FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 08, 8 October 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Magical Glass.— Place the palm of your hand completely over the mouth of a goblet nearly filled with water, bending the fingers at right angles. Then, still pressing .your palm down tightly, straighten oiit your fingers to a horizontal position. This will produce a partial vacuum, and you will be able to lift the glass from the' table.

A Little Experiment. — Not all colors absorb a like amount of warmth. - White, for example, absorbs much less warmth than black ; therefore we use light-colored clothing in " summer and dark in winter. The absorbent quality of colors is cleverly illustrated by the following experiment : — The inner sides of a cut glass are pasted out alternately with a white and black strip of paper and carefully dried, so that -they do not bulge. ' Then a number of pins are taken, their heads dipped into, molten wax or stearin and fastened against the outer side' of ! the glass.' A piece of candle is placed in the centre of. the glass and lighted. The candle end must not be much longer than' the ships -.of. paper. It will not be long before the pins fastened to the black surfaces will drop down, the heat having melted the wax or stearin. The pins fastened to the' white surfaces ren^ain in their, places much longer, _ .