Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30

performers engagement are not forthcom-
ing, from CALI boy to spotlight thrower. the
next gagement that unlucky performer
plays at this particular house is filed with
so many stage accidents from having the
stage cat come on the scene when the
heroine is crying for bread, or doing the
pathetic along some line, to the sudden fail
ure of the spotlight to work, that the mis-
cradle performer surrenders hands down,
and gives much of his or her salary for
protection against future accidents of the
kind.
THE complaints of travellers in this coun-
try augment instead of decrease each year.
If we have to endure the tipping evil. 1t is
too bad that some graduated scale OF ices
cannot be mutually agreed upon here be-
tween traveller guest and servitor, as is
the case in Europe. Here one man will give
fifty and another ten cents for the same
service, but in Europe there is regulation
and fixed extorton, usually small and
graded, according to performance. and to
this custom both traveller and guest ac-
cord, unless he be an American, when he
always overpays.
home theorist to preach that the traveller or
the guest Is himself to blame for yielding
to the audactous and Outlines insulting de-
mands Of the professional tip artist. have
tried 1t my travels, and l have been
compelled to yield not be suitably served.
1t seems to me from my experience that
Americans should, both at home and
abroad. lessen the size of their hold-up con
to me that concerted action, by the very
nature of things, is impossible except along
some line as this suggests. 1t Is too bad to
be obliged to surrender to the highwaymen
we meet in short jackets in hotels, and to
other tip buccaneers, but 1t looks like the
inevitable.
The Anti-Treating Crusade.
LAS traveller I consider the anti-treating
crusade some time ago started to be one of
the best general movements to curtail the
drinking habit which has been suggested as
a possible remedy for this evil. for evil it
often amounts to. Men. especially after Of
fee hours. when on their way home. will
stop in cafe for single drink Meeting
friends there the treating begins, and men.
against their judgment and Outlines their
will. find that they are in half dozen
drinks they didn't want, and out of pocket
correspOndingly.
LAS these occasions are usually between
meals, when the stomach is empty. the ef-
feet of liquor is three times as powerful as
upon full stomach and much involuntary
moral courage to announce that he is a
member Of an anti-treating society. pays
for his round and quits the place. his decli-
nation of further drinking should be ac-
cepted and his fortitude respected. but he
is indeed a man of moral courage to take
such a stand. Were there many such men,
however, their steadfast example would
quickly be followed by other men of
toward practical and not theoretical tenn
perance.
Another element of this treating abuse
lies with the younger generation. Many Of
our younger blades would not consider 1t
manly to adopt such strong minded
stand But in this. Of course. they are mis-
taken. for 1t would be good evidence that
young man is indeed man who would thus
assert his manly independence. and act out
his own individual volition, Irrespective of
the opinions Of other men who may be his
friends-so long as his money lasted"