Show A Pretty Party Trick Here Is a little feat that any boy cnn perform and yet It looks like a trick of a magician If you wish to entertain a company with It tell them that you have I a bottle and a goblet both full to the I brim of water and that you are going to empty the goblet by means of the bottle llhout taking a drop of water from the latter This Is the way td proplre for It With a rcclhol wire bore two holes through a cork and into them Insert two straws one of them extending above the cork as high as the goblet Is deep the other about I twice as high Now with a little kneaded bread or wax close the upper end of the shorter straw and then force the cork Into the mouth of the bottle until the water spurts I out through the longer straw Meanwhile you have the goblet of wa tel on the table near you and also a baaln or bowl and a pair of scissors Hold i the goblet over the basin with your left I hand and with your light turn the bottle ujldc down putting the shorter straw Inside the goblet As you do this have some one take the scissors and cut off the closed end of the shorter straw Water will at once begin to run out of the longer straw Into the l basin and will continue to run until the goblet Is empty You must of course hold the bottle so that the cohort straw will reach down to the bottom of tho goblet This Is simply the operation of a siphon I |