TAILORS UNIFORM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume iv, Issue 68, 19 February 1884, Page 2

TAILORS UNIFORM.

For Maiiy' yeara A tlie "War Office people stou,tly . opposed the popular view that "a tailor ' is only the ninth' piftt of a man. The r tailore*whO£Bliß-^ ted had, like other reci'uitSi' to be\lpto the full standard m height and chest measurement. The result - was thafc* some of the smartest then m Her : Majesty's, land forces were' sartorial! artists.* : 'Indeed, we. remember one j regime;^— indifferently knowii-w the " dirty 50th, M br ; the " blind "half-hun-dred/—where discipline, was, seriouslj' :i endangered when Jock' McFarintosh gpJE 'an extra nobbier of rum. Jock •was the handiest tailor m the, corps. , Of, course if;, was ridiculous to see a rieed^in the hands ofa man that could have nuniped 7 a plough or upended a tramqar; bui^he was proud of his profession, arid 'the man that insulted a° tailor. iu.JnS(presence .^asneyer fit for ..much beyond a corner', lied m an incur- 1 ' able asylum "for the 'remainder 6J£ his life. By the number and character of , the cases., which went to the regimental hospital mV th'e mo ; rnipig,'the of grog' Jock hadfratf the night befcreconia' always be roughiy' estimated. Wheti only ten ; or v dozen men were sejeir limping across the Square, .with their 'noses m slings arid their hn'iform' scarcely sufficient for conventional re-' 3 quiremunts, Jock had only had a pint or so of alcohol, and only used his hands. But when the whole of No. 5 com pany was observed .trailing m Indian file toward the infirmary, " with a: couple of ambulance waggons, behind to pick up the' "lame "ducks," you could tell that Uock" had been drinking, that he^iad used. his goose, and that h6 was at present tied with a hawser to a 'fieldrgitn 1 ) outside the , -: guard-room, aA:nd; -this . 'brings < us; back to the; War Office authorities.. By a late circular [it., has been decided that two inches below the regulation height,, arid two inches'short of the standard chest : measuromont, may be enlistedf .jWere 1 Jock McFarintosh alive now, insteadof being 6oiledncos,ily.^nde? .< he daisies ten -ft et. : below; the ( v earthworks; at Rangiriri, with the dozen Maoris lie' had brained to. keep him company, this reflection , on the , profession r ,he , loved 1 : wouldhayo, broken lijs pro. fid liearti ! '