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Show A CLEVER TRICK. To Cut ac Apple Without Cutting the Skin. To er.t an apple into two or more pieces without also dividing the skin seems an impossible feat, but thai it can be performed with comparative ease anybody following the directions here given will testify. Apples are so common a fruit that they figure on every well-organized dinner table, and the little trick, when performed as an after dinner feat, is really quite startling. star-tling. An apple with a firm, smooth skin should be selected. Take a long, slender darning needle and thread it with silk or cotton. Linen thread is perhaps the best, as it is not so liable 1 to break. Begin at the stem and take a long stitch under the skin of the apple, being careful not to go so deep that the point of the needle does not readily emerge. Take another stitch in the same direction, sewing right around the apple, exactly as you would cut it in half. TV lien the thread comes out again near the stem, take the two ends in each hand, cross them and pul' steadily. The thread will, of course, cut the apple in two. leaving no mark on the skin, and without breaking It beyond the tiny holes made by the needle, which are quite invisible. By repeating the performance n different parts of the apple it may be cut into t .iarters and eighths, and cn being peeled will fall into these sections. |