WHY WE SHAKE HANDS
Time you ever wondered why we shake hands with people we meet? A long lime ago, when two men mob who didn’t know each other, they each grasped the weapon hand of the other as a precaution against treachery. If they held no weapon they knew they wore friends.
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Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 12
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53WHY WE SHAKE HANDS Evening Star, Issue 21319, 25 January 1933, Page 12
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