A History Of Tipping

Greg Beato supplies one:

These days, the idea of not tipping is almost as impossible tocomprehend as the idea of paying for news. Who does that? Crazy people?Criminals? ... Things were much different a century ago. Between 1909 and 1926, six states passed laws that made tipping illegal. Restaurants posted"Tipping is not American!" signs in their dining rooms. In a republicwhere the waiter was the political and moral equal of the millionairefactory owner, each endowed with the same essential...