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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15456, 19 September 1914, Page 3

The local Health Authorities at Greymoutli, states the Press Association., are now moving in the direction of taking extra precautionary measures to stamp out scai'!et fever, the first case of u'hich was reported m this district nine months ago. At present there nro ten cases in hospital and six to bo admitted. There have been two cases of diphtheria, on.o with fatal results. Ch'klren are principally affected by both diseases.

THE NINE TAILORS. I The story is told somewhat in the following way:— Nine tailors were working together in a warm comfortable room; the .season was mid-winter, and all without was s'cet, snow, and bitter cold. A poor, hungry, ill-clad tramp, knocked at the workshop doofj and solicited alms, saying. lie had walked many a mile, and was faint for lack of warmth and food. The kindly tailors not only shared their meal with him, but sent him away rejoising. with a few pence in his pocket, and ho exclaimed gratefully "You have made a man of me!" In nine tailors "make a man" in this sense, so much the more to their credit. ANOTHER STORY. 1 Tn" 1742 an orphan bov applied for alms at a fashionable tailor's shop in London, in which some journeymen were employed. Hi 3 interesting appearance opened the hearts of the gentlemen of the cloth, who immediately contributed nine shillings for the relief of the little stranger. With this capital our grateful hero purchased fruit, which he retailed at a profit. Time passed on, and wealth and honour smiled upon the young tradesman, so that when he set up his carriage, instead of troubling the Hcarlds' College for a crest he painted the following motto on the panel: "Nine tailors made me a man." As far back as 1682, in a book called "Grammatical Drollery," one of these stories made it appearance in a versified form: — "There is a proverb which has been of old, And many men have likewise been so told, To the discredit of the taylord' trade. Nine taylors goo to make a man, they say. But for their credit I'll unriddle it t' yee; A draper once fell into povertie, Nino taylors joined their purees together then, To set him up, and make him a man agen." —Chambers' Journal, May, 1572. 11. S. LAMB and CO., THE TAILORS. Church Street, New Season's Good* have arrived.