The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-05-25
A FEAT OF CONJUR|NC,
The Popular Coffee Trick and
How It Is Performed.
METHODS OF THE MAGICIAN.
. Changing White Paper Into Milk Blue
Paper Into Mocha and Bran Into Cut
Sugar Is Comparatively Easy When
You Have Been Shcwn the Way.

fessional conjurer Is that known as
falutin title. AS. for instance. Mar
about Mocha" Is better for n pro.
gram. II has the advantage, too. OF
not conveying any idea of what the
trick is to be. The trick Is as suita'
BILE for the drawing room as for the
stage and an amateur with little
practice may do II easily. Remember
with little practice, for, like every
thing In conJuring. not only a little
but sometimes great deal of practice
is necessary If the performer desires
TO do his tricks with ease and skill
and so as to bewilder his audience.
When about to present this trick the
performer has on table three wooden
boxes, large goblet shaped glass jar
and two German silver shakers" or
cups, such as are used in mixing lem
en- juice. Ice. ETC., for glass OF lem
enade. In one Of the boxes Is
quantity of bran. in another some
pieces of chopped up white paper and
in the third similar lot of blue pa
per. These, with two pieces OF black
velvet, each about nine inches square,
and a paper cylinder, are all that ap-
pear TO be used in the trick. Picking
up one shaker. the performer fills II
with white paper and Immediately
pours It back into the box. Again he
dips the shaker into the box and. with
a shoveling motion, fills 1t and stands
1t on a table so that every one may
see il. The other shaker he fills III
the same way, but with the blue pa
per. Finally the glass jar Is filled with
bran and stood on table by itself.
Over one shaker Is spread one Of the
velvet squares and on top of 1t is
placed a small round metal plate. The
other shaker is covered with the sec
ond velvet square, but without any
metal plate.
"Remember," says the performer,
"this cup is filled with white paper
and that one with blue" and, pulling
the velvet piece of one cup, he pours
from 1t into small pitcher about Il
pint of milk-"The milk of human
kindness as extracted from the daily
press Removing the metal plate and
the velvet from the second cup, he
pours from It into the first cup steam
ing Mocha coffee; no grounds for
complaint Picking up the paper cyl
inder. he drops 1t over the upper part
Of the glass jar. and. lifting 1t up al
most Immediately, il is found that the
bran is gone aud the jar is filled With
hump sugar
It Is a SNOWY trick which is general
ly followed by applause. that sweetest
Of music TO a performer. Here is the
explanation
In each box of paper Is duplicate
shaker. one filled with milk. the other
with coffee Fitted into the mouth vt
each shaker Is a shallow metal saucer
tbp edges tlaring out so 9s to rest on
4he mouth of the cup. At one point on
the edge of each saucer Is soldered "A
semicrcle of stiff wire about the size
Of . dime. so that the performer may
easily grasp it. On each saucer Is
glued some bits of the paper with
which the shaker is supposed to be
nlled. Inese Shahers s'ahc upr'su' w
tne box ID such posl'ioh tnat the wire
piece OF the saucer VIII De toward the
performer when ne Is reaoy 10 reuo'e
the veivet cover. AS ne sho'e'S ,"e
paper into the SHAKER ne 'eaVeS ,n"'
one W the box. grasPs the o'her n'ieo
Win mix or coffee ano pr'nGS o"'
some OF the Loose blts or paper ehnf'
M rounc the tc1 lhese h' oruNu'S
OF c"releSSly ana IN ""ihs So Wneu
necessary, adjusts the shaker y" 'na'
the wire finger niece VIII be ID the
proper position ~ covering 'he ShnN
ers thn performer takes ho'h 'o' 'ne
veivei covers so that fhe thumo ah'
the third aud fourth fingers nre under
;tfe c"rer, and with these ne 'a'cheS
hold of the projecting hnger piece
Pitts M the saucers ana draws .'heu'
sil. dropping them instantly ihto pau
ded box or hag fastened az 'he DICK
of The table.
AS glass jar Is transparent II Io'
lows that mere saucer OF hiah III us
mouth us,tllI 6n resort is nht