Show TATOI t IN THE A rits 1111 III y A N D f N 1 aay i HA IT IS NOW SAID TO BE ON j IT ff THE INCREASE 1 4 I 1 r one in every three men select a fe ll 11 I 1 male mal design and a few in f decent subjects 1 washington Ar ashington april 23 tattooing in th the navy as Sh ownby the records of th le receiving ship independence ceIs Is the top topic C of an interesting contribution to the current issue of the united S states ta t es i inacy nai r medical 1 bulletin contributed by sur surgeon 0 n ammon farinholt Ta Fa renholt it says while tattooing originated as an ad adornment of uncivilized peoples it Is far farless I 1 less common among them today th thai a it was formerly partly through the influence nf luence of missionaries of public se sen a ciment ament and government interfere enc as Is at present the case in japan pa n on the other hand the total extent n of I 1 this habit dr Fa renholt says has probably never been greater than it I 1 icat 11 mt the present time although it ina mabe be there is a slight silent decrease in the per percentage niage of tattooed persons adopting them theida T ea as aa a means of livelihood there is 15 c a marked increase among efio those a who travel and even among those who live at a distance from the influences aces of the sea there is hardly any large city but has one or more professional tattoo oera ers dr renholt fahrenholt Fa examined the enlistment records of 3 men being the enlistments on the Tn independence dependence tor for eight and a halt half yeara it shows that the percentage found lourid tattooed on examination for was 2301 the opinion ionis is expressed that about 60 per cent oatlie persons s who have served over ten years in the navy are tattooed dr fahrenholt Fa renholt says it is not fair to assume from the figures presented that 23 per par cent of all male citizens are tattooed as a considerable proportion of appU cants for enlistment ore are seafaring men ile he was surprised to find so mao man probably 8 per cent of the re ault who are tattooed and who abo denied having been at sevc sea or even having lived li vedin f in seaport downs one of every three men tattooed select a design boroo me part of which Is a female figure so nub han and one per cent khow how inda ind goats coats of antni ana anal national emblems gilson allson heads cruel cruci fixes jerusalem crosses the goddess of liberty ships eagles chgles pigs and apprentice knots were among the tat toped marks noticed I 1 |