A NEW FEMININE CRAZE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5634, 6 December 1879, Page 3

A NEW FEMININE CRAZE.

A correspondent writesA new craza has taken possession of American womankind, and that is the fashion of tatooting the limbs, breast, or shoulders in Indian iuk. Of all places the Quaker city of Philadelphia is the most given to it. The operators, mostly female, but not always so, have their hands full of business. Monograma, devices, the names of friends, lovers, or relatives, are pricked into the skin, until one is puzzled to think how they bear the torture. A reporter was admitted to one of those operating rooms aud saw it all through a screen. One woman had no less than eight devices, including monograms, crosses, half-moons, &c., tatuoed from the knee down. Lately, the women have become almost crazy about it. The charges range from odol. to 50d01., accordiug to design. All Eastern and Southern cities aie possessed with this craze, which has extended to Chicago, St. Louis, and this coast. 1 suppose you have not yet got t > this pitch of fashionable disfiguration in New Zealand, although it was an open secret there a quarter of a century ago fiat tatoo;:u- n-as not unknown to the families of the enrll st .vhite inhabitants, especia'ly in tile t\ir north. It may have gone out of fashion, however, and it would be well not to revive it.