Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — Avaricionsness to the English. [ARTICLE]

Avaricionsness to the English.

N. Y. Tribune. Nothing is more novel nnd stunning in its effect upon travelers from this country in England than the constant obtrusion of the everlasting six-pence

gratuitously. If be Ml* you the way on the streets or gives you the time of day, or a light for a cigar, mo how good his coat, the ehaacea are so expected to tip the servant who shorn her to the drawing room; if you stay by invitation at a private house over night, you will find the whole corps of servants drawn up waiting for their money in the halltothctobroing; their master saveshinmelf so much of wages by your gifts, and counts on **• Vfcy few Americans would be willing to throw open the privacy of their homes to the public to increase their income; but if an EagUsman’s house is his castle, oreanby any means be made a show place, he turns an honest penny by exhibiting it. The shilling, or crown, or sovereign paid by ▼fetters to the servants who escort than through the great houses, goes, not to the servant as is often supposed, but directly into the pocket of the master. In the cases of Chatsworth, Blenheim, and places of that grade, the revenues of the ducal owners are increased ttfbosands of pounds by this means. The American is just as fond, probably, of the almighty dollar as hfe British cousin, but he manages to get it in a different way.