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Show The Kissing of Hands. (Chicago News.) They have set about resurrecting the practice of kissing hands in Paris. It is no longer good form for a Parisian to shake a lady's hand. Instead, if one may believe the Paris newspapers, he is practicing prac-ticing a complicated ritual of kisses, suited to all degrees of friendship. The 6pot kissed marks the point of favor he has reached. If a mere acquaintance, only just beyond the bowing stage, he is confined to the tips of the first and second sec-ond fingers. As the friendship ripens the kiss gradually steals past the knuckles and along the back of the hand. The ! palm, too. may be ventured, though at i some risk, one would imagine, of tickling Its owner. But complete felicity is only reached when the man may firmly grasp the lady's hand and busy himself with the brist. The wrist appears to be the kissing terminus. |