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Show " FAD FCIt TATTOO MARKS I Newport Smatt Set Thinks It DU tlnetlve to Have Their Bodies Decorated. FJ j The very nevwd fml nl Newpnrl I f, is to have the arm nr t'.e lankier f i ! docorntni with a "i:imnl l. l.ttlnu" IhJB" ''design the barbaric rd :id blue of n jvhich brings the beauty of the skin I into strong relief, and the eonUrna I tion occasioned when Newport so- I ! eiely men lirst saw vvuai un-.y thought was an ineradicable lilntntisli i ,, upon the arms or shoulders of their j-f. feminine frieiulu, has given rise Ion ( f great amount of talk on the ri-ikmI ' Biibjeet of tut toning. In the hubbub 1 many carefully concealed' wvrt I have leaked out,-and it has developed - that the number of men who hr.e n V tattoo marks upon their hml'ia are ' , fewer than anybody imagined, .'.ml to '; thoc men so decorated an not A A" among the sailor or laboring clmsc nll'V-.'th-r, either, but are in a re- ' niarkrthly large number of eases of gentle birth and breeding. Most or them acquired the decorations when they were boys out of a spirit of J youthful bravado, and some of them carry souvenirs of adventures of one kind or another in the carefully etched blue or nil designs upon their I arms. |