The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-08-11
A Soap-BubbIe Magician.

Very wonderful as we'll as very beauti-
full possibilities lurk in the basin of soapy
water and the clay pipe, when skillfully
manipulated by such "A Soap-Bubble
Magician" as Meredith Nugent writes of,
Nicholas:
See that white rose?" Philip ex>
claimed, pointing to beautiful one rest
ing upon a lacquered tray. well, l ani
going to put it inside soap-bubble;" and
in very few moments the flower was
sphered over by bubble so large and
perfect that it seemed as if made of
purrest glass. Following this, Phil set
the humming top to spinning, and amazed
his audience by placing a bubble over
that ALSO While the top still hummed
under its many-hued canopy, Philip blew
another bubble, and called the attention
Of those present to the fact that an old
soon as pricked. But here is a case" he
exclaimed triumphantly, where this old
adage, like so many others, is proved
to be false Philip dropped pen
through the film; then he dropped another
pen through; then Il small key: then a
larger key; then two nails; and then con
cluded the remarkable exhibition by
pouring some soapy water through, after
which the bubble broke. The unusually
long duration of the bubbles was due
also, as Philip explained, to the low tenn
| perature of the room. AS soon as the
| little ones were assembled in colder
room, dressed as if for a sleig h-ride, Phil
blew bubble very carefully upon a
small looking glass. At the expiration of
| thirty seconds it's brilliancy was seen to
be greatly dimmed. and by the time fifty
| i. Lcl oil +ro h a Il
gone. There" cried Phil, lis a soap
| bubble which will last a year, provided
| the room is kept cold enough, for that
soap-bubble is frozen.' This performance
| so delighted the children that Phil COW
| cred the glass with a whole array Of
frozen bubbles; then he broke some with
| pencil, and famed the light pieces of
! ice. which were like tissue-paper, all
about the room.
Our young magician now resumed his
| wonderful entertainment in the warmer
apartment. He began by blowing a large
bubble upon the lacquered tray: then he
| blew another bubble inside of this first
one. "Two," he called out; and next, as
if to amaze his audience completely, he
blew another bubble inside of this sec
ond one, filling it, as he did so, with
| smoke.
| II am about to show you what | think
| is the prettieSt experiment of ALL he
| said, and began to blow a large bubble
upon the plate. Then he placed the light.
| ed candle within lamp chimney, and
thrust the chimney down into the great
bubble.
The browning triumph was yet to come.
however. Philip took a tumbler and half
| filed it with soaDy water: then he drew
from the pasteboard box small Ameri-
can flag, which he fastened on a stick
supported by bit of wire so that it
hoated over the tumbler. Then, putting
a long clay pipe into the glass, he called
to his uncle to blow plenty of smoke
through the pipe. The moment Pills
uncle did so there issued from the tum-
bier an opal stream of wondrous beauty
hundreds and hundreds of pure white
bubbles, which poured down the sides of
the tumbler and upon the looking glass
on which it had been placed. In few
moments one of the little bubbles broke.
A puff of smoke shot forth, forming, as it
did so, a dainty, tiny ring; then another
bubble broke. and another ring appeared
then the bubbles began to explode in such
rapid succession that it became impossi,
BILE to count the tiny wreaths.-St. Mich.
olas.