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HANDSHAKING.

While pursuing life's journey, we notice a great difference in the manner in which greetings are exchanged, particularly in the matter of shaking hands. We have all met the pompous and highly superior person who unbends sufficiently to accord us two fingers with great condescension, and some.of us may have the clammy handshake. Shaking hands is an expression of character—when there is any character to express. There are men and women, too, whose handclasp is welcome, .and a benediction, because of the warmth and heartiness manifested by it. On the other hand, there are men., and women the touch of whose., hand strikes a chill to our hearts by reason of the coldness and utter want of cordiality it expresses. Perhaps worst of all in a man or a , woman—and frequently in that awful i monstrosity the precocious child—is the attempt to conform to an artificial and conventional form of handshaking, with a stiffness of tlie wrist and a lift of the elbow intended to show that there is neither naturalness nor east in the movement, but that "this is good form, you know." When that elbow goes up the estimate of the character of tho poor creature who practises it goes down very considerably in the mind of the noreon upon whom it is practised. Whei" ie c ' iarac^er "predominates, it finds exp.C"' I ' oll in a llWut - v shako.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 November 1913, Page 2

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HANDSHAKING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 November 1913, Page 2

HANDSHAKING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 November 1913, Page 2

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