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Show x''Xx-xX"X"X":"X"X'XX":" 1 Way tz Stop I Tipping Nuisance I 6 By H. A. PREVOST, World Traveler, New York V "X"X"X"X"X"X"X"X"XK"X"X"XK"X,'X If there's any good at all to come out of the European Euro-pean war, it may be found in the abatement and perhaps per-haps the eventual elimination elimina-tion of the tipping evil. Waiters in London and Paris and in the smaller cities in Europe where I went are complaining loudly that they are not getting any tips or not getting the tips they used to get. You see, the native Londoner, as well as the native Parisian, is not the one who caused tipping to become a nuisance. It was the American Ameri-can who caused the trouble. His prodigality spoiled the European waiters. wait-ers. Anybody who has traveled in, Europe knows that the tips given employees not only- in the hotels, but on trains, in the customhouses, everywhere, were absolutely necessary if one was to get any service. Employers Em-ployers recognized it, and paid their employees less money than they were entitled to, the public paying. Since the war there has been comparatively little tipping done in any Df the big European cities. The residents of London and Paris have had to cut down their tips because money is scarce, and there are very few Americans traveling. Perhaps the public will learn by experience that tipping can be done away with if all persons will combine in the movement, move-ment, and this is the opportunity. At any rate, those in Europe who have heretofore depended largely on the tips of foreigners have perforce had to get along without them, and it is up to the public now to keep it going. |