The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-25
ASHAEING HANDS.
Right ana Wrong Ways OF Perform
ing Rn Important social Function.
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AAihnt anu NNohS ways VI EtHihEAt-
ing Hn Important social Function.
Glass OF Fashion.
Ia. iha reader remember that there is a
right and wrong way of hsndShskiug. Is
is horrible when your unoiftnding digits are
seized in the sharp compress Of kind of
vice, and wruug ard squeezed until you feel
AS if they were reduced to jelly. It's not
less horrible when you and them lying in n
limp, ueryless clasp, Fhich makes no re-
sponse 70 your hearty greeting, hut chiIls
you like lump of ice. Shake
hands ss ii you mean 1t. Swiftly,
stfonuOusly, and courteously neither
using M undue pressure nor falling wholly
supne. You may judge of the character Of
man from the way ia which he shakes
hands there il the shake Emphatic, the
shake aggressive, the shake snpercilious, the
shake sympathetic and the shake emotional
Charles Lamb describes also the pump.
handle shake, which is executed by taking 9
friends hand and working it up and down
through an arc of afty de-
grees for about minute and Q
half. To show its nature, force and
character this shake should be performed
with firm and steady motion. No attempt
should DO made TO give il grace and still less
variety ~ the f'w instances in which the lat
ter has boon tried have uniformally resulted
in dislocatng of the shoulder of the person
on whom il has been attempted On the
contrary persons who are partial to The
pump handle shake should bo at some pains
TO give IA agreeable, tranquil movement
to the operation which should on no
account be continued after persplrstion on
tho part of your friend has commenced Then
there Is the pendulum shake, which some
what resembles the former; but, as its name
implies, tho movement is on horizontal
instead of a perpendicular direction, II is
executed by sweeping your hand horizontal
| " toward your friends and after the june
to the other according to the pressure OF the
parties Nor must the tourniquet shake be
forgotten, which derives its name from the
instrument employed by surgeons to stoI
the circulation of the blood in limb about
70 DO amputsted. You grasp the hand Of
your friend as far as you can in your owr
aud then contract the muscles of YOU
thumb, fingers and palm till you have in
duCed any degree Of compression you may
proposein the hand of your friend. Particular
csre ought TO DO taken if your hand 90 hare
aud big and that Of your friend small anC
soft rs maiden's, not to make use of thu
tourniQuet shake 10 such degree that i
will crush the small bones Of their wrist gu
of their places. 1t is seldom safe to apply i
to equity or hot tempered persons. Gol
will SEQ some persons thrust forth thei
hand with sudden jerk, like that Of a steam
engine suddenly Get in motion; and 10, the
have taken possession OF your own md Gr
doing with it rs thew will before you hay
recovered BREATH. Others put forward thoi
fingers with apparent limidity or reluctanc
and compel you 10 pounce upon them an
draw hem toward YOU, in order to perform
al effective shake. Others agsin extend th0l
hand timidly, partly withdraw il and agsi
extend ii until you arc u't,rCaIn ghetne
or no the act OF hsnd-susKlng will b
, performed after all. Az for the cold bloodet
creatures who austerely offer one or two TIA
gers recommend you to ignore them, loo
= loitily over them Rs If unconscious Of Lhei
existence and--their fingers. But when
lady land more particularly a fair one) doe
you tho honor TO offer you her hand, take
with an air OF grateful Difference which vii
show how you appreciate the honor, DO no
drop !! instantly as ii the touch scared 70
nor hold 1t SO long 40 to cause her teeliui
of unoasiless,