On the train the Negro porter expects as minimum a quarter-dollar for his daytime about his wife ana piccaninnies down in Kentucky, and been unfailingly mellow throughout the trip.
For a several-day trip an average of thirty cents for each twenty-four hours is usual. If you use the services of the Negro manicurist, the lounge-car steward, the ladies' maid, or.others of the extra-frill attendants you naturally would be expected to be a freely spending lady who would sprinkle dimes and quarters, but the average travel-a lo Si NTHOP" ler does not call for a shower-bath or a stenographer or a shampoo, on the train, If you are trying to eat economically outside the dining-car, and therefore buy cheese or chicken sandwiches and coffee in paper cartons from the salesman who parades at intervals down the aisles, you do not need to tip him, but you do tip-the Pullman porter if he brings a tray to your seat.
Guides In an American city you would never tip a lift-boy or a store attendant, and you would feel.less than the dust if you offered a dime to a uniformed porter outside one of the big New York stores. If he does you some service just thank him or offer him at least a quarter, reflecting that he probably gets a good salary, to say nothing of Chri mas presents from Park Lane millionaires The guides at Radio City are the stature of Guardsmen and often are merel acting guides between college and a career, so they do not leave the tourist with the uncomfortable feeling that he shauld have tipped them.
Unfortunately there is no all-covering rule to tip by, but usage decrees certain do's and don't. Don't tip at all if you tip less than the regulation dime—that is, the ten-cent piece approximating the British sixpence.
There is one exception, the street shoeshine boy who trails you in the parks and shines your shoes dazzlingly for a nickel—that is, twopence-halfpenny.
If he charms you with his down-town patter and you feel like giving him an extra nickel he is delighted, and you, incidentally, have tipped 100 per cent. But if you get a shoeshine in a regular shoeshine parlour the conventional charge is a dime and you do not need to tip.
In the barber's shop combined with the shoeshine parlour never tip the proprietor when you get a shingle-trim, but many clients do tip assistants a dime. I know some American women who tip a Negro barber assistant or a Negro beauty shop assistant, but not a white one.
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