The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-02-14

checked in a hundred gallons OF
cream not more than twenty minutes
ago." With genuine embarrassment
the new recruit replied: "Oh, I
didn't know you were the manager;
I'll bring 1t at once, SIR" The motive
was to please certain regular custom
ers of the dining room, who made
practice of tipping, by keeping lib
eral quantity of cream in reserve for
them, giving ordinary patrons milk
with their coffee.
The BARRIERS In the large establish
ments of the cities are also we'll or
ganized for securing tips. Most of
them work on percentage and have
all kinds of extra things they try to
sell each customer. The man who
does not give ten cents above the
regular tariff is an unwelcome Gus
toner in most of the big shops. The
up to date barber "educates" his
customers to the idea of tipping. He
begins a friendly line of talk and
tells you confidentially that things
are going pretty bad with him.. He
will likely say: "Do you have any
idea what wages they pay in this
place? They pay so little that IL it
were not for the tips we get we could
not pay rent and provide for our fam
lilies. or course, nearly everybody
that comes in here gives us some
thing, SO we manage to worry along" F"
BY such means the barber makes his
customer understand that something
extra is expected. IL good "edu-
Gator" opens up on you and you fail
to take the hint, you had better look
for another shop.
| A dodge which is worked with uni
versal success by many crafty ton
sorial artists is the soiled towel trick.
IN order to induce his customers to
buy shampoos he keeps a towel at
hand the corner of which is very
grimy. When you get in his chair
he passes this over your head, then
shows you the dirt, which did not
come from your hair at all, but of
the heel of his boot. AS he flashes
the soiled towel he will say: Lots
of dirt In your hair. Better let me
wash 1t out" and in nine cases out OF
ten the unsuspecting victim will say
''go ahead" when he probably doesn't
need shampoo at all.
Once when the writer was discuss
ing tips with foreigner he made the
following explanation of why 1t is
done in Europe: 1T is merely lit.
tie cash concession made to men who
have to labor at tasks not quite
worthy Of human dignity. 1t is not
If you think of 1t, quite worthy oi
human dignity that a man should
spend his life in setting down baked
meats ON a board for other men t.
eat. This is why we have invented
tips, to reconcile men to perform
menial offices with an appearance o.
contentment."
Any self-respecting man who
works for his living ought to resent
such an attitude as this. Homes
labor of any kind, even of persona
character, can be dignified IL it Il
done In dignified way.
The functions of the waiter anC
the barber are necessary parts OF ou
living. We are all more or less de
pendent on one another, and the mos
menial service is respectable IL don,
In a respectable manner. Here is ;
chance for organized labor to asser
itself. Receiving chance gratuitiel
in the place of salaries is neither dig
nified nor profitable, but it is demor
alizing. The particular classes o
labor that receive tips should stanC
together and refuse to take them
They should demand wages In keep
ing with the service they render.
That taking chance tips instead o
receiving an adequate salary is no
profitable is shown by the condition
, of affairs abroad. In those countrie
! where the tipping system has been ii
} vogue the longest labor is the mos
: debased. In Berlin one is even ex
: pected to tip the street car conductor
In Vienna one must fee the janito
who let's him In or out of his owl
: house at night. Practice has mad
this so universal that 1t Is almost a
binding as IL it were law.--New Yorl
/ Sun.
Greenhorns as Inventors.