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than one of you, dowbtless, has on the arm or on the breast sonae red or 

 blue figure representing a heart pierced, two swords crossed, an anchor, 

 or a hammer, symbols of your profession. 



Along with these tattooings incrusted in the skin by various pro- 

 cesses, we may place also the paintings. Here, again, is a means of 

 embellishing that every people has practiced and practices still. Some- 



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times these paintings have precise significations ; there are the paint- 

 ings of war, the paintings of peace, the paintings of fetes, etc. We 

 do not go so far ; but we must not forget that the most civilized Eu- 

 ropeans have painted and still paint the countenance. Our grand- 

 mothers habitually used white, and, above all, red ; they put on patches, 

 that is to say, small rounds of court-plaster to give beauty to the skin 

 by contrast. And to-day, you know, our fashionable women tint 

 themselves so well that a word has been invented on this subject. So 



