Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Footing the Bills of the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Footing the Bills of the Fair.

The American custom of paying foi your friends in cases or restaurants prevails in Spain, though nowhere else on the continent, says a traveler. Formerly gentlemen who accompanied ladies on their shopping expeditions were in the habit of paying for everything their fair friends bought, so that 1 gallantry became a too expensive luxury, and the custom wisely died out. It used t u be said in Andalusia, where women were more extravagant than in the north, that a long purse was needed for a short walk with a lady. The custom is obsolete now, and she who allows you to make purchases for her is supposed to be devoid of high breeding.