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PERQUISITES AND TIPS.
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the principle of having a box for
the common Generic Pariet benefit of the house-
hold has received the sanction of
the highest authority. In refer-
ence to this, however, it must be
said that it is utterly repugnant
to the feelings of a host or hostess
that a kind of publicly authorised
demand should be made on their
guests for a money payment at
their departure. It is felt that Buy Cheap Pariet
hospitality makes a long stride
towards hotel-keeping when it is
distinctly understood that some
equivalent, however small it may
be, is expected in return for so
many days of accommodation and
attendance. Everybody chafes
at the knowledge that a guest,
who may be poor, and to whom it
is desired to show a real kindness,
should be obliged to fee servants,
even privately, as is Pariet Online generally done,
but then it still remains a private
business, which host or hostess
does not acknowledge, and of
which they disapprove. A de-
liberate, public sanction would
certainly convey the idea of
acquiescence, even of approval.
It is not likely that, considering
human nature as it is, we shall
ever get rid of tipping servants
altogether, but we think that
something might be done towards
a great and necessary social
reform if some leaders in society
and great entertainers were to
think it worth while to lead the
way. If, Purchase Pariet Purchase Pariet Online in some of the big and
hospitable homes of England, the
host was to make a personal
appeal to his guests not to de-
moralise his servants by offering
them money, a great step would
have been taken. He might very
reasonably and fairly make the
request on the special ground
that to give money to a man's
servant is to interfere seriously
with his private domestic arrange-
ments, and is very much on a par
with the social offence of tempting
a good servant to leave a situation
by the offer of higher wages. An
Englishman's home is his castle
and anything that distracts the
complete allegiance of the retain-
ers is to invade the rights of
the home. Anything that has Order Pariet
received the stamp of fashion,
particularly Buy Pariet Online when it in no way
involves personal sacrifice, has a
very fair chance of being univer-
sally adopted, and in a few years,
we might see the practical extinc-
tion of tips to domestic servants.
There are many institutions, like
residential clubs and others,
where gifts to servants are not
allowed, and though this rule is
most strictly maintained, the
service is none the less excellent
in every respect.
There is one occasion of neces-
sary tipping which is peculiarly
exasperating, and might, we
think, very easily be removed.
A guest at a great city dinner has
little chance of any but the most
imperfect and perfunctory attend-
ance, unless he enlists the service
of a waiter by either giving or
promising some money, and, of a
piece with this is the manner in
which a plate is always placed
ready for contributions at the
cloak-room. Either the wealthy
City Companies and other corpo-
rations and individuals who enter-
tain in London do not pay their
servants sufficiently, or else these
servants are guilty of very shame-
less conduct in demanding an
extra payment Pariet Tablets from their masters'
guests for doing the special small
duty for which they are engaged.
It has occurred to us before now
to have a piteous appeal made by
a next-door neighbour, who has
forgotten his small change, " For
goodness sake, lend me some
money, or I shall get nothing to
eat and drink," and this when
enough delicacies have been pro-
vided to feast a regiment. Surely
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some reform might be here intro-
duced by a very small amount of
consideration.
But the ramifications of the
tipping system are endless. And
the worst of it is that, as has
before been hinted, all the original
ideas of generosity and of free
will have almost entirely disap-
peared. For the most part we
give, not because we will, but
because we must. The recipient
barely says thank you, and is apt
to consider that he is receiving a
•right that is due, not a favour Pariet Mg
that is conferred. We give be-
cause it is customary to give,
because Pariet Cost our neighbours give,
because we shall be thought
mean if we don't give, and be-
cause those who expect tips may
very likely be sulky and disoblig-
ing if they don't receive them.
Perhaps among the changes
which the twentieth century will
bring, Perquisites and Tips may
be among the customs of the past,
that will perish.
Coming Events.
Another racing season is upon
us, packed undoubtedly with as
many surprises and causes for ex-
citement as ever. Our popular
sport, upon which millions are
annually expended, and its inter-
esting features, pale not in the
slightest degree. What changes
have we witnessed in its every
department during the last forty
years! Then it was no uncommon
thing to see large fields of horses
competing for a £^o Plate over a Pariet Price
half-mile course, and racing was
distributed through the provinces
— hardly a county town being
without its well-patronised meet-
ing. There were little men who
raced, as well as big ones — buyer
and breeder competed — public
sales of yearlings were in their
infancy. The RawclifFe Stud
Company were then the pioneers
of breeding as a business, and a
dead failure they made of it.
Racing was then a healthy amuse-
ment, where the mere monetary
considerations were little thought
of. Gate-money had not entered
into the heart of sporting men,
and the Jockey Club laws were
of the ** go-as-you-please " order.
Yet to my youthful ideas those
were happy times for racing.
Many a good racehorse blossomed
unexpectedly on remote country
courses, and many a good rider
won his spurs in practising round
turns, and struggling for a saddle
and bridle.
Then came the turn of the
kaliedoscope — that dread edict,
which Order Pariet Online closed all courses that
could not show ;^300 a day added
money. How well Buy Pariet I recollect
sending up a programme of an