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Show : VVi!hinS of Hands Before . Eating an Old Ceremony VI,':'''''rn of washir.? the hands .'jV.a!:.r? Ja'-s a' 'ar back as -'' 'i''""-? rjl formal dinner-giv- -,Z p'e.ear'7 Egyptians, Greeks : made a ceremony of ,-j',',"'?. tr hands in water from '- '2 i." p:!ch before each meal, ;';r 3 r'''er in the Washington -J ''! "r 'J'rnar'3 introduced the cus--fY '. ,.MinZ 'ra ?rant flowers in ! lv'-",n the water vould be :':'t- - ic'' 'pp01ntd servant had as '"'ull anoir'ting of the guest's 'r, h lh" W3'hing of his hands. -'. arriva' in the house. The v;-s"Jre wa'hd ain before " . c't table, and sometimes ' t.r."L!m.'"!Jr 'a repeated several t-'-H Jr'r'g the Prgre3 of a long f i.AA m'"i'i- of the Fifteenth i." it''.'f ""g'-r-bowl, as we know . tr';' "f-t appeared. The use r.i--',". Wst':r l',T war:hing the ' " ' z .V t;,b'e became general '"'y -A -J"'1'1'7 and 'ad-seeklng Eut unlike many faddish -.". of the finger-bowl be- i l lv '-T'table to us as to the 4y ''' R"s thought of it. |