Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
SHAKING HANDS.
Fright and WTOnG Ways nj Performing
Gn Important Social Function
rErorn In Glass of Eashinr

Fright and UTOnG EnyS nj Performing
Gn Important Social Function.
From the Glass of Fashion
Let the reader remember that there is
a right and wrong way of Misunderstanding.
1t is horrible when your unoffending
digits are seized in the sharp compress of
a kind Of wise, and wrung and squeezed
until you feel as if they were reduced to
Jelly 1t is not less horrible when you
find them lying in limp, nerveless clasp,
which makes no response to your hearty
greeting, but chills you like q lump of
ice Shake hands as if you meant it,
swiftly, strenuously and courteously,
neither using an undue pressure
nor falling wholly supine. You
may Judge of the character of a
man from the way in which he shakes
hands; there is the shake Emphatic, the
shake aggressive, the shake supercillious,
the shake imperative, the shrke suspi-
cious, the shake sympathetic, and the
shake emotional Charles Lamb describes
also the pump-handle shake, which is
executed by taking friends hand and
working it up and down, through an arc
of fifty degrees, for about a minute and
a half ''To show its nature, force and
character, this shake should be performed
with firm and steady motion. No at
tempt should be made to give it grace and
still less variety, as the few instances in
which the latter has been tried have uni
formly resulted in dislocating the Shout
der of the person on whom 1t has been
attempted. On the contrary, persons
who are partial to the pump handle shake
should be at some pains to give an
agreeable, tranquil movement to the
operation, which should ON no account
be continued after perSpiration on the
part of your friend has commenced"
Then there is the pendulum shake, which
somewhat resembles the former; but as
its name implies, the monument is on a
horizontal instead Of a perpendicular di-
rection. at 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
according to the pleasure of the parties. :"
Nor must the tOurniguet shake be for
gotten, which derives its name from the
instrument employed by surgeons to stop
the circulation of the blood
in a limb about to be
amputated. You grasp the hand of
your friend as far as you can in your
your thumb, fingers and palm till you
have induced any degree of compassion
you may propose in the hand of your
friend. Particular care ought to be
taken, if your hand be hard and big and
that of your friend small and soft as a
maiden's, not to make use of the tourni-
qnet shake to such degree that it will
crush the small bones of the wrist out of
their places 1t is seldom safe to apply
it to equity and hot tempered persons.
You will sees some persons thrust forth
their hand with sudden jerk, like that
of steam engine suddenly set in motion;
and 10, they have taken possession of your
own and are doing with it as they
will, before you have recovered breath.
Others put forward their fingers with an
apparent timidity or reluctance, and COM
pei you to pounce upon them and draw
them toward you, in order to perform an
effective shake. Others, again, extend
Their hand timidly, partly withdraw it and
again extend it, until you are
uncertain whether or no the act OF
hand-shaking will be performed after all
As for the cold-blooded creatures who
austerely offer one or two fingers, 1 rec
ommend you to ignore them; look loftily
over them as if unconscious of their ex-
istence and-their fingers. But when a
lady land more particularly a fair one)
does you the honor to offer her hand,
take it with an air of grateful Difference
which will show how you appreciate the
honor; do not drop it instantly as if the
touch scared you, nor hold it so long as
to cause her 8 feeling of uneasiness