Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1913 — The Grasp of a Hand. [ARTICLE]

The Grasp of a Hand.

The clasp of two hands is literally a physical contact of two pieces of human flesh. Woefully secular and lifeless It can be! We all know the flabby, the clinging, the nervous, the icy hand-grasp. Yet who haß not sometimes rejoiced in the grasp of a hand that conveys life and love? Two souls are here united by a physical contact which gives birth to new aspirations and new certainties. Two human beings are here linked hand t<v hand in mutual respect, mutual encouragement.—Richard C. Cabot, In the Atlantic.