Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-06-09

servant as pretty Tow down. I have
told him that the tipping habit is Just
as bad In America as In France, but
he says in America the servant acts
as though he never had such thought
as getting tip, and when you give
him quarter or other tip he looks
puzzled, as though he 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 it in trust, to be
given to some deserving person at the
tirst opportunity, and then he smiles,
and gets away, and blows in the tip
for something wet and strong.
/ told dad If he would just ignore
the servants, as though he did not I'M
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 tip. Well, don't know what
the servants did to our baggage, but
they must have marked it with a
smallpox sign, or something, for no
body would touch 1t 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 it 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 a guide who could talk
, New Orleans English and he said it
would cost three dollars to square it
with the servants at the hotel, and
have the boycott removed from our
baggage, and dad paid it, and now he
coughs up a tip every time he sees
servant look at him. He pays when
he goes in restaurant and when he
comes out, and says he Is cured OF
trying to reform the customs OF any
body else's 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 and
| malt liquors in his time, but don't
think he ever INDUCED much in cham
| payne at three or four dollars bot
tie at home. Maybe he has been saw
ing himself up till he got over here
where champagne Is cheap and II
takes several quarts to make you SET
angels. The guide took US to one o.
these bullyyards, where there are ia
bles out on the sidewalk, and yo'
can eat and drink and look at tn
dukes and counts and dutchesses ant
things promenading up and down
flirting like sin, and we sat down t.
table and ordered things to eat AM
drink, and dad looked like Uncle Sam
and felt his oats.
| When he had drank a few thimble
fuls of absinthe. and some champagne
and eat q plateful of frogs. he wa
lust ripe for trouble. A woman an
man at an adjoining table had on
of these white dogs that is sheare
like hedge fence, with spots OF lon
hair left on in places, and dad coaxe
the dog over to our table and bega
to feed him frogs legs, and the Won
an began to talk French out loud, an
look cross at dad, and the count the
was with her came over to our tabl
and looked at dad in tone Of voie
that meant trouble, and said som
thing sassy, and the guide said II
man wanted to fight duel because da
had contaminated the woman's dol
and dad got mad and offered to wiz
out the whole place, and he got U
with a champagne bottle and locke
defiance at the count. and the waiter
began to scatter, when the woma