Show A keat parlor trick this Is a neat and effective trick to perform before a company of men women and children from whom you can borrow the few materials you need these are a silver half dollar a large wire hairpin a heavy ring and a long hatpin or stickpin bend tho the hairpin into the shape shown in the picture force the halt half dollar into the narrow hook book on one end of the hairpin which hook book you have pinched well together so BO that it will grip the cola coin tightly and hang the ring on the other more open hook now balance the coin at a point near its ita edge and in line with the two hoks on the point of the hatpin which you hold vertically in your left hapel I 1 AIL can nearly always make it bal a on n some point but to make the tr A effective the pin should be very new n the edge of tho the coin so BO it if the abe rn not very heay aou ou may have to borrow another one and slip it in the hook beside the first or you can use a light ring and substitute a quarter for the half dollar now if you blow against the ring the whole affair m v ill turn on its pivot and by giving a good puff every time the ring cornea comes round you can make it spin very fast and keep heep on spinning a long time if the hatpin is very sharp and of very hard steel it will gradually bore a hole bole in the coin in the needle coln coin and R ring ing deed it la is possible to bare clear through a soft boft coin in this way of course you should practice this trick before aou ou try it in public then if the ring Is a brass one and the coin your own you can give your mety merry go round to the youngsters who will have lots of fun with it |