HAND-SHAKING.
OLD-TIME FORMS OF GREETING. The Fascist! have entered upon a campaign against hand shaking. It will be approved by many who do not approve of Fascism. The “Manchester Guardian” indicates that nothing is more distasteful to some people than “the odious habit of indiscrimminate hand shaking, morning and evening, in season and out of season.” The craze for shaking hands is, a' departure from older custom. The kiss was a sixteenth-century form of salutation, and in the following century,
we have Pepys well pleased at being | kissed by Sir George Cartaret and his I lady in token of equality. Later on j the mode was more formal, women ! dropped a “curtsey” and men made a "leg” or an elaborate gesture with the hat. The Great Duke would give I one finger, or even two fingers on oc- , casion, but his more usual salutation was the touching of his hat brim with a forefinger. One does not know whether the craze for hand shaking is to be regarded as one of the blessings of democracy—if so it would account (apart from questions of hygiene) for 1 the Fascist dampaign.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 246, 19 July 1928, Page 2
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189HAND-SHAKING. Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 246, 19 July 1928, Page 2
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