The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-30
THE TIP AS II IS TAKEN.
Ei1sse Europe Stands suppllant
With Its Ready and Open
Palm Extended
An Institution Which Compels
Study at Rather High Rates
of Tuition.
NOT ! soul In England, From the Queen
Down, Above Taking = Tip
Pennies Big Though.

Not ! soul in England, From the lusea
Down.. Above Taking = Tip
Pennies Big Enough.
ispecial Correspondence of THE INDEPENDENT.
PANS. Jan. l0.-Efste Europe's extended
palm il what most interests and amazes an
American abroad. To the tip, az IL Is
taken here, he San find no parallel athome.
1essan institution which compels stuay;
and tuition rates are high.
America would have to change . good
DIAL 10 conform to European customs IN
this particular.
for waiting upon a customer.
Imagine the sexton in John Halls church
smuggling q stranger into = choice pew TOT
three pence!
IMAGINE q station master in q big Ameri-
can town gratefully accepting two cents for
showing = traveller the shortest way into
town!
Iua,ine 4 New Hampshire farmer allow
ING his children to sing songs for pennies
n nassinp tourists; imagine his vile JOIN
inc in ths discord and hurting shrill curses
after the traveller who remains unmovso oy
il. after the Swiss custom!
IMAGINE an apple seller at Central
mark turning beggar when her stock solo
ont!
Imagine an Adams express agent keeping
hsck two cents in making change and Rrum-
HING nj being compelled to disgor0e!
Imagine an usher in the Chicago Audi
tor;nna changing round for pennies after
showing . party to their seats.
Imagine q Washington help" paying o.
cents to a private soldier who strolls out
with her Sunday afternoon. or 81 TO : COT
poral, or S1.25 to . sergeant, a. shs honoon
l~oussmaids are said to do!
Imagine the baggage smashor OF . back
country railroad in Indiana emitting TO
smash the trunk Of thu traveller who mas
crossed his palm!
Imagine Vandsrbilt-who is the closest
American parallel to q Lux in England
admitting the public to his pistuEs gal
lery at a quarter a head and pockstlnR ths
quarters!
Imagine a Pennsylvania railroad conduc-
tor bowling humbly, hat in hand, to the
dude who has given him a dime, and rsdely
hundlinp into her ear the poor woman who
has no dime to give! Imagine him reserv-
ING two unpaid sections In a sleeping car
from Philadelphia to Chicago for . bride of
25 cents, as a German conductor old an
economical friend of mine!
Imagine the attendants in the Mstropol-
itan museum chasing visitors around Win
unasked suggestions in the hope OF q zee!
Imagine an American omnibus or coach
driver wsylaying every passenger 1or
drink money" at the end OF . drlye:
Imagine the clerk in a left luggage"
Office asking whatever you please. sir, for
taking care of a parcel when the regular
charge is posted outside!
IMAGINE MIR. Wanamaker's postofics
clerks trying to cheat the public, or the
ticket sellers IN the G hs oensfa ~ a tbs
s'making mistakes" In the cnanee 10 snelr
own advantage!
Imagine a kansas City carpenter taking a
praxent Of the magnificent sum of two cents
and a half for giving a better dressed man
"lightg'
expectinQ one or two cents for himself
eyarv time he pours out a drink for q Gus
Imagine 4 Philadelphia city clerk accept
ing a thrse-csnt fee for giving q stranger q
permit to view the public building!
Imagine the man st tho window" IN an
American newspaper Office adding a few
cents daily to his income by taking coppers
from people who have questions to asks! T.
Imagine \ policeman who would take ono
cent for directing a traveller to the nearest
letter box!
if a pei o is gifted with q sufficiently
lively intellect to imagine all those things
coming to pass in America, not as s1cep-
tional instances. but as common, everyday
occurrences, he can form some faint con-
ception of what a Europeanized American
would be like. And it wouldn't suit him SO
we'll rs the present variety. The American
sovereign, as Prof. sumner says, cannot
take tips. If he takes them he ceases to be
a sovereign and becomes \ f1unkey.
Giving tips in Europe is an exact sciencs.
the radiments OF which, at least, every
traveller ought to acquire. Long experiences
has made the natives adept. 1t is only the
Americans who go about reeklsssly ainginR
away ahillinga, francs and marks where only
COOPER ia required. In Queenstown and
Liverpool, where most of the summer tour
lists land, all the hotel walters and porters
are m%illionaires. They retire early to their
country estates and enjoy their f~ortunsl
before they have time to grow gray-headed.
landed. Iy the time he has reached Swift.
zsrland or Italy, which il as far as he usually
gets, HIS rapidly shrinking purse teaches
him to be q little moro eiroumspeot. II
Italy and Switzerland and on the Rhine this
swallow-tail-coated jugglera of soup plates
E0b Wc0AuAy ASc0 HA~
Every one ever here understands this pro
pensity of American travellers to give biz
fesa upon first landing. Chester ID the frs
city in England usually visited by the
tourist, and the fees for seeing the rathet
second rate cathedral there amount Il
something like three shillings. No othsl
English cathedral costs anything like 81
much. The thrifty Chester people act OF
tho ecclesiastical doctrine of charging wha
the traffic will bear and get Il big diocesan
revenue from the swarms of visitors.
II don't believe there's a soul in England
who won't take a shilling, from tho queer
down." said a casual acquaintance to me il
Liverpool once. II wish | knew how mucl
! ought to give these leeches. If have t,
fork over u shilling every time one of then
does anything for me I'll go home deaf
broke ia a week. I've tried giving ZEN
nothing, and that don't work either; i
they don't see what they want they ask TO
it,"
"Try pennies" said an experienced trav
sler. laconically.
"Pennies?"
'Yes. pennies. singly or in combination
ono for the chambernaid, two for tn
boots three for the waiter, and so on
That's English style"
The psrplexed one looked relieved. rs
thsrs's NO one in England who will rofus
%twopance if he can't got a shilling" b
asked.
'.Precisely,' was the answer. son til
continent, if you go there, even smslle
fees will answer A Frcnchman will Civ
his waiter ten centim ss-thet'. two cent?
for serving dinner in 4 s~scond-claas restxu
rant or four or five cents in a trst-clGss on