Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-04-27
Catalogue of the Various Modes Of
Shaking Hands.

!. The pump.huntiie shake isthe first which
deserves notice. 1t is executed by taking
your friends hand, and working it up and
down, through an area of fifty degrees, for
about minute aud half. To have its ma.
ture, force, and character, this shake should
be performed NTH fair steady motion. No
attempt should he made, to give it grace and
still less vivacity, as the few instances III
which the latter has been tried have uniform
ly resulted in dislucatiug the shoulder OF the
person Oh whom it has been attempted. On
the contrary, persons who are partial to the
puulp-hunMe shake, should be at some pains
to give All e1unble, Tranquil movement, TO the
operatiya, which should on no account be
continued alter perspiration on the part oil
your friend has commenced.
2. The pendulum shake may be mentioned
next, as being somewhat similar i'll character;
but moving, rs the name indicates, in hori-
zontal, insle Of perpendicular direction. 1t
is executed BY sweeping your llands horizon
tally towards your friends, and after the june
ton is effected, rowing with it, from one side
to the other, according to the pleasure OF the
parties. The only cuution in its use, which
needs particularly to be given, is not to insist
on performing it in place, strictly parallel
t. the horizon, when you meet with person
who has been educated to the pu,np.handte
shake. l. ia we'll known that people cling to
the forn.s in which they huya heen educated,
even when the substance is sacrificed 10 nd
hyriny 10 them. hui two uarea, hn'! e!ii'
muhp ule,,, one pt WHOM hal bcru brought
up in the pumphandts sllake and another hHd
brought home the pendulum from foreign
voyage. They met joined hands, and at
tempted to put them in motion. They were
neither of them feeble men. One endea1ored
to pump and the other to paddle; their faces
reddened; the drops stood OH their ioreheads
And it was ut least pleasant illustration of
the doctrine of the composition OF forces, to
see their hands slanting into Oh exact disgo.
nal; in which line they ever after shook; but
it was plain to see there was no cordiality in
it and, as is usually the case with oompro.
misses, both parties were diseontented.
8. The tourniQuet shake is the next in I'M
portance. 1t derives its name from the in
ssrument made uso of by surgeons to stop the
circulation of the blood in u limb about to be
amputated. It's performed BY clasping the hand
of your friend as far as you can i'll your own,
and then contracting the muscles OF your thumb,
fugers, and palm, till ycu have induced any
decree of compression you may propose IN
the hand of your friend. Particular care
ought to be taken, if your own hand is as hard
and us big as d .tiyinypan, and that OF your
friend as small and soit as young maiden's,
not to make use Of the tourntquet shake to
tho degree that will force the small bones OF
the wrist out of the place. 1t is as seldom
safe to apply it to gouty persons. A hearty
young friend of nine, who had pursued the
study of geology and acquired on unusual
hardness and strength Of hand and wrist by
the use of the hummer, on returning from
scientific excursion, gave his gouty uncle the
"lourniquet" shake with such severity, as had
we'll nigh reduced the old gentlemans fingers
to powder; ftr which my friend had The pleas,
ure of being disnherited-as soon as his un.
cle's fingers got we'll enough to hold pen.
4. The cordial grappLe is shake Of some
interest. 1t is hearty, boisterous agitation
of your friends hand, accompanied with mod
esste pressi,se and ioaa cheerful exeaasassions