Shaking Hands
Dublin Core
Title
Shaking Hands
Subject
Feelings, Emotions
Creator
Unknown
Source
http://addison.vt.edu/record=b1775388~S1
Publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Date
March 1876
Contributor
Katie Garahan, Alexis Priestley
Format
Text
Language
English
Type
Editorial
Identifier
LD5655.V8 L4, ser.1, v.1, no.6 (Mar. 1876), p.6
Coverage
Blacksburg, VA
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Text
There is nothing which so forcibly impresses us with the nature of feelings with which certain persons are endowed, as shaking hands. In the fervent and friendly grasp, eagerness to do so, and reluctance to quit hold, we perceive without hesitation that the person thus greeting us is one who loves his neighbor, and consequently will prove a friend in every exigency.
Opposed to this, the careless proffer, the cold feelingless hand, with fingers extended and muscles unmoved, speaks to us louder than words, that in such a person we perceive a weak specimen of humanity, inhumane and self-conceited to a great extent, himself his only God.
To the latter there may be some exceptions, as in the case of children, and people who are extremely bashful. Ladies sometimes compromise with a finger, and are at times very reluctant to give us their hands at all, but they are pardonable, as they are modest creatures, we all know. Be it as it may, the shake of the hand foretells the feelings of the individual.
Opposed to this, the careless proffer, the cold feelingless hand, with fingers extended and muscles unmoved, speaks to us louder than words, that in such a person we perceive a weak specimen of humanity, inhumane and self-conceited to a great extent, himself his only God.
To the latter there may be some exceptions, as in the case of children, and people who are extremely bashful. Ladies sometimes compromise with a finger, and are at times very reluctant to give us their hands at all, but they are pardonable, as they are modest creatures, we all know. Be it as it may, the shake of the hand foretells the feelings of the individual.