The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-05-19
has paid his bin. with everything

charged extra and the servants line
mp and look appealingly. or mad, as
Tho case may be. dad Is tue hardest
man 70 loosen that ever was. but II
they seem 20 look the other way. and
not. apparently, care whether they get
cent or not. dad would 20 and hunt
them up. and divide his roll with
them. Dad Is not what you would
call tight wad," II you let him
shed his money normally, when he
feels the loosening coming on. but you
try TO worH him by bowling and cring
ing. and his American spirit gets the
better Of him. and he looks upon the \
servant as pretty low down. have I
told him that the tipping habit Is just I
as bad in America as in France, but
he says in America the servant acts
as though he never had such thought
as getting a tip and when you give
him quarter or other tip he looks
puzzled. as though be did not just
recall what he had done to merit such
treatment, but finally puts the money
in his pocket with an air as though
he would accept 1t in trust, to be
given TO some deserving person at the
\ first opportunity. and then he smiles,
and gets away, and blows in the tip
4 for something wet and strong
told DAD if he would just ignore
the servants, as though he did not un-
derstand that they expected tip, that
he would be all right, SO when we got
ready TO move from the hotel TO pri-
vate rooms dad never gave any serV-
ant a TIP. Well, ! don't know what
the servants did TO our baggage, but
they must have marked it with
smallpox sign, or something, for no
body would touch it for several hours,
but finally baggage man took 1t and
started for our apartments, and got
lost. and didn't show up for two days.
and when il was finally landed on the
sidewalk nobody would carry it up
stairs, and dad and had to lug it up
two flights. and | thought dad would
have apoplexy
We found guide who could talk
New Orleans English and he said II
would cost three dollars TO square 1t
with the servants al the hotel, and
have the boycott removed from our
baggage. and dad paid IL, and now he
coughs up tip every time he sees a
servant look at him He pays when
he goes in restaurant and when he
P comes out. and says he Is cured OIL
T trying TO reform the customs OF any
body elses country.
We have engaged guide to stay
with us day and night The GUIDE
took us out for a bat last night and
? dad had the time Of his life. Dad has
!, drank good deal OF spurious anC
4 malt liquors in his time, but don
, think he ever INDUCED much in cham
= pagne at three or four dollars bot
tie al home Maybe he has been say
I ing himself up till he got over here
: where champagne is cheap and
y takes several quarts 20 make you SCI
: angels. The guide took Us TO one 0
Z these bullyvards. where there are ia
y bles out on the sidewalk. and yol
y can eat and drink and look at tn
~ dukes and counts and dutchesses an
4 things promenading mp and doWr
u flirting like sin, and We sat down I
y a table and ordered things TO eat an
= drink. and dad looked like Uncle SAN
!. and felt his oats.
Z When he had drank few thimblt
:" fuls OF absinthe. and some champagne
!, aud eat a plateful OF frogs, he wa
lust ripe for trouble. A woman an
;. a man at an adjoining table had on
= OF these white dogs that is sheare
II like hedge fence. with spots Of Ion
4 hair left on in places. and dad coaNe
- the dog over 10 our table and bega
- 10 feed him frogs legs. and the won
an began to talk French out loud an
look cross at dad. and the count th'
y was with her came over to our tan
and looked at dad in tone OF VOC
that meant trouble. and said som
- thing sassy. and the guide said u
man wanted TO fight duel because ola
~ had contaminated the woman's DO
and dad got mad and offered to vii
!" ont the whole place. and he got
- with a champagne bottle and look'
defiance at the count. and the waite
'N harar ~ scatter when the wOms