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Show TOURIST HIP NOT AS LARGE American Travel in England Not Same as Prewar Variety LONDON, Auk 12. (By the Asso-clated Asso-clated Press.) England's shopkeepers, shopkeep-ers, hotel and -ostaurant proprietors and head waiters say this year's American Am-erican tourist crot is not of the munl-f.cient munl-f.cient pre-war variety. Of the per-( sons and enterprises that usually wax fat . on tourists rushes the steamship companies nr.- the only ones which havo no complaint, for as yet there Is r:o steamship substitute for trans-Atlantic travel, and they have seldom. If ever, eclipsed ails year's business. 1 But once landeu on Lnglish soil, this year's tourist has comported himself quit) differently from the old tlmi r n ho made the American traveler known for his lavish tips, reckless buy Ing of jewels and lothlng and undls-crlminate undls-crlminate purchaus of curios, ' gen-ulno gen-ulno or otherwise NOT SPENDING MONEY Instead of buying trunks full of api axel hero th? 1922 tourist Is brlnfr-Ing brlnfr-Ing n t s i olothes ;'l"nc an.l doing bis sightseeing from "rubber necks," charahlncs lnsteaa of from the privately pri-vately hlrd motor cars of former y.-urs. According to I he waiters, the present pres-ent day tourists have trimmed their tips to a scant 10 per cent of their Mils In fact arc outdone by British and continental patrons In the matter of tlppinp The hotel managers note a marked decrease In the number of miTb.-m tourlstn xvho travel de luxe xx Ith their families and retinue of servants ser-vants " nlx s few of these most fortunately fortun-ately situated apparently can afford to travel in such stale nowadays." was the plaint of one m mager |