Cañon City record., 1909-12-09
Dacdtion Days In Europe
By LDiitian1 .4iien IUhite
The Tip System
The Tip System

1t will please Americans to know
that the American flag is omre uni
versally seen in France than any 9TH
European country the stars and
stripes are the secondary banner. And
everywhere we saw American signs.
American Dentists" are all over
Europe; American optical goods"
are advertised on shop windows in
Italy. in Belgium. in France, in Ger
many. Very American Shoes" are
seen in windows from one end OF the
continent to the other. 1t is for shoes
more than any other one thing that
America is known by the shoppers of
| Europe. No one makes such shoes
as we do. II the trust does 1t and this
I is treason to the cause-Bob La Fol-
| lette and Joe Bristow will have to
make the most of IT,
| Also the American Radiator Com
pany has branch houses in every i'm
portant European country. six months
behind with orders, plumbing and
cold gray palaces of Europe and fit
ting them with every modern con-
venience" For where we read OF the
old palaces we must not forget that
they are as cold as Greenland. and
until American enterprise has re-
furnished them they are as uncomfor-
table as a cold Jail on a frosty morn
ing.
America, more than any other ma
ton, is making headway in Europe
in trade and business. The American
stock exchange is watched by Euro
pean financiers. And here is a funny
thing: The rise OF radicallsm in
Europe and the threat OF Socialism
has reached a hue and cry here that
capital is being driven out OF the
country.
One hears IL in Italy: In Germany;
in France; in England. And they
are so much more radical here in
Europe than we are in America that
And 8 marks a day to live in the
surgents in the senate seem mild and
conservative. The income tar is on
practically every European statute
book. and the Inheritance tax has
come to stay. Capital which Is being
driven out Of Europe and out OF Amer
ica-accordlng to the reactionaries-
either will have to go TO Africa or
sprout wings and go straight up!
One curious thing that we found
In going about through Europe IL
that the price Of living-at least
tourist living-depends somewhat II
not largely. upon the standard coin
That is TO say. when the standard
coin is a franc-that Is 20 cents OF
our money-prices were based on
francs. II costs us francs day
apiece to live in the franc countries
And s manrks day TO live inthe
mark countries and a mark is "a
cents, and 8 horins a day to live in
the form countries. and a form is
AZ cents Cab fares and car fares
were all reckoned on the basis OF the
standard coin. The two cent tip that
gladdens the heart OF French or Itai- |
ian cabman is scorned In Holland or
Germany There II requires five |
cents to get fashlIght smile.
And this brings up the whole sub |
ject OF tips. Tips are un-Amerlcan. |
But II Americans don't like them they |
should stay at home. And II they don't |
stay at home they should conform TO |
the customs OF their hosts. But on |
the other hand. the Americans
shouldn't be fools about IT, They |
should be victorious. like the young |
woman in the story. without being a
fanatic on the subject.
Tips In Europe go to honest under
paid, hard-working people. 1t is not
their fault that they have to live on
tips. 1t is partly the fault OF the sys-
tenn OF caste, which keeps them SER
vile and dependent. So when a hotel
bill is paid. one should take five per
cent OF the sum-no more and no less
and give It to the help.
The ordinary middle-class hotel
pension. where the ratets run from
$1.40 to $40 per day. will have four
or five persons who should be tipped:
The head Water, the table waiter, the
chambermaid. the porter and the con-
cierge-or general factotum at the
door who tells you what car or what /
bus TO take, who knows all about the
town, and whose friendship and good
will are pearls OF great price.