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HANDSHAKE DIAGNOSIS. HOW A MAN'S GLIP INDICATES CHARACTER.
A doctor has advanced the rather alarm. ing theory that many disen gengu aro transmitted by handshaking says Frank Waynthorp in the London Erasing News: However this may do, thoru sexilas no doubt that physicians can often diagnose illness. by a handshake.
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In support of this an experience of my owd may be cited. I recently con- sulted a Harley-strest doctor, who jointed out that the moment he took my hand he knew that i was run lows and in good of a rest. Certain poisonpar condi- tions of the blood, he afirmed, readily lend themselves to diagnosis in this way.
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man's character by "bis handshake. Dickens low this when he described Uriah Keep's handshake-a limp, elabmy taking of the hand, indicative of the calculating sarity of that detestable young man. A world of difference between his hun labake and the respectfully hearty grip of Peg- gotty, the Yarmouth dsberg!
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How do the celebrities of our day shake hands-the King, for example, and the Prince of Wales, who has shaken more bands than any other man of his generation, and other famous folk?
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Mr. Lloyd George's han clasp is vigorous and heavy. He has a gitt for making you feel that he has been wait ing yours to give you that bandshake, Mr. Churchill's is a more formal grip and i
cloquent of his personality Earl Beatty's disappoints you, or perhaps it were better silid that he lets you off more fightly than most sailors, for he grasp your hand gently but firmly and instantly let it go. The "heirtiest of hearty sailor bandshakes was the late Sir Enest Shack- leman's.
Earl Big shakes hands with t asons franess. He grips our band in real solierly fashion, with his thum lockod over your fingers. Another famous soklier, Sir William Robertson, is content with squeering your fingers, though none too geully.
A well-known American film producer rushes at you like a whirlwind, sizes vir hand, and pumps it vigorously," while ripping it as a "vice, a demonstration of amiability that I, for one, do not wish to experience a second time.
Perhaps it was after undergoing a ordeal of this kind dat Ouida, the note-- ist, denied to eschew handshaking, ex- cusing herself on the ground that when- ever a hand is clasped by another f feel vigine go out of me inanesliately."
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A Scottish correspondent of The Obserons writes:
In selecting Earl of Balfour for his title, the new far has one back to the original home of his firaily. Balfour is small place in Fife, near Markinch. The Balfours of Balfour are a family of great antiquity. In some gereological works it is stated that the earliest known ancester was Siward, a Northumbrian living
From in the reign of Duncan I. Siward those writers trace his grestgrand- sou, Cetred de Strathor He was the father of William Balfour, ancestor of the Balfour of Burleigh in the male line, and. of the Bethunes of Balfour in the female line, and of Michael de Balfour of Strather.
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Balbirnie, who are descended from the Balfour of Balfour. The first mention of the Balfours of Balbirnie is about 1920, when Peter Balfour, on his marriage to a daughter of Sir Thomas Sibbald, of Bal- gonie, Fife, was granted a charter of the lands of Doran. "James, the younger son of Joha Balfour, fifth of Halhirnie, is the ancestor of the Balfours of Whittinge ham James went in early life to India where bo acquired a large fortune, and
PLATE GLASS WINDOW. parchasat the estates of Whittingehame in East Lothian, which hul for many
Looking through "my Toric lenses is generations. been the inheritance of the Hays and the Douglases. He also bought like looking through & Ane plate glass Balgonic in Fife, and Strathconan in Ross-madew.” said an American lady, in the shire. James married Eleanor Maitland course of her remarks while in a tram- daughter of Janna, eighth Earl'of Land-
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erdale. He was succeeded by the father car the other day. She said just the of the Earl of Balfour, whose wife was right thing. It cost a bit more to build the second daughter of the second Mar- a plate glass window and it cost a bit quess of Salisbury.
It may interest the curious to know more to make a pair of Toric leases then that the Earl of Palfour inherits the the ordinary fiat kind. Tories are more blood of Secretary Maitland, of Lething than worth the small difference in cost ton, and of Secretary Lord Burghley Anto you in the added comfort you derive amusing anccdole is related of the dig-from their use. Toris leases of any nity and impartiality when on the Bench of an ancestor of the Earl of Balfour prescription are manufactured by The who was a judge of the Commissary Hongkong Optical Co., successors to Court in Edinburgh in the seventeenth Clark & Co., Hanufacturing and Refract- century. On one occasion his sister aping Opticians, 53, Queen's Road, Central, peared as a witness, when, instead of re--ADVT cognising, he affected ignorance of her and asked, preparatory to administering the oath,, Woman, what is your name ?”
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His Lordship's other title, Viscount. Tm-
Surprised at such an interrogatory from prain of Whitlingehame, comes from the her own brother, she expressed horself as-well-known old beacon law of Trapean, tonished at his manner. He, however, re-which lies a few miles from Whittinge pented the question more peremptorily bame House, and is a prominent feature than at first, and with increasing surprise of contral East Lothian. It is the ill ehe exclaimed, “Dear me, Andra, you're referred to by Sir Walter Scott as, Dun- surely gone clean demented not to know pender Law. Traptain has recently come your own sister," to which the dignified into considerable public notice through judge replied that on the Beach he did the finding there of the celebratel Tra- not know father or mother, brother or prain Treasure, which had been buried for
fourteen centuries, and is now in the Scot
tinh Museum at Edinburgh.
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