The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-25
OF TALK, TIPS AND PRICES
-BROkEN LANGUAGE 4 ram RE
N ETROPR.
y on Can DO BETTER when IaU Talk Plain
EngiI~h How the American Has ta
Pay More for ENerythIRS Than tho
European Tipping Public OnicIaIs.

The man and his wife were sittinG
at "a small table on the top of a high rock
\ A thousand feet below them water as blu
Z az sapphire undulAted In slow. Shimrncy-
; ing waves. slant shots of silver light
fell through the lucent blue YelloW
: flashes came and went upon the round
shoulders 10 the professional waves
Little boats 81 dinRy brown rose and
fell upon the waters. Sometimes n
fragment ~ song hoatcd upward from
one 81 the boats Oftencr there was
wonderful mystic silence. Far across
the field % waves rose the purple shape
al Ischia. Behind IL Law the rugged
form % Cape Missno. Vet n little way
90 the right of that sat enthronsd n shin
ing yellow city upon the feet of n green
hill still further Ia the right rose tho
cone 81 y mountain. smoking family
against the azure sky.
The man and his wife were sitting on
the terrace at Bitter's az Anacapri They
drank MalvRsia. but they wer. wise in
their dav and generation for they Ind
not first eaten. They had tried that once
and they had learned that one must not
eat luncheon and afterward drink 81
the MalvhsiA IT Bitser. For IL IL sour and
saddeninR and. ike the palm tree vine
mentioned by Aenophon, 'cSoe,.dingly
headaChy-
| lie who eats at Capri should drink only
Capri wine. ths queen 81 all southern
Europe's wines. There In no other wins
like Capri II IL the distilled essanc"
of the Italian sunshine. But one must
drink II at Capri. II is home loving
wine II IL most unhappy whom taken
abroad. II resists transportation even
a. far a. Naples at Genoa becomes
vinegar. In the Uni'sd States but
lives there the man with soul 80 dead
that he would try 20 drink Capri in the
Cnited states,
They make the red and white wine ON
that wonderful little island But red
wines never display such individuality ~
white. To he sure there are certain vim
tage= 81 the ancient land ~ the BurEun-
dams that do speak tongue - their own.
and the man and his wife have drunk also
certain Beau iolais which might hav"
held converse with the high gods at
Olytnpian hanquets. But after all there
II no such wonderful difference. b"twcan a
Claret 81 Bordeaux and an Austrian
Nuslaucr as some would have us believe. 4
and in Ohio they produce "A red wine !
which ~ not altogether a stragger in the /
procession ~ table beverages.
But when you sit in the presence u real /
Johannishsrger Schloss you are at the F,
foot Of the throne OF a monarch When /
You look at Piesporter Goldtropfchen Eat
81 marks a bottle in the Mosel Valley ~ hero J
u grows you should be silent In venera- /
tion And even the familiar Rerncastel"r /
Dukfor of BeTncastal has no irni'ators I
He ~ perhaps not exactly a kaiser among I
wines. hu' he IL certainly NJ mere prince .
ling
All this IL by way - digression. ~ ram
bling into pleasant bypa;hs where fond
memory loves TO daily with the golden
leaves q hygone years The man and his
wife. a. aforesaid. were sitting on the
aerial terrace at AnAcapri and looking out
over the marvellous hay which Robert
HichenS Uses As a stage setting for some
81 his stories. You can hear all about
HichenS II you ~ into the famous book
seller MichAslsOu's place But this also
IL another DEPRESSION. for 10 matters not
~ this time how Hiohsns slips into Michael
sons and sits behind pile Of books wait
ing 20 hear what people say about his
novels. docs its The man and his wife are
still sitting
What did you give the head waiter in
the hotel at Bai~''
i watched the Italian next to mo
answered the man. -and I gave whit he
did
And thus caused yourself 60 ~ an
accurs-d memory in that hotel
-Of certainty. You and | we'll know
that IA" American or IN. English traveller
il expected Ia pay moro Tor everything
than th, native does. And this IL not
the chs. only IN Italy. hut -vervN herr In
Europe The sign which sets forth that
there are flied prices Is not for ms
Certainly not said the wife: don't
you remember our conversation IN Munich
with the Russian who lived "a VIENNA"
i do. II. professs,d 10 H. nmazad
when ] told him that the prices in our
large shops w-r" really lHai .Nhnt'
he exclaimed. do you moan to tell iu,,
that II an Italian or a Fr-nchman or
German walks into one ~ your liv shot.- :
and buys a pair Of Shoes Won charg,
hun IN" -lm" pro" az you would chir,,.
an American And when I assured him :
that such was IN" Cours.. of procedure. D..
Why. We never do that over r
her" And well knew that he SPOKE th.. :
truth /
FIRST 81 all said th" wife musinRIy !
1T would Ia we'll II they would adopt ?
-nm" snrt " a system about the prIo..s of :
rooms m hotels a
1t - my "pinion/ said Ia. man, that =
hey hav" very well defined syst.rp q
The first part Of IL ~ 90 hoodwink Rar,,-k.r :
Tor ~ has been our experience that ONLY "
here aud Their" cnn w. get hotel rooms a, 8
any such prioes as tho-c qucted in tho b
idmirnb" guide hooks This axT.-i.rc, =
W" haN" had chiefly IN smaller towns and p
'iti"- Tn" h'g hotels ~ ~" great rif 20. u
naturally hnv" vide variety OF price. q
N rooms hut don't YOU remember how
~ caught the fellow ~ that town wh.-,. -
IN. he"r celebrated in song fowsg- q
That ! do replied the VIII" smiling / Il
. He asked vs. three marks Ter day mon. =
han N" highest pric" quoted IN Ba.,l.,f.r
and when you respectfully d.-rIip..i g. I
CIV" u u. took rs two doors further dow, a
tho same hall and shovel ~ ano,hc- n
room just Ike the first one and ash cd ,,1 q.
the correct pric" for u Then h.. wen, If
panE 10 The first room and oH..-.1 81, 4.