When you spend Sunday in the country, the proper schedule of tips for the servants is as follows:
| Chauffeur | $10.00 |
| Butler | 10.00 |
| Coachman | 5.00 |
| Footman | 3.00 |
| Valet | 5.00 |
| Cook | nothing |
| Maid | 2.00 |
| Chambermaid | 2.00 |
| Strapper | 1.00 |
| Groom | 2.00 |
| Total | 40.00 |
Should you, however, have but $30 with you, you have but to take a very early train, in which case the butler will not have appeared, and there will be no necessity to tip him. The resourceful bachelor may also decide to compensate the maid, if she be pretty, by a few pleasant words of appreciation as to her beauty and by chucking her under the chin, as is invariably done on the stage in comic opera.
If your visit has been for a week, the above table of tips should be disregarded. At the end of such a visit you had best hand the housekeeper a letter of introduction to your lawyer, together with a list of your securities, and allow her to sue your estate for the gratuities.
(If you are from Pittsburg, care should be taken to double the above table of tips.)
The dressing gong is sometimes meant to convey the impression that dinner will shortly be served in the banqueting hall. Usually, however, it is the signal for everybody to begin a new rubber.
Try to go early to the stables and select a good riding horse for the rest of your visit. There are seldom more than two good ones. The rest are usually roarers or crocks.