The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-11
TIPI'ING.
Growing to BE Source of Revenue to

Growing to BE Source of Revenue to
Infringement
The nuisance of tipping--lt used to
be called; menace would be a better
lword-grows both at home and abroad.
THE London Times says 1t has spread
Ito parts of the world where not long
lago it was unknown. 1t AYERS that
the free miner in our Western States
will accept a tip for showing ono
around a placer camp. and evidently
Iexpects it. In Egypt and Turkey the
word Tip" is displacing "backsheesh,"
while in England the size of the tip
has been steadily increasing for years.
At good restaurant now you are eX-
of your bill for the tip. Anything less
causes the waiter to cast on you that
look which the boldcst finch froui"
The London Spectator thinks that stute-
ment explains the increase OF the tip
la kind of moral Matchmaking which
the average man has not the strength
Ito resist.
But the main point is that tipping
lis not merely an injustice to the Gus
toner, but that excessive tpping-and
Iit is almost all excessive now--cannot
avoid the law of economics by which it
destroys itself. That is, as tips in
Ecrease in size, wages are put down
lcorrespondingly, SO that really this
continued Fleeing of the public bene-
fits at the last only the manager. who
lin due progress, may expect to have
lall the wages of his establishment paid
thus. and more than this, convert tips
into II source of revenue. Indeed. 1t
has long been the case where the pay
waiter" the one that collects the
money where tipping prevails, pays for
his place premium proportional TO
! the establishments grade of custom.
| But 1T is not merely in the question
of meat and drink that the tip OBJ
trudes. II follows everywhere In
English country houses, says the Spec
| tator. where weekend visitor for
imerly counted on pound as satisfy
ling all demands, everybody now must
! have sovereigns, and five times the old
lamount hardly gets a guest free-the
guest of a private house! An anecdote
iof the situation is that a weekend
guest offered head gamekeeper two
when the man, drawing
himself up, said:
This is q paper house, SIR mean
ing that nothing less than five pound
note (the lowest English paper de-
nomination) would be accented. The
conclusion or progress of the matter
be cradicated. 1t must be endured
Therefore, those that pay are coming
TO an unwrtten understanding of a
tscale of prices for different services
And this undoubtedly is the solution
| The gratuity or graft or tip has sc
Ilong now corrupted good manners and
Idulled the sense OF independence tina,
IT may be accepted as a permanency-
so much added to everything that YOU
Ipay for in certain services and situa.
tons. The next and Inevitable thing
Is well-recOgniZed rate reaching Il
EVERY contingency. This is the work,
ling of the economic law. One might
reflect on the pity of it all. the de.
|struction that It is of manliness. in
dependence, good manners, but to wha
GO IN 1,o %l,. t1,x
world. If those that serve insist or
/ tips the served will inevitably insist OF
q recognized rate. and so servility vii
.Ihavc its mark and stamp in the mar
1 ket. For really those that pay canno
forever live In moral fear and be in
lcreasingly BLEED by those that accep
their money as gift-Indianapoli
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