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Show 10K The Salt Late Tribune Thursday, November 24, 1383 Epidermal Etcher Will Needle Anyone, If They Have the Time and Money - picking and choosing from a sheet of designs tacked on an opposite wall. One is Buddys favorite, a clipper ship under full sail. It costs three figures. Women and Tattoos Women have always been tattooed, says Buddy, buzzing away. Churchills mother had one, they say. About 10 years ago it became fashionable. They like roses and butterflies. Usually on the back of the shoulder, although I once did a snake on a lady. Elsewhere. Buddy is filling in the eagle from dabs of red, blue and yellow on a pallette, a little block of wood, a new one for each customer. He finishes up with a fat yellow football in the eagles grasping talons. The lad from B.U. now has a screaming eagle just below his waterline. If, on mature consideration, be gives up rugby for basketball, Buddy could alter the ball. He probably can help someone who has changed his allegiance from Mom to Marie or a mermaid swimming around an anchor. But no erasing. At Buddys, a card laid is a card played. He wipes off the eagle with alcohol and puts a bandage on the hip. Youll have scabs, like from a rose thorn scratch. Dont pick em. Go an Itch to 6 EDITORS NOTE etched? Buddy Mott can scratch It. On tew of the remaining epidermal etchers tattoolst to you, sailor Buddy needles everything from Mom" to a a from battleship to a mermaid, baseball. By Sid Moody Associated Press Writer NEWPORT, R.I. If your beauty isnt skin deep, theres always Buddy - Mott You got the time, and the money, hell turn your blank exterior into a Persian rug, a jungle of snarling cats or even a nice sea battle. Take yer choice. Buddys Tattoo Shop is a final vestige of what used to be a perfectly good, disreputable waterfront providing the sailor with gin, women and MOM stenciled in magenta on the forearm. Once there were seven epidermal etchers in Newport Then, in 1975, the U.S. Navy took the fleet elsewhere. Grog shops became shell shoppes and ice cream parlors. Buddy nonetheless survives. Buddy couldnt care less as he opens his tattoo parlor at 7 p.m. on a recent Monday night Within minutes there's a waiting line, including several women giggling like theyre buying their first bra. A sign reassures them: Privacy for the Ladies. Buddy says he puts on dark glasses if his duties take him to restricted areas. Naw, it dont hurt No more than a sunburn or a basketball floor burn." Roseanne's husband concurs. I try Larder, says Buddy. After all, the guy's gonna be wearing this the rest of his life. Don't wash the kids except with soap and water until the scabs are gone. Next Buddy used to double as a sign painter, but now concentrates on the tattoo parlor. I lock the door at 11 p.m. After 11, you start getting drunks, and I dont need the aggravation. People move too much when theyre bombed. If someone rattles the door after 11 and is sober, 111 do in '48, 50. I could draw. Probably got it from my mother. She painted I taught myself. Pinned the instructions on the guy's shirt and went to work. You gotta be able to draw. A rugby player from Boston University stretches out on three chairs. He wants a screaming eagle clutching a rugby ball right there on his Jill Hendrickson Associated Press Writer TOKYO Japanese women are living longer but many are altering their middle years with feelings of By Its hip. Here? Yeah." it A fat football. Got laces? Yeah. Got the whole forearm. You Buddy takes a plastic sheet out of his files and rubs charcoal dust into want sideboards on the names? the inscribed outline of a hopping Yeah. mad eagle. He presses it to the cusRoseannes kids? tomers hip. With a fresh needle Yeah, and mine. he begins foljust that a needle Need room for a fourth? lowing the outline with what looks Naw. Thems IT. like and sounds like a homemade dentists drill. Bzzzzz. Dont move, says Buddy. The Buddy makes him write out the names to avoid any misspelling. rugger is trying to see whats happening to him. His sidekicks from Make a mistake and we gotta B.U. look on through the window of buddys cubicle. No privacy for the throw the arm away. gents. The ladies are discreetly Buddy, 58, chatters as he works. its small. But most people who get tattooed are sober. They just like to say they were bombed as an ex it if SMKiUM P(fU Fhuio Newport, RJ. Mott always comforts customers saying that, Naw, it dont hurt. cuse when they get home. I tattoo at night because every- one is working during the day. If the barbers got smart, theyd work nights, too. Next Japanese Women Bored After Kids Grow Up Next Draws the Shade one of the ladies. True to his word, Buddy draws a shade over the window and shuts an accordion door. Buzzzz. Giggle. Buzzzzzz. She emerges. Her friends surround her. No, she cant show them HERE. Lets go over to my place. They leave, excited. Next." One It's a workman in a arm has already been dedicated to Roseanne. Now he wants Robert, Eddie and Mikie on the other arm. -A- Young lady has a cowgirl tattoo engraved on her leg in Buddy Motts tattoo store in Culturally Superfluous Next has a panther thats been too long in the sun and needs some retouching, especially the yellow. Buddy refers him to his daughter in the next room who's learning the business. started tattooing Good. Sun wont hit it and fade Whats a rugby ball look like? 50-bu- Next" Taught Myself I Hes got the kind of face, the sidewalk smarts, that could be behind Archie Bunker's bar. I guess the weirdest tattoo I ever did was on a guy wanted a ham sandwich on his leg. It was on a bet I asked him did he want it with a bite in it He said yeah. Tattoo was a 820 bite out of the 50, too. emptiness and inadequacy, according to a government study. The mental health study covering 1,523 housewives found that in the next few years the average Japanese females lifespan may increase to beyond 80 years but it said that when they reach them late thirties they are susceptible to depression, a condition that reaches a crucial stage between the ages of 41 and 45. Dr. Yoshiko Ikeda of the National Institute of Healths Child Mental Health Division said the two-yeresults of what will be a three-yea-r study show that women in this age bracket tend to feel useless, unmotivated and unfulfilled. Before World War II, few Japanese women encountered this problem. They were usually past 40 when their youngest child entered elementary school, and their lifespan was much shorter, she said, Care for Graodkids Also, in an age when the extended family was still the rule, those who did live to a ripe old age could occupy their time caring for their grandchildren. With todays nuclear family, middle-age women with decades left in ar , Vetoes for toistessS Boston life are robbed of their main function as their children become more independent. Many Japanese women still base their identity on their role in the home," Ms. Ikeda said in an interview. And when their duties as mother and homemaker start decreasing, they begin to founder. Most in the middle-ag- e group were unable to pursue higher education in them youth and are thus unqualified to take on meaningful work when them children leave home. Cant Find Work Many can t find worthwhile jobs anyway, especially with Japan's lifetime employment system, Ms. Ikeda said. Japanese men traditionally stay with the same company all their working lives. Women may work for a few years after school, but often quit when they are married or have children. At the same time, Japanese society tends to downplay the value of housewives work, Ms. Ikeda added, noting the derogatory term san shoku hirone-isuthree meals to describe and an afternoon nap their work at home. An increasing number of women do look for jobs after their children grow up, but are often relegated to part-timwork. ki low-pai- e, d The middle-ag- e blues has contributed to the sharp growth of culture centers education facilities that specialize in courses in such fields as languages, flower arranging or cooking. Be and relief sides offering from boredom, the centers. Often run by department stores or media organizations, also serve as social outlets. self-estee- Dentsu Inc., Japans largest advertising agency, estimates Japanese housewives average seven hours of free time a day. According to Dentsus figures there are 2.8 million students attending government-sponsore- d 400,000 culture centers and at more expensive private institutions. 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