A Tariff Of Tips

Períodically tlie qnestion of tips to servauts crops up, and we aro now in one oí' these recurrent periods. Tiie otlier ctfty, flnd'mg inyselt' in the eompany of .overal gentlemen who visit a gooa deal it coiunry-hoiiaes, I inquireá of tliem what tKey thought was tlie arorage amount that ought to be g'iven by a gitcat to tlie sierran tü of his host. This' tM the conclusión : if without a servant, 1'Js. to the mnid who 'ratete for any period above one iiiíflit; aml 6s, for tle oie nijhL ; beiug driven to the staliou, 3s. 6d. to tlie grooni nr coadunan; for one day's sliootinjí, l"=. to the head-fceoper; for aevernl day'a s'iooting, L' to the head-keeper-; los. lo the lotulpi' for one (Liy,:")x. per diuni í'or sereral days ; il witli a servant, 2-;. 6d. ought to b given !)y him to the housemaid, and notliin inore to any idor.r eorrant. In no c-iss should anythiiig be be&towed on the blund bmlr, who appewi wlth an itcliing mim to speed the partjng gucst. lüiiy, liowever, ffire inore tlian thi; they present the butler with a BOVereign, and boatow ns nmch as L5 on the jrunekeeper. My friendg, howevcr, wonied thee 6Xtravagances as neitlier expeeted nor desirnblc. "It a little dependa," obgerved one of thojn, "on whethot I think that l am likely to come bíick." And he then reltited the following siory : Tlie late Mr. George P.iyne was at the coiintry-lion.-e of a nobleniHii. lle had bccu out shooting Tith inothei' gueat, a man of many TÍrtoes Uut the one vice of being unsiipportable. Tuis gnest asked Mr. l'uyne what hc meant to give the keeper. "Five pounds," replied Mr. l'ayno. "Surely," s.'iid the guest, "that is too miicli ; I think that I sluill not give him more tlian L2." "Well, to teil you tho truth," opined Mr. Payne, "you would do betier lo give hlm nothing, lor tliey were lalking about you at the house yesterday evening and üiey docided nover to asü you hcre again." Another gontlemau whom 1 consultad about "tip" assuresine that tjie above tarill' is below the average. Fivc pouiid-j iu frequeiHly given to ihe head gamekeeper, and he explains this by saying that, a heavy tip is often rearded as a bribo lor bcing secured a a;ood plüce at a batliie. Tliij gentleman gave a keeper the o tho v da y L5 on etnrting for a battue and the keeper in thanking him suid : "1 am afraid that 1 shall not ho ablo to give you one of the best places for they are all bespoken, but 1 will do wliat I can for you." A i'rieiid of his once notitíed his koepers on thoeommeiicementof the shooting Beason that he would not allow tliem to receive tips, but would put up a box iu the hall into which contribatioas for thein might bo dropped ; they at csice all rosigned. As regards the butler, this friend says that he does not dare to go away without leaving a substantiul mark of his respeet tor that dignified being, and ho also tips tho groom of tho clmmbers in the house wherc this official flourishes. "Fools aud their money soon part," was tlie observation that oconrred to me, but which I was too civil to mako when he reeounted to me what it cost him to visit a coiíitry-house. Audfiman Islond widows wear tho skulls of thoir deoeased husbands on their shoulders. At a recent lecture on ethnoiogy at the Royal College of Burgeons in London, Prof. Flower showed tho skull of an Andamaneso, to which was attached an elegant webbod ling by which it had been. suspende 1 to the widow's neck.