Now shake hands, everybody, whether you know each other or not. Let's be sociable. Shake hands! You have heard that before? And immediately you started in to shake hands with friend and foe and foreigner? Hardly. No real incentive is offered there for shaking hands with people you have never seen before or people you see every day of your life, no incentive other than a sense of duty, and a sense of duty is not what one would call particularly successful in promoting the real spirit of sociability which makes a social evening, or the lack of which, breaks it. It does seem so inane to ask people to shake hands with each other, and yet, if a leader can once get a group to laugh heartily as a group, if she can give them a sufficiently interesting incentive for grasping the hand of a neighbor with real vim and enthusiasm even if it is for the purpose of saving themselves from dire penalties! They are won and one for the rest of the evening! But just telling guests to be sociable and to shake hands will not do it. It is necessary to create a setting and furnish an incentive, and instead of playing on the guest's sense of duty, to play on their sense of humor. They are invited to shake hands with each other, but are warned that the only handshake allowed is a vigorous side-to-side swing, and are further cautioned that it is fully as great a crime to be seen using the ordinary handshake as it is to be caught not shaking hands at all; that several policemen in the crowd will see to it that these laws are enforced; and finally, that any violator of these laws will certainly repent at leisure and in public. Some ten policemen are chosen, their number of course depending on the size of the group. At a signal the handshaking begins. The policemen are more than vigilant in discharging their duties, and several culprits who were caught standing about just looking on, and some of the ladies who shook hands in a manner not vigorous enough to suit the policemen, are escorted to the platform, there to sit in the public eye till the leader's whistle stops the frantic, vigorous handshaking, which should be given about five minutes time. The next game of the evening might well be a hoax, with these culprits used as the victims.