Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-25

lessor Robb is today examining one of the
few overall. about economic problems
with which no national or inter national COM
mittee is yet graphing TO determine its pres
ent and its postwar nuances.
Yet If some fine, outstanding committee,
headed preferably by ]. p. Morgan Mon
tagu Norman, could get its hooks into the
problem of tipping in all its phases the boys
would uncover a gold mine and really find out
what high finance means
According to the office dictionary. ito tip
is a colloquialism meaning to give small gra-
tuity to-"
That's what Webster thinks but Noah
never made the rounds of New Yorks bet
ter restaurants and supper clubs, or he would
not. of necessity. have put in that adjective
small"
These tips may be small" individually.
but in the aggregate they add up to pretty
penny for any individual out on a pub crawl.
On such an expedition, a man needs TO be
equipped with more loose change than bank
teller and small wad of folding money In
the lower denominations for tipping alone.
The man who owns himself-Sher-
man Billingsey. proprietor Of night club
named after the bold who brings the babies
frankly says IL shocks" him to discover
how much largesse he distributes in tips
whenever he goes out on the town. visiting
other jernts equally as elegant as his own
Now IL it shocks him-and he chose the
verb of his own accord-it is an experience
to put any novice in the game into a cataleptic
state
The gallant who saves enough money for
a pub crawl with his best girl and fails to
reckon on the tips. Is certain TO have to
thumb his way home with the mkman
At a minimum. he will have no less than
seven persons TO tip, and II he does the thing
up brown ne will grease the palms of no
less than twelve persons and then go into
bankruptcy.
Cutting II very fine, our hero must tip the
taxi driver who unloads himself and his girl
at FL SPLENDID the girl who checks their
wraps, the attendant in (podden mel the
mems room, the waiter, the cigarette girl
and the doorman who calls cab when they
leave.
And while our hero himself will probably
be unable personally to tip the attendant in
the Powder Room. If this girl Is the woman
! think she is the wench will borrow at least
25 cents offn him every time she retires to
repair the ravages of time and the wear and
tear on her makeup.
This is so help me- the minimum. But IL
our hero, is Big Spender from South Bender
or a Butter and Bolts man from Pittsburgh,
he will certainly watt little folding money
10 the captain of the walters and TO the
sommelier or wine steward for the onerous
task of getting the cork out Of the cham
payne.
He may even send up a small token to
the entertainers to the maitre dhotel and
even to the chef, If he is a gourmet and has
dned well.
II Myrtle, who works in the five-and-dime
and her boy friend, Bud who is in the shipping
department OF Binks and Binks. decide to
save their money for final fling in one or
two of the night spots they've been reading
about in the columns before Bud goes off to
the Army how much will they need for tips
alone?
The acceptable minimum, over which
neither Myrtle nor Bud need blush is about as
follows: Is TO 25 cents to the taxi driver de-
pending in the distance Because Bud can't
ask Myrtle TO go TO FL Splendo on the subway,
since she is wearing an evening dress.
II Myrtle goes to the Powder Room TO fix
up and Bud goes TO the gents room for ditto.
it'll cost another IS cents each If they sit
at the bar and have a few drinks Bud will
be expected to leave the bartender a tip rep
resentng at least Is per cent of the total
check.
Now if they dine at FL Splendo. the
waiter will be gratifed with tip again rep
senting Is per cent of the total. OF course.
if Bud and Myrtle doing it up brown and
order bottle OF wine, the sommeer will ex-
pect 81 for each quart bottle he uncorks.
Then, If they run out of cigarettes. Bud
can hardly leave the cigarette girl less than
Is to 25 cents for the trouble of selling him a
package of smokes
II they decide to have Turkish coffee af-
ter dinner and the Turkish coffee expert
comes to the table to do his abacadabara
production for them, he will expect half a
buck at least.
II FL Splendo boasts a palmist, a crystal
gazer a fortune teller Of one kind or an
other, and If Bud and Myrtle decide to peer
into the future. Bud can scarcely give the seer
less than 81 for promising Myrtle tall dark
handsome man chats Bud) or predicting an
adventurous but safe future for Bud.
On the way out, Bud retrieves his hat from
the hat check girl, and there goes another
quarter the fourth part of dollar. And he'd
better have quarter in his jeans for the Ell
Splendo doorman who calls him a cab
Anyway you slice it, it's going to cost Bud
October 25. 1912