Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — English Tips. [ARTICLE]

English Tips.

The complaint of the traveler against the English system of “tips” waxes every year more bitter. It has become impossible for persons of moderate means to visit at large establishments, no matter upon what footing they stand with the owners, because it costs so much to fee the servants. “I came away from England without going to see my sister,” a gentleman said, recently, “because I will not submit to the tipping. Her husband has a big establishment, and it would make all the servants think she had shabby relatives for me to go there and not do the conventional thing; and that I wall not submit to. When they were here last year, they stayed with me three weeks, and when they were going aw'ay he wanted to fee the servants, and I told him that that was an insult to me. I said that it was an intimation that I could not or would not have him properly served without his paying for it; and that in America it was a point of honor with us to see that our hospitality was not paid for by the guest. I don’t think he liked the way I put it, but he could not think of anything to say.— Boston Courier.