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ever expect to make any personal acquaintance. A 

 moderate bill for a day's entertainment will read thus : 



*. d. 



Tea (bread and butter or toast) 1 



Bed 1 6 



Breakfast (rasber of bacon, eggs, or cold meats) 1 6 



Dinner 2 6 



Waiter 9 



Chambermaid 6 



Boots . . 03 



Total 8 



These are about the average charges at the middle-class 

 hotels in Great Britain. Generally the servants' fees 

 amount to 25 per cent, of the whole bill. These, too, 

 are graduated to parts of days. The waiter expects 3d. 

 for every meal he serves ; the chambermaid 6d. for 

 every bed she makes, and the boots 3d. for doing every 

 pair of boots, brogans, or shoes. You will pay these 

 charges with all the better grace and good- will to these 

 servants when you come to learn that these fees fre- 

 quently, if not always, constitute all the salary they 

 receive for hotel service. Even in a great number of 

 eating-shops the same rule obtains. The penny you 

 give the waiter, male or female, is all he or she gets for 

 serving you. Besides this consideration, you get back 

 much additional personal comfort from these extras. 

 The waiter serves you with extra satisfaction and 

 assiduity under their stimulus. He acts the host very 



