renders, inclusive of the service
which it furnishes through employees.

"Each hotel shall post a copy of this Act in each room and each
restaurant, cafe and barber shop shall post at least two copies
of this Act in two conspicuous places in their places of
business, and each railroad company shall post two copies of
this Act in their waiting rooms and passenger rooms at passenger
stations in cities of three thousand inhabitants or more, and
each sleeping car and dining car shall have posted therein at
least one copy of this Act.

"Any person or corporation failing to post as required shall be
fined not less than ten dollars for such failure and each day of
failure shall constitute a separate and distinct offense and any
person violating any of the other provisions of this Act shall
be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than
one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for not exceeding thirty
days."

This South Carolina law was an evident effort to cover the custom of
tipping in a manner that would permit of no evasions. It defines a "tip"
and prohibits surreptitious gratuities and makes employer, employee and
patron equally liable to prosecution. Yet, it falls short of an ideal
law because its operations are limited to seven places frequented by the
public and does not cover private places where the itching palm
flourishes, such as apartment houses and boarding houses.

To stop tipping in hotels, restaurants, cafes, dining cars, railroad
stations and cars, sleeping cars or barber shops will be a long stride
in the right direction, but the need of stopping tipping to messenger
boys, janitors and other employees of apartment houses, maids and
waitresses in boarding houses, garbage collectors, mail carriers and
policemen among government employees, trunk transfermen, guides,
steamship employees and others too numerous to cite, is fully as urgent.

THE IDEAL LAW

The ideal act will be evolved through these repeated approximations and
through experience. In a broad outline it must include (1) a clear
definition of a tip, (2) a statement of a patron's right to service for
one payment exclusively to the proprietor, (3) a prohibition against
subterfuges in the charges whereby patrons may give tips, (4) the wages
paid by an employer to be considered as presumptive evidence of his
attitude toward tipping, (5) a requirement that employers shall