SHAKING HANDS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 33, 16 August 1890, Page 19

SHAKING HANDS.

We shake hands all day in Amsterdam. It is no uncommon thing for two men to shake hands three times in one day. Such an expression as ‘ Good-bye,’ ‘ I’ll see you again in an hour or so ’ —‘ Goeden dag, ik zal u over een nurtje weer zien ’ —is invariably accompanied by a grasping of the hands. Children shake hands with their parents on returning home from their day-school for lunch and for dinner, and again on going to bed'. And I have a correspondent in the Dutch metropolis who makes a point of shaking hands with me by post. ‘ Believe me, yours, with a good shake hands,’ lie concludes his letter.