The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-08
TIPPING is GREAT
NUISANCE In MEXICO.

There is no city in the world where
what may be called Tip mania" has be-
come so deeply rooted as among the
people of the City of Mexico, says the
Mexican Herald.
The tipping habit is becoming a law,
which, of course, is better observed by
those who are to receive the tips. II
you fail to tip n one who has rem
dered 0 a service. ever if you have
already paid a high price for it, you are
liable to be insulted and abused.
Summon a cargador, arrange with
him for the transportation of a bundle,
and if after the work is done and the
price agreed upon is paid you do not
give him his ''aguital' you will be In
suited, and that cargador, nor n of
his friends, will ever do any work for
you.
Restaurant walters, BARRIERS, coach
men, bootblacks, porteros, ~mozos-eVery-
body wants a tip n they all have spe-
ella names to call those who do not
give tips. For instance at a restaurant
they are called 'sjammones" (hams) or
beefsteaks; at a barber shop "musicos'
(~musicians); by coachmen something
thai would not look well in print; by
bootblack 'chivos'' "bucks) and by por-
teros "sinverguenzas."
Such warning is enough. No n in
the group will render services, giving
as an excuse that he is very busy Uni
jefecito, estoy muy ocupado ahorita).
However, all these people have found
an easy way to compel people who nave
not fallen into the habit of giving tips to
exploit them, and "volis nolis' they
have to open their purse.
After 10 o'clock at night cabs charge
double fare. Any one who takes a cab
at, say, ter minutes to 10 n discharges
it fifteen minutes after 10, is compelled
to pay half an hour at regular day
rates and another half an hour at night
rates.
If a cargador is sent on an errand he
sometimes will spend half of the day at
a pulque joint, and will return saying
that either he could not find the house
or the person whom he was to see.
The he exacts additional payment for
time lost"
Restaurant walters. double the price
of articles consumed, especially II they
are not included in the bill of fare.
which happens very often.
Bootblacks seldom nave change, and
if sent to get it one often never sees
them again.
AS to porteros, their most ~efficacious
means to compel people living in their
houses to give them a tip is to refuse to
the door.
In barber shops "musicos' are COM
PEELED to wait for a long time, and
in the chair they are either tor
tured by dun razors or BARRIERS take
time than would be required to
shave the entire body of a bull.
Besides these tips there are h gifts
which have to be made on different
days of the year to servants or people
who in any capacity render their serv-
ices. New Year. the "ano nuevo;'
January 6, the Santos reyes" Febru-
ary 2, the "candelarita;" March 10, the
San Josesito;" Holy Saturday, h
Judas" June "a, the San Juanito;"
Of Corpus Christi, the "multa;"
August IS. the Ascension" September
Is. the "1ndependencia;" November l,
"Calavera;'f December, II, the
and December 20, the
On all tuese udyS hS"9DO'
who deliver the paper at home, letter.
carriers. butchers, ~tailors, shoemakers
everybody expects to receive a gift OF
some kind, preferably in cash.
The tip question has become such a
nuisance in Mexico City that some time
ago the government of the federal dis
trict announced that cabmen, car
gadors, mecapaleros, ETC., who accepted
tips would be discharged. Unfortunate
ly the public prefers to tip all these
people rathertthan to hear itself alled
by the far from sweet names that such
people apply to non-tipping persons.