The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-23
sHAxIMo HANDS.
Eugene fiela, tn Exshangc.l


 Eugene Fieil. tn Exshangc.l
 The pump-handle shake is the 6rst which deserves notice. It is executed by taking friends hand and working it up and down through an arc of 6fty degrees for about minute and haM. To have it's nature, force and character this shake should be formed with fair and steady motion. No attempt should be made to give 1t grace, and still less variety, as the few instances in which the latter has been tried have uniformly resulted in dislo- eating the shoulder of the person on whom it has been attempted On the contrary, persons who are partial to the pump-handle shake should be at seme pains .c give an equable. tranouil move ment to the operation, which should on no account De continued after perspir- ation on the part of your friend has com menced.
 The pendulum shake may be mention ed next, as being somewhat similar in character, but moving, as the name in- dicates, in horizontal instead of a per- pendicular direction. It is executed by sweeping your hands horizontally towards your friends, and after the junction is affected, rowing with it from one side to the other according to the pleasure of the parties. The only caution in its use which needs particularly to be given is not to insist on performing it in place strictly parallel to the hoEixen. You may observe . person who had been educated to the pump-handle shake, and another that had brought home the pendulum from foreign voyage. They met, joined hands, and attempted to put them in motion. They were neither of them feeble men. One endeavored to pump, and the other to paddle; their faces red dened, the drops stood upon their fore heads, and it was at last a pleasant illus tration of the doctrine of the compost ton of forces to see their heads slanting into an exact diagonal, 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 such compromises, both parties were discontented.
 The tourniquet shake is the next in importance. It derives its name from the instrument made use of by surgeons to stop the circulation of the blood in the limbs about to be amputated. It is performed by clasping the hand of your friend as far as you can in your own, and then contracting the muscles of your thumb, fingers and palm till you have in- duced any degree of compression you may propose in the hand of your friend. Particular care ought to be taken, if your hand is as hard and as big as frying pan, and that ofyour friend as small and soft as a maiden's, not to make use of the tourniquet shake to a degree that will shake the small bones of the wrist out of their place. It is seldom safe to apply it to gouty persons. A hearty young friend of mine, who had pursued the study of geology, and acquired an unusual hardness and strength of hand and wrist by the use of the hammer, on returning from a scientific excursion, gave his uncle (the gouty one) the tour niquet shake with such severity as had well-nigh reduced the old gentleman's fingers to powder, for which my friend had the pleasure of being disinherised as soon as his uncle's fingers got we'll enough to hold pen.
 interest. It is hearty, boisterous shake of your friends hand, accompanied with moderate pressure and loud acclamations of welcome. It is an excellent travelling shake, and well adapted to make friends it is indiscriminasely performed.
 The Peter Grevious is opposed to the cordial grapple. It is a pensive, tranquil junction, followed by mild subsultory motion, a cast-down look, and an in- articulate inquiry after your friends health.
 The prude major and prude minor are nearly monopolized by ladies. They cannot be accurately described, but are constantly to be noticed in practice. They never extend beyond the fingers :; and the prude major allows you to touch them down the second joint. The prude minor allows you the whole of the finger. Considerable skill may be shown.in per- forming them with nice variations, such as extending the left hand instead of the right, or stretching a new glossy lid glove over the fingers you extend.
 l might % through long list of the gripe royal, the sawmill shake, and the shake with malice prepense, but they are only fictitious combinations of the three fundamental forms already described, as the pump-handle, the pendulum, and the tourniquet. should trouble you with a few remarks in conclusion on the mode of shaking hands as an indication of character, but as see friend coming up the avenue who is addicted to the pump-handle dare not tire my wrist by further writing.
 
 Mary Anderson's Agent.