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Show PARLOR MAGIC. rw Simple end'Easy Trleka That WIN Mystify Children. To entertain children at Christmas time It Is a good idea to show them ioiuo magic tricks. Tho little ones' I will wonder at them and enjoy the afternoon or evening very greatly. Following are a few simple tricks which any amateur may perform: Tako a penny or a dime and place It in tho hollow of your band. Now, with the other disengaged hand take a clothes brush or a hat brush and try to dislodge or move the coin from tho hand by the action of brushing It Try and try again, you will find out It ennnot be doue. Remember you must . only brush the coin in trying to re-I re-I move it Take a linen or cotton handkerchief devoid of cologne or perfume (be sure of this). Plnco the center of the band, kerchief over an ordinary gas Jet Pull tho handkerchief down' tight, making euro It lies flat and even over the gas Jet Turn on the gas full up, apply a lighted match, holding it a fow Inches Inch-es nbovo tho Jet, and. the gas will Immediately Im-mediately ignlto and burn as brightly OB though there was no handkerchief In the way. Do not allow it to burn too long, as the handkerchief Is liable to become scorched, not from thp flame, but from the heated gas t'p. Tho gas easily penetrates through the meshes of the handkerchief, and the flame from the gas tip burns above the tip at least a half to a full Inch and not close to It as a person might suppose, sup-pose, and that explains the mystery. A very deceptive optical illusion is accomplished by the use of a large china chi-na plate. Sitting at one side of the table, you rest the plate on your knee so that about one-third of It Shows above the table. Take a knife In both hands and rest It on the plate. If you now lower and raise the knees al-temately, al-temately, quickly and evealy, it gives a motion to the plat, as If It 'were actually revolving round. la fact It Is so illusive that to the operator him-self him-self it baa that same appearance. It Is an accepted theory that a solid metallic body cannot float but ene eau disprove that saying by causing an or water and sot sink. ' Take, a needle ) and make sure that It la devoid of I moisture and perfectly dry. Geatly place It carefully on the surface of the water, remove the band Just as carefully, care-fully, nnd If you are fortunate the nee-dle'wlll nee-dle'wlll be seen floating as If It werp a bit of -wood. Instead of steel If the band is not steady the needle can be lowered to the water by two loops of thread or on tho prongs of a fork, , Palling in either of these methods, put tho needle on a piece of cigarette ciga-rette paper, which, you place on tho water. As nwn as the paper becomes saturated it sinks to the bottom, but th8 ncedlo remains floating placidly on the top. |