Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1881-12-07
SHAKE"
How to Do It and How Not to
Do It-A Critical Disserta-
tion on Hand-Shaking.

ton on Hand-Shaking.
Let the reader remember that
there is right and wrong way OF
hand-shaking. 1t is horrible when
your unofiending digits are seized in
the sharp compress Of q kind of wise
and wrung and squeezed until you
feel as if they were reduced to a jel-
ly. Shake hands as if you meant
it, swiftly, strenuously and courte-
ously, neither using an undue press
ure nor falling wholly supine. You
may judge OF the character Of n
man iron4 the way in which he
shakes hands; there is the shake
lymphatic. the shake aggressive. the
shake sympathetic and the shake
emotional. Charles Lamb describes
also the pump.handle shake which
is executed by taking a friends
hand and working it up and down
through an arc Of fifty degrees for
aOout minute and halt. ITO
show its nature, force and character
ssaB sRake should vbe performed
with firm and steady motion. No
attempt should be made 10 give it
grace and still less variety, rs the
few instances in which the latter
has been tried have uniformly re-
suited in dislocating the shoulder of
the person on whom it has been at-
tempted. On the contrary, persons
who are partial to the pump-handle
shake should be at some pains to
give an agreeable, tranquil move
ment to the operation, which OH no
account should be continued after
perspinltion on the part Of your
friend has commenced" Then
there is the pendulum shake, which
same resembles the former, but, as
the name implies, the movement is
on horizontal instead of perpen-
dicular direction. "It is executed
by sweeping your hand horizontally
toward your friends and after the
junction is effected moving with it
from one side to the other, accord
ing to the pleasure Of the parties" !"
Nor must the tourniquet shake be
forgotten, which derives it's name
from the instrument employed by
surgeons 10 stop the circulation OF
the blood in limb about to be am
putated. You grasp the hand Of
your friend as far as you can in
your own and contract the muscles
Of your thumb. fingers aud palm till
you have inducen any degree Of
compression you may propose in
the hand OF your friend. Particu-
lar care ought 70 be taken, If your
hand be hard and big and that oi
your friend small aud soft as q
maiden's, not to make use Of the
tourniquet shake to such degree
that it will crush the small bones oi
the wrist out Of their places. II il
seldom safe TO apply it to hot-tein.
pered person. You will see some
persons thrust forth their hand
with sudden Jerk like that Of q
steam engine suddenly set in mo,
tion, and lol they have taken posses
sion Of your own and are doing
with il - they will before you have
recovered breath. Others put for
ward their-finges with IN apparen,
timidity or reluctance and co,npe
you 70 l,ounce upon them and draw
them toward you IN order to per
form N effective shake. Others
agnin, extend thsir hand timidly
partly withdraw II and again o.
tend i, until you ~ uncertair
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