FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 18, 7 May 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

The Doubled Coins.— Take two sixpences, evenly stuck together, and. put them into a person's hand, as if there^was but one; then, acting as if you put a sixpence ircto your 'left hand, use some strange words, to makie It appear that yocr convey the sixpence from your own hand into the stranger's. Open your left hand, and.- -nothing will be seen; then open the'stranger s hand', and rub the sixpences apart (while so doing) with your thumb. He will be surprised to find two sixpences where he thought there was but one

, To Transform a Face' by Mjjans of Two Lookinn:-GJasses.-One of the two mirrors place horizontally Stand . the other at about right angles. If y Ou look down into, the upright glass a little above the l'me of juncture, you will see your mouth enlarged and your chin raised. By inclining the glass a little towards you; and moving your head up or down, other changes and multiplications will ensue, such as views of two * noses and four eyes, three noses and six eyes, and so forth. If you- place the edges of the same glasses' together perpendicularly to form an angle, you can see a singular reflection .of your face duplicated partly, but with an. eye between . two noses, two mouths, two chins, etc. , ' •