TATTOOING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3255, 13 July 1889, Page 2

TATTOOING.

It is a little startling to find that the practice of tattooing is in full vogue in London, where there is at any rate one professional tattooer who makes a good living out of the work. Among his clients it appears ho numbers noblemen, officers in the Army, and several ladies. In reply - to a newspaper reporter who interviewed him, the tattooer said that the "ladio?" go in chiefly for orn.n .

Y montatiou on tho wrist or call. "One ' lady," ho added, " camo to mo to have a beauty spot marked on lie face; but I should not be surprised to see her back some day with tho request that I will eradicate it." In answor to another question he said that not many people came back to have their designs effaced; When they did, it was usually those who had a lady's name tattooed on the skin, and wished to have it removed. Unfortunately tho process of removal A is yory difficult, if not impossible. ™ and it is far safer to content oneself with having the name imprinted only on tlujieart in such cases, ns Queen Miry did that of Calais. >S'ome' of the designs tattooed by tho artist in question are very olaborate and in. somo cases people are foolish enough to have nearly the whole body covered Tho professor also works in various colors-carmine, sky blue, brown, purplo and green, as well as the common black and red to which less distinguished operators confine themx' selves. The charges of this supery* lative man range from fivo shillings for a simple monogram or crest, to as much as £2O. He has the advantage of bis barbarian rivals la the South Sea Islands or Japan, in asniucli as he is able by invoking the aid of science, in the shape of an injection of cocaine, to make the operation painless, or nearly so. The existenco of such a business in tho world's metroplis is another striking instance of the amount offolly which still afflicts mankind—even that portion of it which prides itself most 4kwn modern advancement,

The Zouave. One of the n,ost characteristic of tho uniforms worn by Fronch soldiers is about tbo to disappear. Its disadvantages hnvj become obvious, , and the occasion fur it has passed away, Tho heavy knickcrbocken ot the Zouavo troops will take the memories of some readers back to the , days when the French were allies and fe the Russians our foes. It was indeed dnrinc; the Crimean campagn that we first made practical acquaintance with them. Fivo and thirty yens ago Paris seemed twice as far from London as it is now. Wo hod not our present knowledgo of French affairs, and wc lud not our present interest. Tho war nnd the events which followed the campaign soon roado tho Zouavo costume rather familiar to us, For tho Fwch themselves it had a much earlier dale, and its adoption due almost, directly to the counsels of the great Napoleon, it was in August, 179!), that Bonaparte, having the Army in Egypt, and handing over ils command to Klober gave him certain written instructions on the defence of the country and on the equipmen tof the troops. For the latter he advised a gradual conformity to Eastern dross, tho suppression of the existing stiff head gear, and of the "straight trousers" then worn by the French soldiers, Years afterwerds,

when tho SSonavo uniform was /v. designed by Marshal Clauzet, this =jjfr advice was remembered and noted upon. In the lapse of nearly a century it has served its purposes and survived its use, Railways and telegraph wires supersedes the influences of sentiment nnd bring things to the dead level of mere utility. Tho wide trousers of tho Zouave don't stand ',ho test. 80 they have been condemned and taken in.

Intoxication by Naphtha. A Boston letter in the Chicago says:-Tho latest female vice is intoxication by naphtha, It is not swallowed, The fumes of it are simply inhaled, inducing, so the inebriates say, a particularly agreeable exhilaration Not even hasheesh, it 13 undertsood, begets more fascinating dreams or more gorgeous visions of splendour, Tho girls in tho rubber factories, of which there are a great number in Boston and its neighbourhood, aro greatly addicted to this novel form 01 drunkenness. In such establishments naphtha is used in enormous quantities to cleanse the rubher, being kept in big boilers

-4» , closed ugainst the air. To the valves ■& of these boilers the young women •7 employes readily obtain access ami breathe the exhilaration therefrom some unlucky accident having betrayed to a chanco experimenter the abominable secret. The notion is said to have been brought originally

from Germany by emigrant laborers in petticoats. Now the mnnufacUirau W purpose to put a stop to the evil by keeping the valves carefully locked.

A Harrowing Kevelation. A harrowing revelation has just been made by a former Antwerp merchant, Julius Klingbdil, concerning the much lauded "Colony of Nouva Gernmnia," founded by one Dr Forstcr, in Paraguay, South America, The boasted "New Germany" turns out to bo a mere trap for unfortunato emigrants. The "primeval forests" aro miserable scrub and brushwood, The 'Splendid fruits" aro a lew wretched pines, bananas, melons, and peaches, of

worthless quality, which can be

grown only with the greatest difficulty. JL Tho "noble meadow lands" aro wide " wastes, broken by morasses and lagoons, which can often bo crossed only with danger to life. Tho ground is so particularly sterile that coffee, . tobacco, cotton and sugar do notyield even a moderate return. The

"friendly Indians" aro a filthy and

j- degraded race. The climate is '*s' abominable, with incredible excesses of heat and cold, which cause fever and sores. Tho deluded colonists havo for their wretched faro only madioc, beans and maize, Lottcrs full of shocking details, are quoted from some of these victims of puff and and misrepresentation, Tho old take of El Dorado over again.

Animal Wool is the material devised by tiaturo for animal covering, and possesses as the slifflplcst experiments will prove, the valauble quality of not attracting or retaining the noxious, mal-odorous matters which the nnimal body exhales. Moreover, being a slow conductor of heat, Animal Wool does not chill, oven when (lamp. Therefore, ovevy one should secure a selection of our pure Flannels at Te Aro House, Wellington. Our Flannels whether ol English or Colonial Manufacture arc all pure wool froms the best looms, The manufacturers have a well-earned reputation to maintain and our own prestige has been won by selling the best goods at the lowest possible prices. Wohave.no liking for "rubbish" of any sort, least of all in Flannels. We offer nothing but what is of sterling value at To ... Aro House, Wellington.