WHY' DO WE SHAKE HANDS ?
Marly of oilr pleasant social customs can tie tracM back- to distant days, arid 'sihakiiig hands is said to date back to very darkI'dg6S. ftitnitive tribefe rbariiing the fdrests were always prepared to fight any Stranger who appßal'ed flri the seend, but1 if fhe's'trangei- wished to approach an'dther in a spirit Of friendliness, he vVcrald tlirow1 down his club as his dfo# neaiyandSistretch" outliis hai|d to show that it contained how^apbh. The mail approached would usually grasp'~thd odtstrefched haild to make quite Biire. of-its bwnef'S'kiMly1 iritehtioris, ancl; thus' the 'oiistbrn .'df shakiijg hands as A token of gded-fellowship is supftos'ed to havfe originated^ ,j
«*•* ' Mukiiiiiti* ! ''TREASORE." (driiilial.) ,
H ralrted last nlsht, , And when the petple wok* they said, "No joy 111 letting up toddy, We'd r»iftef May in ted." they did net a«e—o faslish folk I— The beauty, that I found, they did not see the sparkling drops ■ That silvered all the ground. And when at last the suit cime out The foolish folk saw not Ten million diamond treasures that glistened, illVer shot. "POLLYANNA." Kelburn. , "
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 20
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181WHY' DO WE SHAKE HANDS ? Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 20
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