passed, and now our belles are striving to see who can look the hardiest. The daughter of a distinguished naval officer is, and has been, one of the leaders of the " hoolthy craze." Her plump, wellrounded figure and swinging gait can be seen in Pennsylvania Avenue nearly every afternoon, rain or shine, and she has the ruddiest pair, of cheeks in , Washington. Sho looks the perfect picture of health, but some of her sharp sisters have been tracking up the secret of how her pale complexion disappeared so suddenly. It appears that the youug lady called in the. services of an old BaHor who had known her ever since she was a " weo bit of a thing," and told him she was miserable becauee she never had any oolour in her face. She asked him to tattoo her cheeks a delicate shade of red, and although the operation was quito painful, she stood it bravely, and ths consequence is,that she will have a red face oven after death. -It is said that eoveral society belles contemplate undergoing the same course of treatment, , .