Related article: takes its place in travelling or
in public resorts. We cannot
always tell what the legitimate
earnings of those who serve us
amount to, and it is very doubtful
whether any employers of labour
for the public benefit would be
able to secure such good servants
as they do, if there was not a
well-founded hope that the nomi-
nal earnings would be greatly
increased. Tips may conceivably
be " the protest of the natural
man against a too mechanical
fixity of price for services which,
having a human element in them,
are essentially variable in quality,"
and they may be an irregular
method by which those who are
served complete to its full value
the payment for Terramycin Online skilled labour.
The system of giving them is, in
most respects, to be deprecated,
but it might be difficult to replace
the system, when we have no
immediate connection with those
who give Buy Cheap Terramycin us temporary service.
In private life, however, the
giving of tips has apparently few
or no exonerating circumstances
to plead in its favour. If one
goes to stay in the house of a
friend, it certainly appears most
anomalous that it should be
necessary to fee that friend's ser-
vants for the pleasure of enjoying
his hospitality. Very few people
maintain a staff of servants pro-
portioned to their own require-
ments alone. They pay and feed
many of Purchase Terramycin them, so that they may
be able to entertain their Buy Terramycin Online friends.
If the personal necessities of a
family were all that were to be
provided for, how many domestics
of every description would be
turned loose upon the world to
seek some other means of living.
And yet, though they are kept
entirely for a specific purpose,
they consider themselves entitled
to a very handsome extra remu-
neration for doing their duties,
and it is practically a necessity
that that remuneration should be
given to them. The custom pre-
vails to a greater or less extent
all over the world, but it is prac-
tised in our Purchase Terramycin Online own country on a
more lavish scale than in any
other. House servants and out-
side retainers in large establish-
ments look forward to the visiting
season for the harvest that it
brings, and everybody who is
going to make a round of country
house visits, calculates among
the expenses to be incurred the
vails which must be distributed
before each house is quitted.
Fortunate are the people who,
from long knowledge of the
world, are able to forecast the
amount that their donations will
touch, and have evolved for
themselves a well considered scale
of liberality to which they can
adhere on all occasions. Fortu-
nate, too, are those to whom the
minor expenses of life are of small
importance, and to. whom it
makes little difference whether
they part with a few pounds more
or less.
There are many, however, to
whom the consideration Order Terramycin Online of tips is
a very serious matter. The im-
pecunious young subaltern or the
briefless barrister, who has been
invited for a few days' hunting or
shooting ; the woman who is to
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be one of a house-party for a
country ball, perhaps only receive
one or two invitations in the
course of the year, and, from want
of experience, are much exercised
in their minds as to what should
be reasonable tips. Probably
every shilling is of particular
consequence, and the wish to
do the right thing has to be
balanced against the stern restric-
tions of a poorly supplied pocket.
We believe, however, that most
servants are sharp enough, and
have sufficient good feeling to
recognise that their master's
guests cannot all give alike, and
though they are quite satisfied
that they ought to receive some-
thing from each, they may look
upon half-a-crown given by one
as Order Terramycin being equally liberal with a
sovereign given by another.
One of the greatest faults of
the tipping system is that, after
all, the money does not find its
way in many instances to the
person who has most deserved it.
The solemn butler Buy Terramycin or stately foot-
man has probably given little
service compared to the odd man
or other understrapper who has
really cleaned the boots and
brushed the clothes. The coach-
man who drives the guests to and
from the station does not deserve
a douceur in the same sense as
the stable helper who has to
groom the horses and wash the
carriage, and the head keeper
who drops your sovereigns into
his pocket may very likely not
have done so much for your sport
as his subordinates Generic Terramycin who are in
charge of the different beats.
However, all these potentates
would probably say that they
have themselves begun at the
bottom of the tree, and are enjoy-
ing the sweets of office, to taste
which their inferiors may in time
also aspire.
We have said that people who
are in the habit of going to stay
in country houses have in general
evolved a kind of scale on which
their tips to servants are based.
We do not venture to give our
own ideas of such a scale, for
Baily does not wish to pose as a
social mentor. What we would
protest against is the giving of
ridiculously large sums. There
are some persons in society whose
chief qualification for the position
which they occupy is perhaps the
possession of large means. They
think to accentuate their import-
ance by distributing lavish sums
among their social inferiors, they
may want in some way to be
assisted to get the better of their
fellows, they may even have the
ambition to stand well with a
class whose opinions are not
generally formed on the same
basis as those of their employers,
and should be little considered
outside the high rules of life and
conduct which should influence
ladies and gentlemen. Such
people cause an infinity of worry
to hosts who have a real sense of
hospitality, and who are perhaps
conscious that all their guests do
not get an equal share of atten-
tion in consequence of the surrep-
titious use of the longer purse.
Some time ago there was a
revolt against allowing any indi-
vidual to exercise an undue
influence on servants, and in
many houses a box was estab-
lished in which it was requested
that any presents intended for the
servants might be placed. Xhis
arrangement had the further ad-
vantage also that the sums given
could be distributed among the
whole household, instead of fall-
ing into the hands of the favoured
few. When the Heir Apparent
stays at a country house, he does
not give presents to individual
domestics, but he leaves a sum of
money to be divided among all, so