Tips To Servants

A Paris journal. discoursing of Ups o serrante In private houses both in ngrland and on the continent, says that t ia difficult for one to for:.i an idea of the enormous sums in the way of gratuities absorbed by domestica employt'd in the homes of the Englisb aristocracy. Ci ;. ! the rsmount realized annually by the butler of a rich resident of Grosvenor square, London. Ths individual -fecelves in tips from visitors the sum of L1,000, or $5,000 In Bddltlon to his pay. The Prince of Wales, who is naturally a heavy sufferer from exactions of this kind, has undertaken, so far as Sandrlngton house is concerned, to abolish Hip custoin. He has Rlven orders, aecording to the French journal, that any servan. whu accepts ; gratuity from a visitor shall be promptly dismissed. Tht Duohesses of Rutland and Portland have decided to pursue a similar course This habit oftipplng servants employed in private houses l.as, of course, been largely imitated an.i abusad in this country. In the matter of a visit to a private house or a stay at a hotel, in the way of the flguratively extended palms, there is llttle to choore. Labouchere, n ho ms wrlten on this subject in Truth, is of the opinión that it ís more economical to stop at the most expensive hotel than to accept hospitality at an üngiish country or town house. He refers not only to the grratuities expected by the servants, 'out to other exactions which are extremely irksome and costly. It would save trouble and annoyance if a hotel should in addition to its regular charges, insert in the bilí a stated amount for tips to be distributed pro rata by the proprietor.