The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-11-16
HANDS ACROSS THE SEA.
A Cleveland Man Says That Europe Is
One Vast Palm Garden.

Cleveland Man Says That Europe Is
One Vast Palm Garden.
well what did you see in Europe p"
friend inquired Of Edward S. Rogers,
president OF the English Wooden Mills
company. on his retnrnen from his flrse
trip to foreign shores.
@Handsl" replied Rogers promptly.
Just hands. Europe is one vast palm
garden and every palm is extended
toward you. You can spend a week in
New York hotel and think the To-
graft has already been raised to the
ninth degree, but alongside Of Europe
the tipping system IN New York is as
primitive 10 II is In a foreign farmhouse
where they take Ia two or three summer
boarders.
Europe must be great. though, for
people that take it seriously. They
showed us q lot Of places where there
had been greet many wonderful things
great many years ago. II we had gone
over about 1000 years sooner, we would
have seen large number OF strange and
interesting things. Only the ruins are
left.
Even now there no place Ike Europe
for man who goes Il for cathedrals.
Still. / felt at times that the cathedral
industry IN Europe had Been oYerworked
There are dozens Of cit4es that have
nothing else Of interest but cathedrals
| used to wish that they would drive as
around and show us an American barber
.hop or a grocery instead Of oathedraia
Sometimes they'll vary the monotony by
showing you a museuen You can get a
giide for ~ Or ~ 4 day, and unless II
happens 70 be free day at the nearest
museum hen take you 20 H. Tg tip.
ping a bell boy to cat the man at your
hotel who knows where to beckon TO a
guide and tipping the cashier To give You
some change 30 you'li have something 10
land to the man who beckons to the
giIide and then give the guide something
Beside his regular charge. you can be on
Your way 10 see the sights Of me aver.
age European city Then therefil Be
man Just outside Of the museum or
whatever else II is that the guide takes
you TO see, who will let YOU in for a
mall charge--not forgetting TO charge
ION for your gaide-and after you're
inside another man win take YOU to the
next threshold If you tip him, and turn
gou over to another man, who, if tipped,
will escort YOU a rod or two further
where with polite shrug Of his shout
iers he'll turn you over to still another
burglaran so on.
1t isn't the expense Of the thing that
bothers You II there were some thief
n-chief to whom vou could deliver AL
lhe graft in lump sum when Won step
fl your boat and not be pestered fur
iher. then you could save all the wear
and tear OF your trousers pockets and
your temper and All would be well. It's
he idea that you're being worked for
I'D easy mark at every stage that gets
under your skin--riEht down under the
sub-cuticle. Some hotels don't even
print the prices on the menu. You can
nqniFe the prices from the headwaiter,
nt YOU have to tip the man you send
lfter the head waiter TO ask him what
Ehe prices are. and after you've asked
he prices Of two or three articles the
lead waiter begins to mutter some
hing about YOU being cheap sport to
saggle over prices and You decide to 90
omewhere else And when you 90 some
where else it's lust as bad there. Cleve-
and Plain Dealer.