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FAMILY FUN

TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS. (Special to the N.Z. Tablet by Mahatma.) Bending a Borrowed Watch.—To bend a watch, the property of a lady or gentleman friend, is a feat ghich will cause no little surprise, yet this trick, which is frequently employed by professional magicians to open a performance in which a watch plays the leading role, is only an optical illusion. Take the borrowed watch between the thumbs and first fingers of both handsthe metal back facing the audiencethen bring the two pairs of fingers together, allowing them immediately afterwards to resume their former position. After you have made this movement four or five times the impression on the minds of the spectators will be that the watch is being really bent backwards and forwards. To Tell the Court Cards by Touch.—To tell whether a card is court or not by simply weighing it in the hand appears to the uninitiated a marvellous feat. To perform such a trick proceed as follows. Take out all the court cards from the pack. Take a pocket knife and, holding the blade at an angle of 45 degrees, draw •it along the edges in a manner which, while being quite imperceptable to sight, may be readily discovered by touch. Mix the marked cards with the others. Hand the pack to anyone to shuffle, who then hands them back to you face downwards. You then draw the cards one by one from the bottom and turn the court cards up as they come. Throwing the others aside. The effect is very mystifying, and will set the company guessing at all kinds of explanations. A second way of performing the trick, is to have a confederate who Heads upon or kicks the performer’s foot every time a picture card is produced. The confederate must in this case sit directly opposite the performer and each card must be held up, facing the audience, whilst the conjuror pretends to be in deep thought.

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New Zealand Tablet, 31 July 1913, Page 62

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328

FAMILY FUN New Zealand Tablet, 31 July 1913, Page 62

FAMILY FUN New Zealand Tablet, 31 July 1913, Page 62

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