JIPS: HEIR«.GIVERS "AND RECEIVERS.
* In view of what H. E: Mr.F, H. May said to the scholars at the Queen's College prize ́distribution yesterday, the following cutting from
· the Shanghai Mercury should be of interest :- The origin of the word "tip" is doubtful, though it is said to have arisen from some such notice as the following, which used to be found in old-fashioned hostelries: "To Insure Polite ners, visitors should hand the waiter a small fee." The initial letters of the first three words make up the term which to many a traveller has become the synonym of one of the worst of modern nuisances. Travel has many draw. backs which are unavoidable naturally, but it is probably not going too far to say that this artifi ial one of constantly having to put one's hand in one's pocket to pay for services already paid for, is by far the worst. The ever-present feeling that one is being "done," and the accompanying sense of helplessness' as one is being fleeced makes the payment of t'ps an almost unbearable imposition.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1904.
doubt as to the amount to be paid, no abase- ment on the part of the receiver, nor soreness on the part of the giver. It is not the amount that one expends in tips that rankles but the certain that the whole system is based on robbery and is inconsistent on both sides with that manly uprightness that one liker to have to deal with through life. In charity the dictum still holds: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." In tipping, the curse is equally divided. He who gives what isn't earned is'a fool, be who accepts it, a knave.
THE POSITION OF WOMEN
IN BURMA.
I have travelled in various countries, in West
All those who read "The Soul of a People" will remember the fascinating picture which the author drew of the position of women in Burma. It was therefore with very great interest I turned too the article on the same subject which ap. pears in the first number of Buddhism, an article which is all the more interesting because Fit is written by a farmese lady. According to Selfishness was largely to blame for the beher, the position of women in urma deserves ginning of tipping. The wealthy man not
all the good things tha! were said of it by Mr. satisfied with such attention as he deserved in Fielding. She says:—. common with his fellow-travellers bought more by bihery. Everybody who did not want to be left entirely without attention had to follow his example, and thus crew up the vicious system in vogue at the present time. Some few, comparatively, gave out of the largeness of their hearts, and not for favour received, but, as we have said, the great majority of cases could, and can, only be rightly described either as bribery, in earlier days, or as extortion now, If it were not quite so exasperating it would be highly amusing to see the clever tactics of the hotel bangers-on when a visitor is on the point of leaving. The sturdier type of English
man is above such fawaing littleness as is needed to carry off these manoeuvres with any thing appronching dignity, and this may be one of the reasons why one finds in travelling about the world an ever-lessening number of waiters of English descent.
and East alike; and have seen something of the lives the women of those countries lead;; have heard something of their sorrows, of their ambitions, and of their desires. And there is one thing that I know, better than aught else in life-that I would sooner be a Burmese wor man than one of any other land-sooner live the sweet and happy life of the Burmers village girl than that of the proudest in the Nations of the West..
she attributes entirely to Buddhism, and to the This pre-eminent felicity of Burmese women fact that every Burmese child learns before she the formola of Burmese-Pali devotion :— can understand what the words mean to lisp
Okasa, Okasa, Okasa, „take refuge in the Three Most Precious Things Never, either by Thought or Word or Act may I bring harm to any living thing, nor steal, commit impurity, nor lie. Whatever wrong I do; may 1 be pardoned by the Sacred Three:-The Jewel of the Buddha, the Jewel of the Law, the Jewel of the Order of the Yellow Robel
The formula probably has very little to do with it; but as another writer in the same re. view says:➡
From an ethical point of view thera is not word to be said in favour of tipping. Unlike mercy, it curves him that gives and him that takes. Honest service should be honestly paid for, and what the proper rate should be arranged according to the hotel-keeper, not the hotel-guest is the right person to decide upon what is the fit and proper remuneration for handing round dinner plates, checking bag- Buddhism is the only great religion in which gage, and the like, and he sholud see to it that the infurious distinction between the sexes are his staff are paid according to their deserts, entirely absent; and where; as in Burma, that and that his charges to visitors are made in religion is thoroughly practised and lived up accordance therewith. Bow ill are the effects to, women are in every respect as free as men on the temper of the payer must be free in the holding of property, free to claim well known to all who have bad expe❘ divorce on the same grounds as men, having rience in Western travel, That they are an equal claim with men upon their children- equally harmful to the recipients is not less plain. It goes against the grain with us la encourage sycophancy and the practice al politeness for what is to be got out of it. We look on all such as take naturally to these things as being on a lower level. There is an honour in a well-earned wage; there is nothing but degeneracy in a bribe.
There was a time when, in China and some other Eastern lands, this essentially Western vice had not as yet taken hold. We regret to say that day is past. There was a time when the ordinary native expected to be paid what he considered a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, and he neither looked for nor expected anything more. That was the time of plain, bonest dealing between man and man. Each respected the other for what he was; each knew that he could make a bargain with the certainty of its being fairly carried out
freer by far in all essential points than are their sisters of the Western Nations.
Perhaps it is on account of this that "true Burmans hold ourselves the greatest of all the nations of the earth, because, we think, we en- joy life the best."
The Burmese lady, writing on the condition of her sister, says (~~
There are but few Burmese women, even in the villages, who are unable to read and write, and this is indeed essential in a land where a large proportion of the retail trade of the country is in women's hands. Bud character of the Burmese woman, and has made dhiam, and Buddhism alone, has formed the her life happy, busy, and intellectual. I say happy, busy, and intellectual in this order, be cause if there is anything one can say wilbout fear of criticism it is that the Burmese maiden according to contract. The idea of request full share in the up-keep of her home; and that is happy, that the Burmese wife is busy, taking ing a douceur for ordinary 'duty was as foreign the old lady is Intellectual, finding her chief to the self-respecting native as it was to the self-respecting Englishman. Then delight in discussing the intricacies of the
arose the "cumshaw" custom, and from its introduction may be dated the growth of the desire for tips in Shanghai and elsewhere bids fair to be as great a nuisance bere as it is in any country in Europe or America.
Buddhist Philosophy.
•
Marriage, in Burma, is not a religious, but a secular function,-it is a compact on the part of husband and wife which is made before the elders of the village, and which, for proper Little can now be got here in the way of cause shown, can be terminated by either party, service without a request for a cumsbaw, and And the causes sufficient for the breaking of the native has improved an the system in the the marriage tie are very different from, and West. There the tip-hunter is usually content much more numerous than, those which pre- with a more or less plain hint that his palm vail in the Western lands. Drunkenness, the suffers from that itching sensation which is opium habit (worst of all follies in Burmese only effectually assuaged by judicious applica- eyes), spendthrift ways, or differences of tem- tion of palm oil. Here, there is made a plain-perament, are all, if proved, a sufficient 'cause #poken demand, "Give me so-and-10; or 1 for the elders to grant a divorce; and yet, in won't serve you at all." This would be all spite of this freedom, or perhaps because the very well were a bargain being made between very case of it makes the marriage bond more the foreigner and the native in question, but easy, the proportion of divorced to married when it is, for example, a matter between the couples is very small in Burma-which is the foreigner who hires a carriage from a livery best proof of all of the loving and faithful nature stable and the mafoo who drives, it is a very of the Burmese, men and women aliko, different matter. We have heard of cases lately where the mafoo has distinctly said that he wouldn't obey the foreigner's orders unless ba; got a cumshaw, and this, notwithstanding the fact that the foreigner had nothing whatever to do with the driver but only his master, to whom be paid the vanal hire. Squeeze," ar we all know, is the national failing in China,; but foreigners in China will have themselves to thank if they put up with this sort of thing. || Maloos are not alone in their efforts to make hay while the sun shines. They are perhaps At good examples as may be met with in a day's march, but landaks run them pretty closely.
1. There used to be such a thing amongst fore- igners as refusal to give more than the ordinary
· zate of pay in order not to spoil the murkel for others. This good old rule should never baj lost sight of, and should out of consideration for their poorer neighbours be particularly re membered by those who are rich,
In all that we have said, we bare so desire. whatever to prevent such rises in pay as the Himes require. There most of necessity he'an dvance in the wages of matoos, laodabs, and the like, just as thera, has
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