After each painted dial their paint brush would lose its shape, so after each time they used their brush they were encouraged to touch their radium covered paint brushes to their mouths to fix them to a perfect point once again. For fun, the young women would also paint their nails, face, and teeth with the radium they had and find a dark room to be in to make faces at each other just for laughs on their free time. Within months, the effects of the radium began to take place in them. They could stand outside at night and actually glow-in-the-dark, not nearly like a glow stick, but enough for people to notice.
1920 was when women began to notice their sicknesses within the plant. As the women got sick, most of them died within the next decade.
1920 was when women began to notice their sicknesses within the plant. As the women got sick, most of them died within the next decade.