The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-03-03
RANDOM OBSERVATIONS


ll9aunl.ea from I4gg onel
in Europe as to become one OF the big
taxes on travel that must be taken
into serious consideration by the tour
ist IN making up his budget OF ex-
pcnses. and now grated upon service
in America Is becoming no mean item
Of expense TO him who travels and has
not the nerve TO pick up all the
change on the saiyer handed him by
an unctious and expectant smoke who
has provided the proyender and OBJ
sequous service on Pullman diner;
or 10 slip coin to the accommodate
ing porter who gives ones coat per-
fuDctory busting and rustles ones
baggage in sleeper; or to surrep-
titiously push piece Of silver under
the plate when dining at swell no.
tel or restaurant; or to dig up upon
about every occasion when some one
else who Is presumably paid salary
for doing II performs some service
which you could perform yourself II
not under the cold and fishy eye OF
the mental whose duty II Is TO per-
form the task, or who performs II I'M
der the supposition that you are a
touch, extracted through the means
OF smile. smile that goes further
in obtaining results than an open
demand for tribute. The tip Is pretty
dependable emOlument that goes to
swell the regular income, which, too
often, the employer takes into cOnsid-
GRAFTON when fixing salaries, and
owing 10 the subserviency Of the
traveller becomes very important
source Of revenue to the beneficiary.
Men who would face cannon with
out batting an eye will cringe like a
mouse under the paws of cat before
the anticipatory stare Of these ex-
pectant beneficiaries and hand out a
largess that they would refuse in
righteous Indignation to some mendi-
cant on the street possibly forced to
beg for a meal
Tipping Is an unsatisfactory practice
both to the Upper and the tipee. IL Is
an instance where there IL not more
pleasure In the giving than the re-
ceiving, for the pleasure Is all one
sided, and the measure of the pleas
ure to the tipee being in proportion
to the size of the tip. II the tiper Is
inclined to be parsimomiouS i'm the
distribution OF his bounty the scorn-
full sheer Of the recipient Is such as
to shrivcl up the benefactor. Few
who partake OF the luxury of travel,
or the higher living in the big cities.
have the hardihOod to fly In the face
of custom, and though at heart they
may stigmatize the practice they fall
for 1t on all occasions, saving their
conscience on the ground that they all
do 1t.
In a moment Of reform conscious
ness, thinking that they were per-
forming lasting obligation upon
their constituency by giving a death
blow to a growing evil. Washington
legislature, some years ago. passed q
law making Il misdemcanor In this
state to either give or accept tips
However. like many another good in
tenti0ned laws, this enactment was
more easily made than enforced. II
! was very evident that the public was
both willing and eager to be gouged
for 1t was soon discovered that, like
he king. tipping IL above the law
and It Is alleged, whether true or not
deponeth Is not in q position to verify
hat one of the first to defy the law
| was the governor who had signed the
bill. Anyhow, that law Is, and ever has
been since passage, a dead letter. So
far as known no one was every prose
cuted under the provisions of the
statute, and with time the practice Of
sreasing the hand that serves you
has become so common that the man
who has not kept in close touch with
prevailing fashion and custom Is some
| what at loss whether Il Is or Is not
the proper thing even to tip the gen.
tleman who passes the plate in our
! places of worship.
But in thus treating Of u growing
evil, II tipping can really be classed
under that head, reference to the
practice IL not made with any expec-
tation or intention of discouraging or
denouncing that practice. Far be II
from us to create sentiment that
would rebound to the pecuniary dis
advantage of any labOrer in this vale
of tears. The subject has been treated
as something that IL and always will
be- Force Is never used to eXtort tips
and the person who can afford to par
take of the better things of life
| should be willing to conform to pre-
vailing customs and cheerfully pay
the price. Tipping Is merely mention
ed M something that exists in the lar
ger world from which small town
people are happily exempt 1t can be
easily lodged. steering clear Of the
places where tips are expected, or II
You are n superman you can ignore
the practice. Some people. so report
has It, can do this. hut they are, like
tho provcrbial angels visits, few and
far between.