The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-12-31
TRICKS WITH CARDS.
!kILLFuLLY DONE, THEY WILL AMUsE
AND MYSTIFY YOUR GUESTS.

How to Tell Every Gard In the Pack
with Its Back Turned Toward You.
The Thirty-one Trick - A Clever
Way to Tell Drawn Cards.
This undoubtedly is one of the best
illusions performed with cards, as II
not only brings the whole pack into
use, but is also legitimately founded
upon arithmetical principles. BY this
trick you are able to tell the whole pack
Of cards with the backs toward you;
also to sort them after being cut any
number of times In the mere act Of
dealing them out In a row. 1t is per
formed thus:
A pack of cards being distributed on
the table, with their faces uppermost,
they are picked up one by one In the
following order: Q, A. 1, 7, 8, king, 8, 10.
knave, 0, 2, queen. Repeat the same Sc
rles Of every thirteen cards. Four times
over will of course complete the pack.
That the above order may be remem-
bered, the following words are used as
a guide to the memory and they are
intended to enumerate the cards:
8 4
The 'lHty-f0urth : regiment .1ea beats the
seventy-afth; up starts the king, with
8 10 8 knave
eight thousand and three men and
0 2 queen
ninety-two women.
Hence this trick is said to be done
'by wordsr'
The pack being arranged. 1t may be
handed t6any Of the company Ito cut"
with the proviso that this operation be
done whist fashion-that Is, by taking
portion of the cards of in a mass
and placing the lower division on what
was before the upper one. This done
fairly and properly, 1t may be repeated
any number OF times, as the audience
may think at. You then take the pack
and by feint catch sight of the bot
tom card. Having learned this ut may
be done at glance, In a second of
timel, you have the key to the whole
trick. Then commence 1t by dealing
the cards out in the ordinary way. but
In thirteen heaps. Having dealt out
thirteen, begin again and cover them;
then go on as before. When finished
there will be Of course four in each
heap. Now every heap will contain all
four Of the same denomination, as the
four knaves in one heap, the four sew.
ems In another, and so on. The thir-
teenth, or last heap, will be OF the same
denomination as the one at the bottom
which you have contrived to see, and,
according to whatever that card is, all
the suits will follow, but In the reverse
order, as the words above indicate.
Thus suppose the eight was the bot ,m
card. Then on dealing them out they
would be in the following order: King,
0, I, l. 4, 9, queen, 2, 0, knave, 8, 10, g.
and youlSegin reciting In the mind the
words you use from that passage in the
sentence, working from right to left,
which the card indicates in the above.
You would say:
8 10 3 knave
Eight thousand and three men and
2 queen 9 4
ninety-two women; slxty-fourth
l 8
regiment beats the seventy-ffth; up
king
starts the king with, etc. Here. Of
course, is your starting point.
The same principle holds good what
ever the card may be. Any person ask
ing for card. all four Of every suit
may be found In the same heap and
can be quickly turned up as soon as re-
quired with little practice, to the ut
ter astonishment and wonder OF the
company.
BY taking up the cards in the same
order as before, but all OF one suit. you
may easily discover the position OF any
one card that is demanded.
A fine trick with cards is called '-thir-
ty-One." It is played with the 6rst six
Of each suit the aces in one row, the
deuces In another. the threes In anoth-
er, then the fours. fives and skies, all
laid In rows. The object now viii be