SOME TRICKS TO TRY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 15

SOME TRICKS TO TRY

Here ate a few tricks to amuse vourselves with when there’s nothing else to do. A MATCH TRICK. This is called ‘The Hanving of a Hislwavyman,’ and all vou need is a nocket knife and a box of matches, This is how it is done: Break off a third of a good strong wooden match, afd from the larger piece left make the merrv highwayman bv svlifting wm the broken end to make legs The mateh-head, of course, is the victim’s head = To make the gallows, bend another match to right aneles (he carefvl not to break it auite throueh) and fix i in a hole which vou must make in a matchbox, The matehbox itself is the platform. Now stand the highwayman firmly on his feet under the gallows, ond with another match light the two heads, which should be touching. ‘These wilt fuse together, and after a while the gallows will straighten np, lifting the poor highwayman well into the air. This nearly alwavs works well, ° THE OBSTINATE CARD. Take an ordinary visiting card and hend the two ends just a little and stand it on these two edges on a table, Now try to blow it completely over, and you will be surprised to find how difficult is it. The secret lies int blowing not at or under the card at all, but straight downwards on to the table about eight inches awav from the card, Thy this and see,