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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Well, well, what next? But, after all, you can't blame them. We Americans come over here and hand them our pocket-books, and we ought to be glad if we get anything back at all. The way a man has to tip is something fearful." "Isn't it, though! I stayed in Dresden a week, and when I left there were six grafters lined up with their claws out. First came the porteer. Then came "
"How much did you give the porteer?" "Five marks." "You gave him too much. You ought to have given him about three marks, or, say, two marks fifty. How much was your hotel bill?" "Including everything?" "No, just your bill for your room." "I paid six marks a day." "Well, that made forty-two marks for the week.
Once you let the porteer see that you know the ropes, he'll pass the word on to the others, and you'll be treated like a native." "I see. But how about the elevator boy? I gave the elevator boy in Dresden two marks and he almost fell on my neck, so I figured that I played the sucker." "So you did.
"It looks easy, anyhow. But you haven't got much time to do all that figuring." "Well, let the porteer wait. The longer he has to wait the more he appreciates you." "But how about the others?" "It's just as simple. Your chambermaid gets a quarter of a mark for every day you have been in the hotel. But if you stay less than four days she gets a whole mark anyhow.
Now the way to figure out how much the porteer ought to get is easy: a fellow I met in Baden-Baden showed me how to do it. First, you multiply your hotel bill by two, then you divide by twenty-seven, and then you knock off half a mark. Twice forty-two is eighty-four! Twenty-seven into eighty-four goes about three times, and a half from three leaves two and a half. See how easy it is?"
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