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Rh A. Usually they receive a small tip for each special service. When one stays a long time in one hotel and has regular service from the same employee, a weekly tip may cover the whole service.

Q. Should barbers be tipped?

A. It is a growing custom in many of the best shops. Many men refuse to do it, and oppose any growth of the tipping habit, but continuous tipping by the well-to-do or careless is spreading the habit everywhere.

Q. Should door men be tipped?

A. Not unless they perform some extra and special service.

Q. Should attendants in check rooms be tipped?

A. It is a custom to which many people of courage refuse to conform.

Q. Is it necessary to observe any particular code of manners when living in an apartment house?

A. When living in such close quarters with many other people it is necessary to have consideration for one’s neighbors. Community interest requires general order and comfort. Unnecessary noise at night should be avoided. Loud talking or laughing will likely be annoying to some neighbor at any hour, and is inexcusable after bedtime. There should be no talking in the halls after the tenants have retired. Only thoughtless housekeepers will start washing dishes after bedtime.

Q. Is it necessary to be announced when calling upon a friend who lives in an apartment?

A. Always be announced. The tenant may be in the bath, or engaged in some way. Another excellent reason why all well-managed houses insist upon this rule is the protection from annoyance or danger that it affords the tenant.

Q. Do all cities have a law against putting flower pots or food boxes upon the window sills of apartment houses?

A. All cities do not enforce this ordinance, but the practice is being generally discontinued on account of its being so dangerous.

Q. Should one tenant in an apartment house be announced when calling on another tenant?

A. The same formality should be observed as in the case of an outsider. The telephone operator should be asked to announce the visitor.

Q. Should people living in the same apartment house speak to one another in the elevators or lobbies if they have never been introduced?

A. Personal inclination or discretion must govern. It is courteous to speak to a tenant who is often met in lobby or elevator.

Q. Should a woman call on a new neighbor in the same building?

A. Such calls are seldom made unless the tenants have mutual friends, or have met elsewhere.

Q. May unmarried women living in an apartment receive gentlemen callers in their rooms?

A. Modern custom permits such calls if they are not extended to late hours.

Q. When a man escorts home from the theater a woman who lives in an apartment house, should he leave her in the lobby?

A. Whether in an apartment house or elsewhere, the hour is too late to pay a call.