The evening world., 1890-01-02
HOW They SHAKE HANDS.
The Way In Which Well Known PEG.
PIE Greet Their Friends
President Hnrrlson's Grip Seems to
Ask a Question.

Lavater has told us how TO read charac.
ter in the features and Spurzheim has
given us the language Of II bumps. but
II there is not rs much character in the
way people shake hands. then both of
these philosophers are dead failures, says
a writer IN the Richmond Times.
A close observer, and one who writes
whereof he knows, has taken the pains to
record the Characteristic of some of the
best known people in this respect, and
thus presents his experience.
President Harrison gives one nm inter.
rogatory sort of grip hat seems TO imply
the idea, - eau | trust YOU ?"
When JaIne'G. Blaine takes your hnnd,
u always impresses vou with the notion
that he IL glad to see you, whether ho IL
or not.
William NJ. Eyarts gives you only his
fingers, aud seems to begrudro the time
spent. IN the operation. automatically
ho will sometimes spRre his whole hand.
Ex-Prcsidont Cleveland has n chubby
band, which he puts into yours in n hur-
ried manner that seems TO say, I'm n
busy man pass on
Roy, 4. Dewitt 1almagc has a hand
broad aud hearty, and when the Brooklyn
dom nie wishes to emphaHize a point IL
comes down like aspile-driver
Cyrus w. Field has q long. wiry hand,
betOkening caution aud nstuteness, and
even u part Of It's palm.
Edwin booth has n hand which a
onn might envy. Its grasp In gentle,
aud the essence Of p%oliteness itself.
Henry Irving gives one n =" Mr.. Merdle's
shake" and then his hand seems to re-
troat up his coat sleeve as II II was
ashamed OF itself.
Oscar Wilde has n ghostly, clammy
hand, such as might have belonged to
uriah Heep. The touch makes one feel
like rubbing his Owl hand afterwards to
restore lost warmth.
Billy Florenco's d gifts twined within
those of u friend plainly say Now,
none OF that. Come, I've got YOU. you
know, and you 60 quietly along with me
to the Hoffman House"
Abram Hewitt now aud then shakes
hands as II he were delivering an opinion
that grated on his own hinges.
When inspector Byrnes joins palms
with some strangers he looks aud acts M
II they were catalogued in q collection Of
r%nritiss. II not the rogues' gallery. To
his friends his clasp Ia cordial and en-
phatic,
The late Thurlow Weed had q sinewy
hand, though soft and when you took il You
felt what a good and trusty companion II
was to his honest brow and gray hair.
Horace Greeley was not n great hand
shaker. but when he did indulge in the
salutation his hand could be either n
sledge hammer or scalpel.
Sunset Cox. What should he have but
q genial shake that carried u II the smile
Of his nature?
Poor Maurice Strakosch used to play a
sort Of rock-a. BY .baby motion with the
hand given him to shake. He would first
press 1t 10 his heart, kiss II and then re-
turn II with thanks.
p. \. Gilmore, the famous maestro,
also has a foreign way Of fondling the
fingers laid in his, seeming loath to re-
one objects to this in the genial =" Pat"
Thomas A. Edison, the wizard in
venior. has n jerky style which a y as
plainly rs words, Just so much Of my
time wasted"
II Jack Bunsby were In the flesh,
" Uncle" Rufus Hatch, Of Wall street,
could give him points In heartiness of
grip and go him one better"
Chief Justice Fuller IL known to he q
l~arge-hearted.. poetical gentleman. but
he oscillates bis digitnl extrsmities with
a. much gravity when . before folks " as
II he were delivering n judicial opinion.
Socially. there Is no discount on their
warmth.
When Chnuncey Depew takes vigorous
hold of an old friend. which he Is apt to
do the friend aforesaid usually feels like
putting his hand IN hospital.
Vice-P resident Morton's hands arc like
velvet. When he and Chauncey indulge
in q palnlar embrace there is a Damon
and Pythias style about the operation
that il touching to the bystanders.
The characteristic of Jay Gould's grasp