The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-08-15
euAKE OWN HAND;
PRESENT CUSTOM BAD
ARTIFICIAL ARM, HIRE A
Gt STIR OR WEAR RUBBER
HnST90VEs, DOCTORS SAY.

Hand shaking must go!
n Lian medical authorities predict
f0; few years the ancient custom
'i'' .Lating hands will have gone the
o. sue o. the roller towel, the family
way, Lrrsh and the insanitary drink
too'l % If is generally conceded by
ing Cup phvsicians that hand shak-
pr is not only a carrier OF disease
ng but is extremely harmful to
g'l" neryors system, says Isabel Fat
the men w. IN the Pittsburg Dispatch.
ter 51 s R. Haythorn, until recently
,GL;rt,an of the sanitation committee
cLa am "AIIephany County Medical So
o. + ,'' when questioned on the subject
sa nnnrinp the influenza epidemic bull
p"' were got out by the United
t t,l49 nubic health service warning
oIa, olo against shaking hands. | think
P Ee. hand shaking is very bad during
ll@' oodpmic. Although | do not think
an 'p yery serious menace ordinarily, it
i %orohahIv bad practice. No per
~. ~ r with tuberculosis ought to shake
i lands He should make some excuse
%; ,a'I not shaking hands.
W Dr c. 7. Vaux, director OF the de-
, p of public health, told the in
pa .rr Ge, that while there is theo-
. .s.;osr possibility of disease being car
l; Ssi'+ through shaking hands, that prac-
tcslly. he thinks, it does not occur
'I y think public speakers very often
art;fcia1 arms. that they stick
oT for the people to paw over" DIR.
Tany said. The Humane Society
or "J TO put a stop to hand shaking"
General indiscriminate hand shaking
NOS condemned by Miss Nan L. Dor
srv superintendent OF the Public
Hath Nursing Association, who stat
aWbile there are a great many fac
,or, 10 be considered and l think in
. C,r instances. such as the home,
hand shaking is all right, indiscrimi-
nate hand shaking is very bad. / have
bpen told that President Harding and
tbe late Theodore Roosevelt had to
have masseurs to manipulate their
hands, and there was almost evidence
q; PARALYSIS after they had shaken
hand, constantly. President Harding,
f is said shakes hands with about
two thousand people in day"
This One Against Kissing, Too.
Mrs, Enoch Rauh, director of the
deoartment of public health and for
merv president of the council of Jew
sb women, who has always been &C
tyelv interested in the welfare and
general health OF the public, has ex-
dressed her opinion as follows:
q think that hand shaking ought to
be eliminated in polite society, and
agree that it is a germ carrier. Many
germs Congregate on the hands and
I'VE can not be washing our hands con-
SANITY. think it is a good thing to
abolish hand shaking, just as think
H is TO do away with kissing. | have
been one OF the kissers, and love to
kiss. but | do not think it is sanitary.
have been told that hand shaking
Is OF very great harm to the nervous
system, and that certain public people
who have been called upon to shake
hands great deal have discontinued
it because of its prostrating effect on
the nerves. One can be just as cordial
without shaking hands"
Mrs Rauh advocates the manner OF
salute OF the orientals, that Of shaking
their own hands instead of each others,
as being much more sanitary. AS to
the possibility of hand shaking being
entirely abolished, she said that she
thought that human beings are capa-
bic Of everything, and that if an or
sanlzation started a movement against
shaking hands that everyone would
cooperate
Hands Garry Diseases.
Dr. C. J. Stybr, president of the
North Side branch of the Allegheny
Medical Society, said that he thought
ordinarily that hand shaking was not
very dangerous, but, in cases of highly
Infectious disease bacteria can accu-
m1.ate on the hands and when a slice
Of bread or other food is touched 1t
IS contaminated.
There is a possibility that doing
away with this ancient form may mean
mat there will be no more lengthy
feceWmg lines at receptions, and that
me delegate will no longer have to
run the gauntlet" until he is exhaust
ri .tyl SltA-ttC NluD piSoiuSllIo .NiiC
nave had to shake hands for hours at
stretch will rejoice at the news from
Fars that a society had been formed
abolish this torture
Just how the hand shake originated
doubtful. Even in Biblical times it
was an established custom. Each coun-
ny has its special manner of saluta-
lon the French preferring that OF
n.SSSng. Perhaps the orientals have the
Ilsnt idea, after all. There are many
varieties of hand shakes. Fraternities
Usually have their own specific kind.
linen there is the nuisance that almost
u ., ones hand in its mighty grasp,
ana the poor, limp, lifeless kind that
0I'eys 10 cordially of feeling.
AS an alternative. if people will in
s.' On the hand shake as an expression
vordlallty, the rubber glove might
az az Worn as a precaution against dis
ease germs.
bobbed hair is bringing its own &C