Show J I A Fortune in Tips TipsI I I EVERY time the subject of tipping comes up upI up- up I and the extortion of it forces it into view very frequently the thc the average Ameri American n takes a firm firmS J S stand against it it Then he wilts The next time he hc J has a friend to dinner at the grill room or even e hands bands his hat to the tho white girl in the cloak I room ho he parts with his ius coin with an air nir of bravado I I that fools everybody but himself And he takes conSO consolation from the fact that it is only a trifle I But is is it it itIn 1 In the individual contribution ye yes t but the sum tot total l would amaze him if he were met methodical me me- I I t th di nl enough nough to keep an account of such forced contributions l 1 I G. G A. A Lorenzen a cigar salesman kept kepi such a aI statement of tho the tips he gave to all the thc hood of the Open Hand and the Charter Members I of th the Itching Palm lalm He kept it for twenty years methodic methodically and it took just fifty small note books I f to e carry the record He lie stopped tra el traveling ng the thc other day and when he lie IC put down the last tip he lie added it itI I to those that had gone before in the score of years cars of dispensing gratuities It amounted up to the I small fortune of and while whilo he was no piker I J in his tips he had not been leen een a lt grandstand player er I either cither He ILi gave the customary amounts I I Much of this went to servants ants at hotels and on onI I the railways J If you dont don't give ghe tips sa said d Mr rr Lorenzen you are are blacklisted d and find that your troubles are arc increased to such an all extent that you cannot make I train connections or get service at hotels I There is much truth in what h he says and ana much t lack Inck of backbone as well Every ery one admits the exi extortion ex ex- of the system every everyone one protests against it i but no one OJIE has a rigid enough spinal column to take 1 the thc step of ot cutting out tips alone If he could be beI assured of sympathy and assistance every sufferer would have ha a bold front in the matter I It is too much uch for one man to tackle but one ono man can start the tip no movement and arouse the public against it He must be an organizer though I and a sticker Public sentiment will be overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelm overwhelm- with him at the first then it will vill begin to wobble Here is where the glue in his nature must begin to ooze He must stick himself and make makeI others stick The The- task is not for the quitter or the self But t it is a great one and the fellow who I frees the thc nation from tipping could hn have ye au any old job he wants at the hands of his enfranchised fellow- fellow I sufferers ki |