THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933.
P. & O.-British India Apcar and
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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
CARGO FOR
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MANTUA
RAWALPINDI
ALIPORE
**SOMALI
RANPURA
RAJPUTANA
RANCHI CARTHAGE
BANGALORE
**BHUTAN
From
About
Tona Hong Kong
1931.
6.500 24th June 11,000 1st July 17,000 15th July 6,000 20th July 0,800 22nd July
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
'burg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
& Hull.
Marseilles, Havre, London, BR'dam, Antwerp 17,000 12th Aug. bay. Afarseilles & London.
17,000 20th July
6,000 19th Aug. 17.000 26th Aug, 14,000 9th Sept.
H'burg, 6,000, 16th Sept Bombay,
jaw,
KEPT
THE CHINA MAIL.
WAITING
(Continued from page 7.)
THE TROUBLES OF TIPPING Continental System Adoption Urged.
TEN PER CENT ON, BILL
(By X. M. BOULESTIN.)
London.
But he would hate to clout so familiar? Calling Beryl pet Beryl's jaw. Somehow, he didn't names in his presence, too! The think she would understand that young man seethed with a sense of such technique was well-intentioned injustice. Ordinarily decent stand-
Seeking Inspiration.
ards seemed to have gone topsy- He looked around him, rather turvy to-night. Had all people"
A great deal has been written helplessly, as though seeking ins-gone off their heads? Well, he'd lately about what people are pleased piration from the swirling crowds.. had just about enough of it. Now to call "the tipping problem." which They passed on in an endless, he was going to put his foot down. in fact is a problem entirely of uncaring procession-like shades
Terrific Disillusion.
their own making. These people rushing on into eternity, Now "Look here, Beryl, you can't treat are equally critical (and afraid) of there was a strange thing to think me just as you like! If you think the other system, which consists of about them! That was the second I'm going to stand for
putting 10 per cent, on the bill. time to-night he had caught himself) But Beryl was not listening. Her
Speaking as a customer and as an thinking queer things. That bump eyes were hard again, her, small employer, it has always been a on the head must have dazed him mouth set in a mercenary line. mystery to me why this admirable a bit.
"Geoffrey's the sort of man system is not practised in England, How on earth could he make ought to marry. Plenty of money, for it works perfectly well in Beryl come out of the sulke? It A good time. Heaps of clothes France, in Italy, and in Germany. was so silly to stand here on the r'd like that flat of his. Wonder if The traveller in a foreign country,! pavement saying nothing at all. · 7 ought to have gone for that week- unacquainted with the money and A man sidled along the pavement end to Brighton with him! Per possibly the language, has nothing towards them a man with a loose haps that put him of. Men are to bother about, no complicated mouth and a leer. His eyes gleam funny that way. Ought to have cakulations to make, no anxiety in ed at Beryl, his gaze fastening it kept him anticipating.
his mind about his giving too much
+1
self first on her legs and then shift- The light of a terrific disillusion or too little. ing slowly upwards. Now he was suddenly burst on the young man.
There is the right amount plainly ; having the darned Impudence to Amazement, a sick sense of mental written on his bill. All he has to smile at Beryl! Damn the fellow! repulsion, and then anger surged do is to pay, with the satisfaction of Wasn't a girl safe from such prow-within him.
knowing that he is doing the right ¦lers even if she had her fiance with
Beryl had not spoken, but by thing. her? He could read his horrid some curious faculty her mind had!
Put On The Bill. thoughts.
the fellow's mind?
16,000 23rd Sept. y. Durg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hall. The was crazy. It was that bump on, digging with lies on her lips.
NALDERA CORFU +*SOUDAN
14,000 7th Oct.
MANTUA RAWALPINDI **BURDWAN
COMORIN CHITRAL
& London, mbay, Marseilles & London.
London, Hamburg,
Bombay,
Hare
6,800 14th Oct. Marselam. Antwerp & Hull,
the head.
been laid open to him for a moment All over Italy, in practically all The young man felt white-hot-just as the thoughts of that leer- the French provincial hotels and mind the fellow had! Mind? That bump on the head, by some Paris hotels, it is done, and every with indignation. What a beastly ing prowler had been unveiled. restaurants, in most second-class what did the young man know about peculiar freak, had given him the body is satisfied. In Germany 10 power to read her thoughts. Yes, per cent. is also added in cafes to Look here, this was too queer for that must be it. words. The young man had read
your cup of coffee, you glass of The little rotter! So all the time beer; there in a definite charge for his rotten thoughts just as though he, poor fool! had been slaving each package the porter carries for ay, Marzeilles & London. they had been given audibility. away through these months she had you at the station. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,! What with Beryl standing here been thinking things like that.
H'burg. It'dam, Antwerp & Hull. saying nothing, and him finding
Even in the International Alley & London.
The Shattering Truth.
Wagons-Lits there is now a list of Marseilles, Havre, London, himself thinking he was
reading Deceiving him right and left the tips you should give the com- R'dam, Antwerp & Hull, other people's thoughts, he'd
go Never hesitating to get all she troleur, according to the distance Marseilles, Havre, London, quite crazy in a minute. Perhaps could out of other men. Gold-
you are travelling-which is in finitely better for all concerned than And he had wanted to marry herla tip which may be too large or too "I do feel queer, Beryl," he told Marry her!-a self-seeking, little small, according to your mood, your her. But she showed
the_little not
trollops who wouldn't habits or your ignorance. alightest concern. She just went on hesitate to throw him over for a No one can object to 10 per cent. ignoring him, standing there under man with more money if she had It is reasonable, far more reason- the lamp.
the chance! Well, she wouldn't able, than giving a sixpenny tip on Hang it all! was she going to keep throw him over, because he was the a sixpenny fare for being driven in this up all night? Sulking only one who was going to do the throw a bumpy taxicab. The made things worse, anyway. ing over.
|spends £1 on his meal will not mind Suddenly, she smiled. But not atj Having the nerve to sulk with him his bill being 22s, while the man Ther fiance-or at that leering fellow, because he was late through no, who spends 5s only scores, for pro-
who was stinking away.
fault of his own! He'd show her bably in certain places he would not Beryl was smiling at a stranger he wasn't such a fool as she seemed dare to leave less than Is: who had just raised his bat to her, to think. He'd give her a piece of Moreover, in spite of statements ja suave-looking man in evening his mind and she'd take notice of to the contrary, the staff are satis dress. She seemed to know him him then all right. And she could fed, and do not expect any extra well. In fact, had ahe not been go on standing under the lamp for money. To speak about the Beryl, the young man would have all he cared.
try I know beat-France-people thought that she almost ogled the That was strange. He looked up constantly say to me, "Ah! but you stranger.
at a clock and the hands still stood are French;
you are treated
Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London,
11,000 21st Oct. 16,000 4th Nov. 6,000 11th Nov.
15,000 18th Nov. 15,000 2nd Dec.
* Cargo only. Calls -Casablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinopla Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SANTHIA TAKADA SIRDHANA
TALMA TILAWA SANTHIA TAKADA
1953.
8,000 26th June. Singapore, Pening & Calcutta, 8,000 10th July | Singapore, Penang. 'goon & C'eutta, 7,000 22nd July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 6th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 19th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,
8,000
2nd Sopt.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 16th Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
man who
oun-
"Oh!-hullo! Beryl."
at half-past seven. Must have stop differently." This is entirely un- "Hullo! Geoffrey." There was a ped. It seemed ages since he had true; for how many times have I tender note in her voice. And she bumped his head just after seven seen in the provinces luggage taken turned her back on her fiance to Suddenly he saw a news-bill:
down to a foreign car, packed in, greet the, stranger.
CITY BUS
and the maid or the boy wishing a] SMASH:
smiling "bon voyage" in a perfectly straightforward way, and not at all in an expecting manner.
Over-Tipping.
"I have to dash along. Promised I'd look in at some silly dinner- party or other. See you some time,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, darlin"."
1933.
FOUR KILLED.
Then the cold truth seized him. He had not escaped that bus smash. The check of it! He'd "see her, Beryl took no notice of him becatise Įsome time," indeed! Beryl could she could not see him, `She did not),
sulk if she liked, but it was a bit know he was there. To her, he which they themselves do not quite
wasn't there.
1st July
Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & thick to insult him like this. 8,000 2nd Sept.
Melbourne. 7,000 30th Sept.
What right had that fellow to be He was dead. 3rd Nov.
NANKIN
7,000
NELLORE
7,000
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
7,000 8,000
2nd Dec.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Yet some people, for some reason
define, like over-tipping.They will give even if they are asked not to do so, which spoils the whole system, though, needless to say, if you asked a member of the staff to do for you something a little special, a tip should be given.
Over-tipping, or tipping when you
Telegrams sent via Radio for Addressees in China may be ad- are not supposed to do it, is a bad
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New dressed to Telephone Numbers.
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Cana).
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
SIDHANA
RANPURA
NELLORE *BANGALORE AJPUTANA
MANCHI
TILAWA TANDA
BHUTAN CARTHA
HAGE SANTHIA TAKADA NALBERA NANKIN **SOUDAN
CORFU MANTUA "BURDWAN RAWALPINDI
1914
7,003 29th June 17,000 29th June. 7,000 6th July.
6.000 12th July.
18th
17.000 10,000 - 13th
17,000 27th July 10,000 27th July 8,000 6th Aug. DEG. AUR. 6.000
9th Aug.
14,000 10th Aug... 8,000 10th Aug
8,000 24th Aug. 16,000 24th Aug
Brd Sept
7,000 6,800 5th Sept. 14,000 7th Sept. 11,000 21st Sept
6,100
4th – Det. 17,000 5th Oct.
* Cargo only
Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Ozaka Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Thama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai. Kobe & Yokohama
Moft, Robe Shal
'A` Osaka, Shanghal, Kobe &
Yokohama. Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shai, Moji, Kobe, Dsaka & T'hams.
Kobe &
Amoy
Amoy,
145 32 kobe &
Amoy, S'ha
Moji
Yokohama Yokohama Mall, Kobe & Oanks.
Kobe Moll
& OME Kobe & Yokohama..
& Yhama.
Shanghal, Moji Ro
Kobe & Yokokami.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
ras Kobe & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. "All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre System
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In the days when the pound was. worth over 200tr. I have, seen foreigners giving 2017, to a porter for carrying a small suit-case from the boat to the train. It was a care- Jess gesture and unintentionally jscornful; it was, to say the least, in bad taste. It may have been only a few pence in English money, but to the porter It was 20ft., and at least twice as much as he would bave received from a Frenchman,
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be argued that the ware sufficient and fixed. There is restaurants, for instance, had to traveller does not care about the no doubt that they would not be "stand" the rather excessive sum opinion a porter may have of him, antisfied with it, that they would be that a "commis," an apprentice, ex- Yet if he behaves in the same man- always wondering how much they pects for his unskilled labour, (cons ner in a hotel where he is staying, are missing, and feeling that they aiderably more than the salary of an he may find that his motiveless were not paid according to their office boy, who baldes is not fed) generosity is a definite "encourage work which may be one day Fery and the large sum that an expert ment for the bad Instincts that may light, the following day exhausting, maitre d'hotel is worth-well, be latent in those who are looking ly heavy.N
after him. A fixed price prevents
[all possible, unpleasantness, and it
There the ten per cent;
work admirably, for
should think that most restaurants again would have to close, unless, by some miracle the burden of overhead arges were suddenly decreased." But who is going to begin? Who going to denounce the folly of a okey be the megalo- of
is a great pity that somebody.az-im-would-proft at the same time and- portance does not take the Initiative in the same proportion
of practising this system in Eng establishments treate Jand
Anyhow, even if the staff were shortsighted. It has also been said that the satished with a fixed living wags, it ma habit of tipping is a degrading one, is definitely out of the question. It and that in hidals and restaurants wages had to be paid in the time walters should be paid a living way as a shop pays assisataate
ous circle