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SUCH IS LIFE—Suspicious
By Charles Sughroe
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Many Substitutes
for Shaking Hands
People Express Friendliness
in Various Ways.
Washington.—A shakeless hand
shake is advocated in El Salvador.
Minus the shake and with the hand
clasp also ruled out, the resultant
gesture would lift the hand in a
neat and speedy hygienic salute. Va
rious substitutes for shaking hands
are already in use by a sizable por
tion of the earth’s population.
“The handshake is by no means
universal,” says the National Geo
graphic society. “Inhabitants of
bleak Tierra del Fuego welcome the
rare strangers who come there with
a bear-hug and a back-patting,
meanwhile jumping up and down.
An African west coast negro, on
greeting a friend, may fling himself
to his knees and kiss the ground
three times. Frenchmen kiss each
other on both cheeks. Israelites of
old bowed themselves to the ground
eeven times.
Honorable Custom
“Yet handshaking in many forms
Is an old and honorable custom. To
join hands in antiquity was equi
valent to signing a peace treaty,
with the advantage that it left no
scraps of paper to be tom up Early
Greeks respected the right hand of
fellowship, now preserved in many
religious and fraternal organua-
lions A handclasp is introduced in
to the marriage ceremony among
the Hindus and sometimes among
PRINCE OANA
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They call him “Prince Oana** of
Hawaii, but it is merely a nick
name although he is a native of
Hawaii He is the first of his na
tive land to crash the big leagues.
He played with Portland in the
roast league last year and was giv
en a trial with the Philadelphia
Nationals this year.
Christians. Always, however, it
precedes a prize fight. A Chinese,
to show how pleased v he is to en
counter you, shakes his own hands.
In the Banks islands of the Pacific,
a man hooks the middle finger of his
right hand with yours and pulls it
away with a crack. The strange
white Ainu people of Japan make
you welcome by rubbing their own
palms together and stroking their
beards.
“The military salute is said to
have originated like the handshake
as a formal declaration of one’s
innocence of any hostile intention.
“Baring the head is another
means of acknowledging that one
is friendly and among friends.
Medieval armored knights lowered
their visors to leave their faces un
protected while with their col
leagues, and entirely removed all
hardware from their heads when
in friendly company. Several cen
turies later, young gallants elevated
‘uncovering’ to the status of a flour
ishing sport, when doffing their or
nate hats with the accompaniment
of plume waving, ribbon fluttering,
and bowing from the waist.
“Such uncovering out of respect,
originally disarming before friends
and superiors, led Tahitans to strip
themselves to the waist in the pres
ence of their king. The same im
pulse which prompts an Occidental
to remove hts hat leads Orientals to
remove their shoes, and off come
sandals or slippers upon entering
homes and public buildings.
The Kiss Ameag Womea
“It is among men that the ma-
)ority of set greetings have been
prescribed, since centuries of con
finement to the home delayed wom
en m cultivating a distinctive bust-
neaalihe salutation for one another.
Their usual greeting, especially m
more effusive generations, has been
the bias
“Variations for better and for
worse accompany the kissing cus
tom around the world Moors kiss
each other on the shoulder Chil
dren near Quebec, m greeting the
parish priest, have been seen to
crook forefinger across thumb and
make a tiny cross to kiss The
Tonga islander submits himself to
his chief by touching the sole of
bis foot
The friendly nod is an abbrevi
ated and hasty version of one of
the oldest and most universal forma
of acknowledgment—bowing Prim
itive peoples still crouch to show
respect, or kneel and strike their
foreheads on the earth. Mossi na
tives accompany a handclasp with
a ceremony of flopping on the
ground and beating their forearms
thrice against the earth. The Egyp
tian ceremony of breathing on the
ground was a form of obeisance.
Arabians would touch the ground
with a Anger, then put it to lips or
foreheads, thus performing an
obeisance symbolically.”
LETTING LOOSE
AN OPINION
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
4 Ltjdta Le Baron Walker
The fool in one of Shakespeare’s
dramas is amusingly persistent in
“letting loose his
opinions.” Not
all of us are
fools or clowns
but the majority
of us, like this
clown., have
ideas to loose
which we consid
er priceless pos
sessions of which
the world has
great need. The
fool, like most of
the fools in liter
ature, teaches us
a valuable les
son. He had the good sense to
keep still after he had stated his
opinion. Many of us need to heed
that advice.
It is our responsibility to state
clearly and definitely our convic
tions on any and every matter in
controversy. It is not only our right
but our duty to express our convic
tions. Whether we are right or
wrong is not the question. If we
are convinced we are right, we
should, like men brave and true,
speak out—“let loose our opinions.”
Any action less positive would be
untrue to our conscience. The dif-
STARCHED CHIFFON
tj^VERY guest room should have
^ some reading matter in it. In
order to have this suit the various
preferences of the different person
alities who may occupy the room,
the assortment must be diverse.
Current magazines, or even those
of dates not so recent are a great
help, as in them many topics are
discussed. But magazines vary in
contents, some
stressing one
subject, some an
other.
A woman
might be glad to
see a woman’s
magazine, but it
would bore a
man. A travel
er would revel in
one of the mag
azines devoted
t o journeyings
and geographical
subjects. Fortu
nately such
reading matter
appeals to wom
en as well as
men. Then there
are periodicals
in which fiction
is given chief
place, and
whether a per
son is man or
woman, serious
minded or flip-
I pant, atones are read by them.
A guest room well-furnished with
reading often has an assortment
covering a wide range of tastes,
i from books on cooking to volumes
' on profound subjects. A book of po-
* etry will be found well read. A
Bible, or selected readings from it.
should not be omitted from the
shelves or the table Also there
should be one book of humorous
• tales or essays.
Quilt of Applique Is
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Pattern 1191
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SCIENTIFACTS — BY ARNOLD
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Flying
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Aviators lose weight
THE FURTHER THEY GET AWAY
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TATIONAL PULL. At THE PRESENT
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Water melts metals -
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OXYGEN PRODUCES WATER.
In the hydrogen-oxygen
TORCH THE STEAM PRODUCED
MELTS METALS EASILY FOR
WELDING
Beet root and pinkish gray are
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decolletage of the dress, made with
a double flange of the gray fabric,
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Acuity arises when our enthusiasm
impels us to thrust our opinion
upon others. Such assumption in
dicates that we alone are right
and all those who do not agree with
us are wrong. Wc hear much
about the rights of the minority.
The most important right the
minority has is the right to be
heard. No one can dispute that.
The individual or minority group
has no right to assume that the
primal responsibility is to compel
others to surrender their convic
tions and follow a leadership which
may be blind even if enthusiastic.
After letting loose his opinion,
the fool kept still. Witse fool! Why
not let an opinion vindicate itself?
It surely will, if it be the truth.
Invariably, the truth expressed in
any controversial matter wins out.
Truth cannot fail. A man may
speak so loudly that you cannc 1
hear him. Noise and bombastic
utterance may drown “the still
small voice” which speaks ir clear
accents of truth- The constructive
value of marty'jfn issue is lost sight
of in the fury of aspects similar to
the “mind of the crowd’’ in the psy
chology of the action of the crowd.
A well known actor mounted the
stage before *the show began, and
told his audience, in a convincing
way, of his recent conversion to
Christianity. This act seemed un
necessary, since the assembled
crowd had not come to the theater
to hear a declaration of their fa
vorite actor's conversion. It must
have taken the actor s “nerve” to
thus take his audience into con-
Summer Reading
During the summer be sure to
have light reading included A
• good detective story, or several, a
few novels so that a person can
have a choice, and a volume of
short stories make a room have a
j summertime literary appeal that
guests will be sure to like.
When the hostess' library la
somewhat limited, or when the
, guest room cannot have its own
book shelves of sufficient sue to
hold all the kinds of books, guests
should be invited to make their
own selections of books in the liv
ing room and take them to their
rooms. They may hesitate to do
this unless special invitation to do
so is given.
Every guest room can have a
Lible. a magazine or two, and two
fldence unasked But the actor had
a story to tell—something of per
sonal vital reality to declare. When
I he had spoken, he left the stage;
I and the admiring and enthusiastic
audience caught the spirit of his
conviction, literally shared his new
ly discovered joy, and recalled him
many times to the stage in an ex
pression of harmonious action. It
was not necessary for the actor to
resort to methods of persuasion to
i appeal to the reality of his words.
Reality is triumphant truth. Say
your speech; let loose your opinion,
but never lose respect for the opin
ions of another.
© lV*-»tern Xewnpaper Union.
or three books, one on travel, a
book of poetry and a novel.
The Spoken Word
Words are like boomerangs.
They come back on the speaker,
as well as giving opinions of other
persons. The words betray the
type of person who says them even
more clearly than they indicate the
nature of the person conversed
about. The latter may be mis
judged, or flattered over-much.
What is said about that person ex
presses the speaker’s opinion. It
may be wrong. What is revealed
accurately is the attitude and mind
of the person talking. This is an
unconscious revelation of real per
sonality.
It is well to consider this when
we are inclined to indulge in a bit
of ungracious gossip. Of course
what is said of another is not repre-'
sentative of the traits of the speak
er, as individual characteristics. It
is, however, a revelation of an un
kindly critical attitude in the
speaker, when she dweUs on the
faults of the other. We get an un
canny feeling that we would not
like to have the speaker talk about
us! We have a distinct impres
sion that the would find unpleasant
things to say about us. And this
may be true even when we con
cur in our unspoken judgment of
the person under discussion. It is
one thing to note unlovely traits
in another, and keep silence about
them while w*~ endeavor to And
good points to speak of, and quite
another to be outspoken in our ad
verse criticisms.
Kindly Comments
It Is when we listen to a kindly
bit of gossip about another person,
that we discover the beauty of
character of the speaker. If the
person talked about has impressed
us adversely, we are glad when we
have another side brought to light.
Every person has at least two sides
to her nature. We may have been
unfortunate in seeing the disagree
able side The speaker shows us
the other. But over and above this
pleasant discovery, is the delight
ful revelation we have of the kind
heait of the speaker We warm to
it. and our reactions are happy.
The spoken or written words of
everyone are self revealing. We
get the discredit or the benefit of
the return of the impression cre
ated
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such a simple one it is too, in
easy applique, with each bird all
in one patch. You may make
the birds uniform in color, or
vary them by using up colorful
scraps. Thus using but three maf
terials.
Pattern 1191 comes to you with
complete, simple instructions for
cutting, sewing and finishing, to
gether with yardage chart dia
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blocks for single and double bed
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which serves as a guide for plac
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trasting materials.
Send 15 cents in stamps or
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Through Panama Canal
If a ship passes through the
! Panama canal without delay it
! will take from ten to twelve
hours. Of this time three hours
are taken up lifting and lowering
the ship through the locks. The
locks are 110 feet wide and 1,000
I feet long. The airplane carrier
; Saratoga can get through the ca-
: nal, but with considerable diffi
culty, as it has only two feet
clearance on either side, being
106 feet wide —Detroit News.
5* AND 10^ JARS
THt NX SUE CONTAINS 3^TIMES AS MUCH
AS the s« SIZE - !¥HY ASY MQf*C ?
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A Cheerful Fare
A cheerful face is nearly aa
good for an invalid as healthy
weather.—Franklin.
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Cut Coat of Brides
to Spur Weddings
Jerusalem —Believed to be
the result of eloquent speeches
in the mosques, in which the
orators called up Nablus fathers
to reduce the marriage prices
of their daughters, no less than
100 local marriages have been
celebrated in Nablus dwfing the
last two months.
The high dowry which the
fathers of Nablus were demand
ing for the hands of their daugh
ters in marriage had driven an
increasingly large number of
young men to seek brides in
Cyprus, where the demands are
much more modest. The price
of a wife in Palestine is between
$500 and $2,500. A good wife in
Cyprus costs between $25 and
$250.
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DASM IN
ON SPREAD ON ROOSTS
Laacfy Road
Even having your own way ian’t
the road to happiness.
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Old Point Comfort Beach, Va., where coon hunting has become a seri
ous novelty in the tourist curriculum. Miss May Lindsay is shown yp
a tree ready to snare Mr. Raccoon with a net. It’s a miniature Bring
cm Back Alive sport here.
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