The Tipping Question

The que.stion of "tipping" seems small enongh in detail, but rather ' portant when exaggerated. A woruau wbo spent last winter in one of the most sumptuous of New York hotels says she invariably gave a quarter to her waiter at breakfast and luncheon, those being nieals taken alone. At dinner time she was juined by her husbaud, who alwaya hauded the servitor 50 cents. Tbe Jatter surn seeraed to evenly iill the man's idea of what was dne him, and bis "Thank you, sir!" was bland and gracious, but the lady's modest qnarters always found their grave in the black waistcoat pocket, with no expression of gratitude frona the recipient's face, which wore a meaning look, as of one who says, "Women are mean, j an never knows 'ow to do the right thing by a man, but one 'as to put up with 'em. " It is only in reckless, good natnred America that optional fees are so much larger thau they ought to be. A dollar, which is a commou enough sum for a man to give at dinner in a fashionable restaurant, would a Frenen waiter stare, although he would have the presence of inind to pocket it quickly. In Paris there is an unwritten scale which apportions 5 per cent on the amount of a customer's bilí as a tip. Thus a person ordering a dinner that costs $2 would, on settling his bill, add 10 cents for the attendant. It is time we had eithor a legal or informal rule governing tips in tuis country, and it is to be hoped that sotue rich persons will help on the reform. It will never be done by those whose means are really small enough to feel the tax, for it is one of the errors of the impecunious to feel obliged to show as much liberality as a millionaire, even if, like the guest in "Charley's Aunt," he has to borrow half a dollar from the