Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Tipping in Berlin [ARTICLE]

Tipping in Berlin

Tipping Is carried to a more desperate extreme In Berlin than anywhere else In the world. One must tip wherever he goes. It would never do at all to buy a glass of beer for 15 or 20 pfennigs without giving the waiter 5 or 10 A tip goes with every bit of luncheon, no matter how trifling. You tip the cabman, the hotel porter, the chambermaid, the waiter. Most surprising of all, you must tip the tram car conductor or the omnibus man If you want to get along comfortably. The tipping system Is even extending to steam roads, notwithstanding the efforts made to suppress it.—Walter Wellman, In Chicago Times-Herald.