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The Virtue of Shaking Hands
Keyes, Frances Parkinson | January 5, 1927 issue

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The article presents an experience of the author of having a dinner with the wife of a U.S. official who has been for years in Philippine Islands. She led the author up a stairway with a balustrade of dark hardwood, exquisitely carved, into a bedroom where this hardwood and this carving were repeated in every piece of furniture in the immense, canopied fourpost bed, in the dressing table, cheval glass, wardrobe, and chairs. The author could not refrain from exclamations of admiration; and he received his reward when he was taken into four other bedrooms, each more beautifully furnished than the last.

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DINNERS & dining; PUBLIC officers; HOUSE furnishings; INTERIOR decoration; HARDWOODS; PHILIPPINES
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