J A London doctor, giving evidence at the Marylebone Police Court, said that within the last few years the standard of new-born children had increased both m weight and height. Children born during the last two years were undoubtedly larger and longer than hitherto. ( 1 iic custom of tipping causes grumbling all over the world, but there seems at last to be a prospect of a revolt against it. In the United States, where the imposition has grown to tremendous proportions, the travelling salesmen of that country distributing seven and a half million sterling a year among hotel servants, a league has 'been formed, and an ultimatum to hotel keepers has been issued. To -effect their purpose the 'commercials" threaten to employ the deadly weapon of the boycott. 'They avow they will avoid all hotels where servants are not placed upon a aelf-rc-specting basis in the matter of wages
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 181, 30 January 1912, Page 8
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