Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1910 — Anti-Handshaking Society. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Handshaking Society.

In Paris they have been seriously discussing the advisability of forming an anti-handshaking society. Its members, so it is suggested, should oiily be pledged to avoid this form of salutation during the summer months. But when once it is started it is believed, and sincerely hoped, that the practice of grasping all and sundry by the hand will be permanently discouraged. There is a good deal to be said on both sides. __ To have a hot and moist hand clasp one’s own on a day when one is already suffering all that seems possible from the teat is distinctly trying, to say the least. Furthermore, there are many people whose handshake leaves one with a feeling of having touched a fish or something creepy-crawly. One looks forward to their clasp, if it can so be described, with a positive sense of horror, and it is almost with difficulty thpt one refrains from coveitly wiping the hand after the operation.—London Lady’s Pictorial.