WHERE "TIPPING" IS JUSTIFIED.
Opponents of the "tipping system" —and there are many—would find much to quarrel with at the hotels in Japan, for there everybody engaged, from the proprietor downwards, expects a gratuity from a departing guest, ""ty'hen," says a traveller in the Mikado's country, "you leave a Japanese hotel, you wrap up in a piece of paper a sum equivalent to about one-fifth of the amount oi your bill, and hand it to the hotel-keeper. Then you wrap up smaller gratuities in other pieces of paper for the servants. It ttccm* an extortion until you learn tho reason. Hotel charges in Japan are forced by law to he very low, so that the pooi ; man shall not he shut out. Rich men pay no more than the poorest, and as no hotel-keeper could livo on the regulation charges alone, well-to-do guests cheerfully comply with the custom of giving gratuities, to equalise matters."
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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154WHERE "TIPPING" IS JUSTIFIED. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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