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Show PARLOR MAGIC. A Clovop Candlo Trick That Will Amuse the Younoters. Hero Is a parlor magic trick which never falls to capturo an audience nnd which, at tho samo time, is so simple that any ono can do It You need six or moro candles and ns many candlesticks, candle-sticks, or you can get along without tho candlesticks by holding a lighted, match to tho bottom of each of tho cnndles, and then, when It has softened ever so slightly, setting the candle firmly in a saucer. Tho wax or thllow will harden in n moment, holding the candlo erect in its place. Mnlro n hole in ono sldo of ench candle, can-dle, cutting clear through until tho wick Is severed. Theso holes must bo nt various distances from tho top dlf-1 ferent in each candle. Now, if yon should light one of these candles it would burn steadily until tho flamo got down to tho hole, when tho cut In tho wick would cause tho candlo to go out If you should light them all together they would go out at different times, ns tho holes are at different dif-ferent places. This Is whore your trick comes in. riaco your candles In a row on a table with tho holes away .from your audience and then light all six. Now, you begin to relate a story about a little girl who was alone In tho house and was afraid of tho dark, and Who lighted six cnndles to keep up her cour-ngo. cour-ngo. She heard queer noises about tho bouse, nnd drow close to tho light and then (pointing to tho candlo with the hole nearest tho top) the first candlo went out. Of course you tlmo your first words, so that you say "out" Just heforo tho flame reaches the hole. As you reach tho second point in your tnlo tho second candle go(s out, and so on throughout the restlof tho six. You may havo tho holes vary tat a fraction of on Inch in their distances from tho top of tho condlq and tell a very short story, or you may have your tale a long one, with the ( stances of tho holes from tho top to vjiry an inch or bo. By first lighting one cnndlo and watching it burn for a fow i ilnutes you can toll almost exactly ho v long the flame will take to reach a g ven point If you do not havo the car dies go out In rotation, but skip aroun 1 from tho first to tho fifth, then to the second, ta tho sixth, the fourth aad.jjlrd.y.ou i can still further mystify your auaience, nnd If your story be well told the effect ef-fect will bo very pretty Indeed. |