El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-18

Poor Must Pay as Well as
the Rich, and Burden So
Falls Heavy.
SOME REASONS WHY
PEOPLE GIVE TIPS

chine, a complicated machine Of wheels
and cOgs and gears. The TWIN engines
that drive it are the same twin engines
that furnish the motive power for ev-
cry human action One Of them is the
hope Of reward and me other is the
fear OF punishment
No Gratitude Evidenced.
There was time when gratitude
mad something to do with tipping, but
that was before tipping was systema-
tized- Gratitude has as much TO do
with tipping today as follow candles
have to do with street lighting. It Is
8 thing of the past and is remembered
only as we remember (Out Of books
stage coaches. knee breeches and pow
one tips today because he has some
faint hope OF reward I'm the form Of
good service or because he has live
y fear CT punishment He does not
know the exact form that threatened
punishment viii take, and thereby is
bis fear made the greater, for since
Adam and Eve ate of the fruit Of the
tree Of knowledge, mankind has feared
more that which it does not know than
that which it does know. Whispered
tales there be Of walters, who with
sanctmOniOus face and simpering smile
have set before luckiess but too
stingy patron a plate Of soup to which
many dreadful things may have hap
pened in the course Of its journey from
the kitchen to the table
Perhaps the actual defilement Of food
IS an occurrence so rare that even the
suggestion Of il is hardly fair, but IL
cannot be denied that the fear of it IS
widespread and efficacious in the
stimulation OF generosity on the part
Of tip givers.
Unfortunately tips in the hope Of re-
ward are the more frequently given
in hotels and restaurants patronized by
the pOssessOrs OF plethOric purses while
tips prompted by the fear Of punish
ment prevail more generally in the
cheap restaurants and eating houses Of
rips in Cheap Restaurants.
F0r be ii remembered the tipping
system is not confined to the places
where one pays 40 cents plate for
potatoes. At a restaurant IN Washing
ton where, on occasion one can get an
trimmings" for IS cents the walters
are girls. A regular patron Of this
place whose check twice daily averaged
30 cents habitually left dime on the
table for the waitress This is a tip OF
80 Is percent percentage practically
unknown at Sherry's or DelmOnicO's.
At the next tables an old man.
The generous patron who gave a dime
twice a day noticed that the old mans
soup was always cold, that his eggs
were never right. that when he ordered
rare beef II came wei done, that when
he ordered well done pork it came rare,
that when he ordered boiled potatoes
he got them baked, and that always
he had TO wait three or four times as
long for anything as did the other pa
irons about him. Tipping two dimes IN
stead or one, and thereby propitntng
the stern young woman VINO served
It was that the old man was always
kicking about his food
The old gink is a tight wad," re-
piled the young woman He has been
coming here regularly for three months
and be has never cOughed up a cent
Our hero thereafter so manipulated
his order as to eat but p cents worth
at a meal and thereby was enabled to
give the girl 10 cents each time he
went into the restaurant
Works Hardship on Women.
Young women employed IN offices in
the business section Of New YORK com
plain that they must always give the
waitress in the quick lunch room that
they parrOnize at noon twice Ilp OF
or 10 cents on a meal check Of 20 or
IS cents. It is true that men in the same
part Of town can avoid the ZIP alIo-
gether by patronizing beef ana es-
Enlistment. but there is no such refuge
for the office woman She must appro-
pirate from 81 to IS a month out Of her
meager wages for tips
And the pity Of 1t is that the girls
who take these tips are compelled to eX-
tort them because they cannot manage
TO exist on the wages they receive for
waiting on the tables In the cheap
lunch rooms. 1t is a TACT however. that
in proportion TO the amount Of money
expended for eatable the patron Of the
quick. lunch room pays more in tips
than does the patron Of the gilded
lobster palaces in the vicinity of Long
Acre square.
The fear Of punishment is the prompt
ing motive in giving tips to many serv-
ants outside Of dining rooms. One tips
the taxi starter at the door of a hotel
when on his way to a railway station
or steamship dock for fear the starter
viii tip the wink to the chauffeur, and
that as result Of that wink the taxi
VIII break down somewhere between
the hotel and its destination.
One tips the porter in hotel for
fear that he may come again TO that
same hotel and that his trunks viii be
lost for some hours or days on their
way from the railway station TO the
hotel
One tips the barber for fear that If
he comes again TO that barber shop ne
viii give up a gOOdly portion OF MS
epidermis and his hemoglobin before
the sanguinary blade OF the tonsorlal
one tips the chambermaid for fear
that he viii emerge from bathtub to
find the towels conspicuous by their
one tips the messenger boy not from
fear but In the faint hope that he viii
Tips to the @Cabbies.7
Perhaps the one tip that cannot be
resolved as a result either Of hope or
driver or a chaILeur at the END OF a
journey. Apparently this tip is prompt
ed by habit and habit only.
In Europe, as is well known by all
travellers. the servants at one hotel al
ways mark a travellers baggage so as
to give notice to servants Of the next
hotel what manner Of a man the owner
Of the luggage is in the matter giving
TIPS One man. who was always most
generous with his rrlnkgelQ, happened
TO De leaving Brussels Tor cologne at the
very time when his cash In pocket was
considerably reduced. On account of a
holiday the banks were closed and his
letter of credit availed him nothing I
He was forced to be parsimoniOus in
tipping the servants Of the Brussels hO-
tel When he got. to Cologne he found
himself for the first time in Europe
or in any other country for that mat
ter, to be free from the tipping evil ]
The reason was that he could not per
Do q rfT q NfaI1 7Gr1
to come near enough to him to get a
tip. They had received the message
from Brussels, the label on the suit
case was pasted upside down or some
thing Of the sort and they knew thar I
this man was stingy. The traveller was
compelled in the end TO run the head 1
porter into a corner and to produce a I
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