Show SALVATION OF TATTOOED MAN HAN A man who had been Injured In a street accident in New York the other i day was sas removed remo to a n hospital and put putI under the care of ot a a. physician The latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- I I ter was apparently suffering from Crom the appendicitis habit for tor after a hasty examination he decided that the patient patient patient pa pa- tient was a a. victim of this popular disease disease disease dis dis- ease and ordered that he bo be operated on onal at al once Accordingly the he un unconscious man wa waS wasi removed to th the pirating operating room and stripped Across his chest was seen tattooed in plainly legible letters letters letters let let- this touching notice In case of or accident dont don't operate for appendicitis It has been removed remo twice already The operation was not performed Some years cars ago there sprung sprung- Into beInS' beInS being being be be- ing InS a 3 popular prejudice ag against the custom of or tattooing on the ground that it was a a. relic of ot barbarism a a. cheap side show devise or a cruel tribute fo to vanity That was before the appendicitis appendicitis appendicitis craze In these modern days of or ours when no man can properly be con considered In the swim who ha has not had his appendix removed or or at least If tc this pleasing performance has hns been omitted is not painfully aw aware of the presence of the troublesome some organ the situation has changed It would have been humiliating humiliating- In the tho extreme for Cor the Injured man man man-It If ho survived long enough to know kno anything about the affair to affaIr to find himself awakened awaken to the disheartening consciousness that tat t he ha had for the third time been deprived of I the sough much much sought t-atter t appendix Possibly Pos Poe sibly tattooing Is not destined always to be regarded as a a. of oc barbarism after all If It the present appendicitis craze continues to Increase In popularity popular popular- ity and Intensity it will sill only be a n. question of time when no man nan will feel himself thoroughly safe without a Il non non- erasable tattooed motto across lib Iris cheat chest hands hands of off operations for or appendicitis ap ape barred Can It it be that the sufferer In New York Is the pioneer In Ina Inn ina a n great discovery and that by emulatIng emulating emulating ing his u user use o of oC a a. formerly despised device de de- de- de Ico vice the tattooed warning men In danger danger danger dan dan- dan dan- ger of 1 being eln run un over o by street treet cars ears or having their heads bruised in a street brawl ma may make mako th themselves m forever safe from outrage at the hands of ot well web meaning but anxious young oung physicians In In public hospitals hospitals Cincinnati Cincinnati Times Star |