The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-25

!" Dngi@nu' Tor instance, ne Will tip every
n h goes near him. The inevitable
result 10 that many who have no service
70 perform make a pretence Of doing 90 in
order 10 capture q share.
IL 10 quite unnecessary 10 tip any one
save your individual waiter in an
English restaurant. In your hotel II you
sat there regularly IL is we'll TO give a mod
crate gratuity to the head waiter. just a.
you would in an American house. but Il 10
absurd to offer him q sovereign. He will
be satisfied with Ave shillings and will not
regard himself az badly treated II he gets
half q crown. OF course. tho size Of the
tip 10 governed somewhat by the character
OF the hotel or restaurant.
In Italy the ann custom will answer
II you go to q restaurant for a single meal
you need not pay any attention to the head
waiter. Pay your wi waiter and no one
else. Give him about 10 per cent. Of the
bill. just as you would In New York. In
Austria, however. you will find that there
10 a different system. When you seat
yourself In q restaurant there the head
waiter takes your order and that Is the last
you see OF him till you call for your bill,
when he appears once more.
Your table 10 served by the -speisetrager.'
or meal waiter. He brings the viands
which you have ordered through the head
waiter. The dishes are removed and the
beverages served by q third person. the boy
sometimes called the piccolo. When you
finish o must tip all three Of them. But
you do not necessarily have to give moro
than II you had been attended by one.
You simply divide 10 per cent. OF your bill
into three parts. Of which tho third 10 .
little smaller than the other two. This
third part you give to tho piooolo. The
head waiter n tho speisetrager get tho
other two.
In Germany one soon learns that there
is a notable difference between the wine
restaurants and the beer restaurants.
When you look at the pages Of Baedeker
you find q list Of the restaurants Of each
kind in such cities a. Berlin or Dresden,
but there In nothing to give you any satisfy-
ing information az to the difference between
the two species. To a New Yorker this In
most easily explained by saying that it in
like the difference which exists here between
a German eating place and one that is not
German.
In the former you can almost invariably
get beer on draught; In the latter you can
almost as invariably get it only in bottles.
h German beer restaurant rs an eating
house in which the staple beverageisdraught
beer. You can get wines, but usually only
Of the m varieties. A wine restau-
rant is one in which you are expected to
order wine with your meal. Often you
cannot get beer at all, and when you can
get IL It costs you about three times as
much as il would in a beer restaurant.
The bill Of fare is usually somewhat more
expensive in a wine restaurant than In Q
beer house but il is seldom any better.
In a certain hotel in NOrnberg this writer
once made the error OF ordering beer. IL
was a rainy night and he was tired, and
the hotel looked inviting. The beer was
promptly forthcoming. II arrived in a small
pitcher and was poured into a glass about
one-third larger than a claret glass. That
pitcher contained just four Of these glasses
and 1t cost q mark. The same quantity
would ave been served in a beer house
a. one drink costing four cents.
The traveller who does not drink beer
in Germany makes a mistake, for II his
acquaintance with this beverage has been
previously confined to the American prod
uct he has something to learn. Excellent
beer is made in this country, but the Ger
man beer 10 a different drink. and not
In Germany alone is beer a joy, for Bohemia
has her own particular nectar. The good
city Of Prague lies not distant from the
tourist path, and il the traveller cares
nsught for the Hradschin, the diamond
monstrant Of our lady Of Loretto, the street
Of the alchemists, the first soil Of the Thirty
Years war and the manufacture OF mar
vellous glass products, he can at least HE
him to the Deutsches Haus in the Graben
and drink Pilsener beer such as no man
can drink elsewhere outside of Paradise.
About eating in London il is hardly worth
while to say much, for where the traveller
is acquainted with the language he is not
afraid to enter strange places and he 500
learns for himself. In London n can
eat at any price, just as he q in New York.
There are expensive table d'h6tes and high
priced A Ia carte restaurants, but there are
also excellent eating places Of good ser
vice and moderate cost.
There is a little dodge in the matter Of
luncheons that many Americans appear
to miss. In . large number OF mi and
small hotels In and o London there
is a midday meal called dinner OF the
joint" A huge roast Of some sort is pre-
pared and you are served with a portion,
cut at a side table in the eating room,
accompanied by two or three vegetables.
| The cost 10 small and the repast when topped
with a mug Of ale 10 altogether comforting
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On the Continent one should eat as the ma
tives do. Paris 10 the home Of the table
d'hote. and you can find one at any price
you choose to pay. The cheaper ones in
clude a mail bottle OF red acid called wine.
Temper this with some water and il 10 not
20 bad. When you leave Paris follow the
old and neglected rule OF drinking the wine
OF the country. When you are in the Macon
district drink Macon. When you are in
the Bordeaux district drink Bordeaux.
Especially in Italy is thisa good rule TO fol-
low, FOR throughout that delightful and local
wines are made, and zach has Its peculiar
characteristics II you are at Lake Locrino
outside Naples drink Palermo. You will
never get it like that anywhere else. Drink
Capri when you are at Capri. and when you
are at Sorrento drink Sorrento.
When you 20 north forget the southern
wines. At Orvieto drink Montapulciano,
and in Milan drink the local Chianti. Il 10
foolish to travel through Italian hotels order
ing French claret or sauterne simply be-
cause they cost more than the local wines.
There is no better wine in the world than the
Capri, but you must drink II at Capri. 1t
viii not bear transportation even across the
Bay Of Naples. You can get it in New York,
| but il you are wise you will not.
Even in Switzerland delicioua local wines