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Show I FUNNY ACROBATIC BALLET. Direction! for Rigging Up a Most Amusing Performer. You probably liavo among your frlcnils 8omo one who Is envied by nTl tlio boys becnuao ho can stand upon bin hands, and perhaps walk a fow yards In ,tlmt startling position. But what would ho say If you undertook to remain In thnt position a wholo evening? If you will follow those directions, says Good Literature, you- will sue. cced In surprising as well as amiMlng The Funny Acrobats, your friends nnd (apparently) accomplish accom-plish a wonderful feat In acrobatics. First procuro a largo roomy pair of gloves that will fairly lit your baro foot, such as an old pair of long-slooved long-slooved ones. Draw thorn on and button but-ton firmly around the ankles. Now sot an old, shirt, Insert your legs Into tho ulcoves and then you nro ready to put on, tho trousors. Two small' holes should bo made In tho seat, for, m you" can understand by this tlmo, your head Is going to bo looted there. Got somebody to holp you wrlgglo Into them, and when "you'vo put your arms through tho trouser logs have your "valot" securo tho trousers firmly around your wnlst by means of a belt. Ho will also have to help you on with tho stockings In which you en- bobo your baro arms. If you have a big, husky pair of arms you won't L "ood any cotton to swell It out and inako It look more llko n leg, but It ; your aruiB aro at all thin It would be a good plan to stuff In somo. A pair of your own shoes will bo tho next feature fea-ture to "top off" with. Most any pair will (It your hands. , But where Is tho head going? - n. Tlmt ,s th0 un- if nlost tlllnc of all. f ! Tho 110011 8 a Bro-)' Bro-)' ) id tcsque mask which rti y should bo fastened ili ifcSA t0 o neck of ft SffS. ay II your shirt at tho VT J II empty neck tip- If b 1 d o down, of II jf course, with tho zsit tape out (as shown i In tho diagram). -'-nv And llow bo and ;TH '00' ut yourself In f? sjryl tho glass! You j will bo startled to J f seo a very queer ( (I llguro standing 1 i if head downward, ' iLi (lif and It your friend JT bus been a good j ci2 "valot" the Illusion should bo very funny, Indeed. But tho best way to get tho most atnuBoment Is to dress up several of your friends In a similar manner, and then "spring" them as ono of tho numbers num-bers of an evening's entertainment. Tho piano starts a lively air and out oomo tho performers. If they aro at all up to their parts tho audlonce -should be In spasms of laughter In a allnuto at tho capors of tlio Upsldo-downellls. Upsldo-downellls. They always keep tho faces of tho masks toward tho audience. |
