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Show WORTH MORE. THAN THE COAT Statistician Figures Out the Tip fot Caring for Hla Overcoat. The statistician, as a rule, is not t popular person. He makes a displaj of figures, and they rarely or evei teach us a lesson. For once, however, the statistlclar has appeared in the altogether new character of a "funny man" and what ho tells us is worth recording. The man in question is a bachelor who spends roost of his evenings ic theaters and restaurants, and in t doleful voice he tells us that, owing to the tip system, his overcoat costi him on the average 60 cents a daj from the tip fn the restaurant where ho lunches; In the restaurant where he dines, in the theater and in tho res taurant where he haB supper. And ic this he does not reckon the tip he gives tho servants in friends' house! who help him on with his overcoat. This garment, for which he original ly paid 140, therefore costs him 115C in tips in the course of the year. And then his hat and umbrella! they, too, it appears, prove expensive, and necessitate a yearly outlay of $4 in gratuities, although he does not tell us how ho works this out. It certain ly sounds terrible. Gentlewoman. |
