Show TIP SYSTEM IN GERMANY A Nuisance in Private Houses Now According to French Writer New York Y rk Sun The tip nuisance In private houses Is described by b Jean Unmet Huret In a Paris news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper lie He says fars that th t the holdup system for the benefit or of home servants and coachmen Is shameless It the expense he cares about nor even the annoyance of or having haing to t search your pockets every e I time you make your our exit from a house nOr yet the mortification mortification tion you feel If you forget the tip What overwhelms him with surprise is the coarseness of ot the practice How would a II Frenchman feet feel he lie asks It if he be found his guests distributing small change to his servants Hurst Hum relates what he says is a typical typical typical cal Instance of the abuse It took place under his own eyes In Hamburg A resident of ot that city and his hill wife took tooka a lady who had been lunching at their house to her home in their victoria As A Ashe she abe alighted she fumbled In her handbag until she found her purse S Then she extracted a quarter and hand handed handed handed ed it up tip to the coachman with a polite gesture The man touched his hat Hu flu Huret ret wished d to sink into the earth but host and hostess seemed to take it as asa asa asa a matter of course The couple drove on ott with him to his hotel hot l He confesses confess s that he had not the cour courage courage courage age of ot the lady He gave laVe the coachman no tip Up Literally he ho h did not Idar dard to In Inflict filet such an outrage on pleasant people I who had shown him many attentions But later he was told that he had made a big mistake that he hud had tailed to do the chic His Ills objection is not to the universal custom of making presents in houses stops several days or weeks to the tho servants specially with ones comfort In France too It Is not unusual to send new years gifts to ser servants In fn houses where one is a R frequent visitor 1 But In Germany the hand of or the ser servant servant vant ant Is held out put In e er f rm of private entertainment and the gratuities are vir virtually 11 solicited and given right under the eyes s of the hosts The only parallel he ho knows know to it is In some country places In the north of France where he has seen guests slip pieces of or money under their elates at the close of at a dinner party to toK K found rund by b the servants who waited on them in 1 n German houses hous where large enter entertaining entertaining taming IB is done the servants brawl among themselves after the guests have de departed departed departed parted over the distribution of the geld eld and freely discuss the degree of liberality shown by various individuals To prevent bad blood and to keep ser servants rants ants from leaving aln on account of these quarrels some housekeepers establish tip Into which all nil the amounts re d by all servants are thrown I |