Show Origin of Hand Shaking Shaking hands is a relio relic of barbar barbar- It bedtime became tho custom Inthe in inthe the days when every everyone one carried a dagger I in his belt and when one friend meeting another thought it necessary to attest the peacefulness of his intentions by extending extend an open open open op op- op- op en palm Then other man could than thaU m kp a similarly reassuring reassuring re- re tic do no IPPS P Js assuring demonstration and the grasp of these two extended hands naturally natural natural- ly y followed Subsequently by a log logical pal ical process of evolution the handshake hand hand- shake grew to be bo the tho conventional form torm of greeting and the tho refusal of ot a proffered cd hand was regarded as one of those Insults w hose dishonor can only be bo wiped out with blood Now the tho custom is too firmly and widely established for its abandonment to be conceivable and yet there are various various vari van ous things thing about it which render it unsatisfactory |