Related article: she does not wish to be considered
stingy and ungenerous, or even if
ordinary services are to be ex-
pected from servants who have
been already paid and engaged to
perform particular duties. It is
to be presumed that there was
once a time when money was
given out of pure generosity or as
an acknowledgment of some
exceptional service p>erformed,
when the stranger within the
gates was not expected of neces-
sity to make a present to every
domestic who carried out his
master's hospitality, but that
time must have been in the far
distant past. We know that
vails to servants were a well-
known tax upon purse and
patience in the days of good
Queen Anne and that centuries
earlier the mail-clad knights were
expected to distribute largesse
when they visited the castle of
another baron.
** A blithe salute, in martial sort,
The minstrels well might sound.
For, as Lord Marmion crossed the court,
He scattered angels round."
It must have been indeed only in
the very far distant past when
such things were not done and
probably were looked upon very
much as they are to-day, as a
quasi right by one party and as
a nuisance by the other. Still we
cannot help thinking that the
custom has, in our own time,
been more systematised than it
ever was before and that it has
now assumed such large and
formidable dimensions that some-
thing should be done to keep it
within reasonable bounds. The
tip is a world-wide institution and
there is no language so poor that
it has not a special expression to
convey its existence. ** Back-
shish," " Pourboire," " Trink-
gelt," are found in every Conti-
nental guide book. " Dastoori "
is familiar in India and even the
African West Coast negro will
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certainly demand a '* Dash."
Ireland, as might be expected,
has an independent expression of
its own, and, as might perhaps
equally be expected, has a more
poetic expression than any other.
Who is there that has lived in the
green Island and has not in his
mind the appeal, " Ah, your
honour, will ye not lave me your
blessing ? "
We need not speak of what
happens outside of our own
country, but we may recapitulate
some of the more marked occa-
sions on which the pocket of
every person who moves about is
bled more or less forcibly and
severely. If we start on a
journey, the bleeding process
begins on our arrival at the
railway station. The Nizagara Online cabman
who has so far conveyed ourselves
and our luggage would consider
himself unjustly defrauded if he
was paid only his legal fare and
he would probably make some
remarks which would be acutely
annoying to ladies and would be
unpleasant even to gentlemen,
unless they happened to be deaf
or to have a peculiarly philosophic
temperament. Which of us would
have Buy Nizagara Online the hardihood to offer to the
London cabby Buy Nizagara exactly what is
his due for distance and the
exact twopence apiece for port-
manteaux? and yet he has no
right, equitable or moral, to more.
We have arrived at the station
and a stalwart porter (generally,
we admit, most civil and obliging)
takes us in charge. He is
certainly paid by the railway
company, but does he, on that
account, not consider himself
entitled to at least sixpence for
his service ? It is possible that
we may escape from the guard, if
there are many passengers among
whom his attention is divided, but
it is more than likely that he will
make a great show of providing
for our comfort in some way or
other and, without putting it in
words, will indicate pretty clearly
that he anticipates a monetary
equivalent from us.
The end of a journey is very
like the beginning. Porter and
cabby must each have something,
and, by the time the ultimate des-
tination has been reached, the
extras have amounted to what, in
small means, is an appreciable
sum, or else a character for shab-
biness, almost amounting to
dishonesty, has been left like a
trail behind the traveller. If our
resting-place is an hotel, the
bleeding process goes on gaily.
We all know of the gentleman
who, at the end of a stay at some
health resort, was heard to say,
" I came here for rest and change,
but the waiters have got all the
change and the landlord has the
rest." He had suffered and was
still. There was another, C3mical
perhaps, but wise in his genera-
tion, who made it a practice on
arriving at an hotel to give liberal
douceurs at once to all the people
on whom his personal comfort
immediately depended. His Order Nizagara open-
handedness was of course noised
abroad through the establishment,
and he always received the most
obsequious attention during his
stay. Whether he gave anything Nizagara Tablets
on leaving or not, he, at any rate,
had received some value for his
money.
An honest attempt was made
by some hotel -keepers, a good
many years ago, to relieve their
customers from the necessity of
" remembering " servants by mak-
ing a definite charge for attend-
ance in their bills, and the custom
then introduced is still maintained
in many places. It has had no
result, however, in the direction
aimed at. Whether attendance is
charged or not, most certainly the
servants still hover expectantly
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round parting guests and receive
fees from the great majority of
them. We are not sure that the
contrary system which, we be-
lieve obtains at some places, is
not the better of the two. The
attendants receive no wages at all
(and even, it is understood, some-
times pay for their position^,
recouping themselves for their
work by the tips which they re-
ceive.
After all, it may be that there
is something to be said for
the system of tipping, when it
takes its place in travelling or
in public resorts. We cannot
always tell what the legitimate
earnings of those who serve us
amount to, and it is very doubtful
whether any employers of labour