| Show handshaking HAND SHAKING SHARING IN WASHING TON par for the every city puts upon its people a 9 mark boston stamps the head chicago the feet washington baer energizes zes the hand we can understand a why expansion pushes upward in a a bostonian and pulls downward in a chicagoan Ghica goan but wiy in our poil political metropolis in a city of strangers this immoderate and familiar hand shak in ing g itis it is a stean tact fact that thai in washington wealth pedigree grep and brains all pay court to official position and from this arises the popular belief that members of con kress grest earning coming from their constituents where handshaking is automatic spread the couta Riou making the handshaking hand band shaking of washington a barren conventionality an idea tha to be resented as handshaking hand band shaking certainly is a very great factor in manipulating tuis athe greatest government tile the world ever saw you will readily admit that geo graphy VIUS inheritance n h et I 1 t ance makes the man that all mea men are full of prejudices that some men have rigid opinions that a man mail in perfect agreement with a fellow being bein would be a rare finding men hell at ai ton the eheart bean of this titian democracy where comes pouring in the multitude f from rom every point of the the markings COM compact comp past asb each covered f from boiu his own ioe locality gAty holding his hi own peculiar opinions until it becomes dangerous daford us to open your teft mouths except upon the broadest generalities I 1 such auch as the we weather athert the health of fam alies ille sete etc how shall this divergent mass communicate when heads are dissimilar fortunately underneath all this confusion the beart of humanity beats identically and finds expression in ahe the hand band you who fancy that handshaking hand shaking g isla mere conventionality make a round ot ol calls upon a reception day and note the marks of expression begin with mr cleveland so early in ID this instance you will find that pu punctuality is the thief of time you will have none to waste in waiting get a good seat watch the anxious crowd as it gathers in the ibe room each frantic to shake the hand baud of president tor for one of two either of respect for a government whose president is one oneff of the common people 1 I 1 or that they may talk ado about it it as a rich legael legacy unto their issue etc As the door opens to admit the president and his hie wife set see how awe struck is the bUZZi buzzing Dg whispering multitude it rises and seems for all the world like a funeral procession keeping time to I 1 the dead DeadMa mat ch ili saul mr cleveland looks bored and were it bot far an expression that seems to say I 1 1 escorn I r scorn to serve the president way so much to the and so 60 little to me we might fancy as we look at the pump handle LIC action t 1011 that there 14 was as 1100 in ILL it except mechanical energy if the motion wearies him why not let a lackey put his arms through the executive sleeves and shake for him mrs cleveland looks bright and pretty and gives each hand a dainty aque squeeze eze which seems to say it ft is nice to be the firby lady in the land and I 1 love to have you come and see mf me pass now to an other select an ultra one if your card anno announces ances elal u mr the shaking of your hano hand will remind you yon of being alone in the prairie and meeting a western bezzard if you keep from making an apology lor for ever being born and get a warm place you will enjoy it ever so much the handshaking of government officials will naturally lall all lato tribes and genera there is the shake all on oue one side he always shakes with you you never aitu him bit bis grip is suavity he hided any annoyance in smiles and alb fabi facility lity mr allison would shake bake hands more warmly with the humblest man ot of the masses than with wilh the ahe czar of all the dussias Rus sias and send that shake like a smal Horce through a long longdin als tance well with pulleys there is among the masses a sneaking fondness for notice from men in position the reporter who says io something bom methin ething nice about a senator receives what ahac pleases more aba 0 money a baud clasp that makes him feel fe elgood good the amouak of power in the energized hand is incalculable and it is without doubt one of the levers that rests the government into position CARY HARRISON |
