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FAMILY FUN

An Amusing Cotton Trick. All are aware of the irresistible impulse to remove a piece of white cotton or 'fluff' that may have settled on a friend's black coat. Trading upon this little human weakness, you may have a little joke at someone's expense by secreting in an inner pocket a reel of white cotton. The end of this is threaded upon a needle, and carried outside the coat. A piece of cotton about two inches long is left hanging down. Someone is sure to notice it sooner or later, and he vail try to take it off for you, but the amusement begins when he commences to pull out yard upon yard of cotton. ■ A Disappearing Glass. This is a very mysterious trick. ! It must be performed neatly though, or the effect is lost. The performer says he will cause a penny to disappear in a very mysterious manner. He borrows a penny, places it on his table, and covers it with art' inverted glass. Over this he places a newspaper. This is pressed well down over the glass. Next he takes up both glass and paper together 'to show that the penny is still there.' Now he asks a .lady to strike the glass as hard as she can with a hammer, which the conjuror hands to her. Everyone expects to hear the sound of breaking glass, but instead the hammer only flattens out the paper, the glass having disappeared. This is proved by removing the paper. The performer apologises for having vanished the glass instead of the penny. The explanation is as "follows:—The performer presses the newspaper, which should be fairly stiff,, well down over the glass, thus making a- mould. Now he takes a chair, and placing it behind the table, with the company of course in front, sits down. Lifting up the glass and paper to show that the coin is still there, the performer drops the glass on to his lap. 'From this position it is allowed to slide to the floor. The paper mould is then placed again over the coin and the trick is done. A Neat Little Catch.—lf the conversation should turn to figures, you ■ may say ' That reminds me of a friend who had a perplexing little account sent to him by his ironmonger. This was how it read.' You take from your pocket a sheet of paper and write as follows: —• s. d. 6 Zinc pails / ... 18 0 2 Wooden do 6 0 .12 0 Being an honest man he sent the account back, ; and pointed out that the amount of the second item had been deducted from, instead of added to the first amount. The ironmonger, however, returned the account, saying that it was quite in order. You ask the company how he made this out, and when they have ' given up' you explain that as 2 pails ' wouldn't do ' (wooden do) they were returned. A Match Box Trick.—Take one of Bryant and May's wooden match boxes, and after emptying it show it to the members of your company, allowing them to examine it as closely as they choose. - For this purpose you separate the box from the slide. Now slide the box into the cover, and give it to someone to hold. ■ After some incantation on the part of the performer, the. box is opened by the person holding it and is found to contain a penny. An expert conjuror could easily palm the penny and drop it in whilst shutting the box, but the trick can be done quite easily without the knowledge of palming. When you expose the empty box in two parts, have a penny in the top of the slide part of the box. This is held naturally in the left hand, with the fingers over the penny. Now slip the box right into the slide, and out the other side sufficiently far 1 for the penny to drop from the top of the box. Now close the latter, and pass it round.- .

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New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 62

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FAMILY FUN New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 62

FAMILY FUN New Zealand Tablet, 4 September 1913, Page 62

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