Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-06-12 | Page 17 | Local News

In every sort of magic the magician's thumb Is his worst enemy: If he could strike off that thumb and still have its assistance when n- essnrv he w ould be a happy man. In closing the hand the thumb usually bends toward tho palm In advance of the lingers. In this way It many times Is much In the war. iind practice Is necessary to get a magician's thumb In-perfect training. But when he has practiced In the school for some time the thumb becomes so flexible that it will b.nd nearly to the hack Of the hand Cards are Invariably the beginning of a magician's education. In handling cards the thumb is especially In th- way, and this is the reason why this trickery with ih.- pasteboards Is selected for the beginner. be-ginner. To change one card for another In front of one's very eyes, and still to have made no perceptible movement of th. hand. Is a trick that the boys learn to perform before they have been in the SOfTOol for any gieat length of time This, as may be Imagined. Is a difficult piece of work to i me profit It nt In, and hi re js just the place where determination plays a great part iu the bo I success. Nina Carter Marbourg liv Leslie's Weekly.