The Washington herald., 1911-07-02

handkerchief.
The glass will then be seen holding clear
water only, and, upon removing the hand
kcrchiIf from the other tumbler, the audi
ence will view the magical change which, un-
known to them. your iron and acid have pro-
duccd,
t. The Cord and Ring
This is a capital trick if smartly performed,
though the apparatus required IS of the most
simple description. Two pieces of cord three
yards long, and three rings OF any kind, the
larger the better, are all the properties re-
qured for il.
Placing the cords side by side, give one end
o. each to a gentleman to hold, and ask botn
to pull while you hold the other ends, so that
they may be satisfied they are strong and
perfect.
You next request some young gentleman,
who would not object to being cut IN halves,
to step upon your PLATFORM and, having oD-
tanned such a volunteer, desire him to re-
move his coat, explaining that, although ms
body is Of no consequence, 1t would be pity
to spoil his clothes.
Inform your victim that you VIII not hurt
him much-in fact, it will soon be all over
with hin-and to avoid making two cuts you
will tie the cords together. .,,
This you do by binding round the middle
of the cords borrowed handkerchief:
To enable a novice to understand this trek,
we will call one of the cords A and the other
b. II you take both ends of A in your night
hand and the ends of Is in your left. the cen
the handkerchief although they will still ap-
pear to be eide by side.
Stand your victim with his face from the
audience, place the handkerchief at the centre
of his back, and pass round his waist; bring
to the handkerchief
Now place one of the rings on b and tie A
and b on the tor. of the ring. This will bring
to your right hand. Place the second ring
back to your left hand: Put the last ring on
B, ana again tie A and b.
Ask your victim to hold the ends OF B IN
his right hand and the ends Of A in his LEFT,
and then help him on with his coat, so that
the cords are taken right through the sleeves.
Turn him round facing the audience, and draw
the cords out to their full length. Take one
end Of A and one of B and tie them together
in front of your victim. Thus you will have
one end of A and one end Of B on his right
hand and the other ends on his left.
Ask gentleman sitting on that side to
hold the left-hand cords, and one sitting on
the right to hold the others, and then tell the
audience you will proceed to take the rings
away without cutting or breaking the cords
while the ends are so held, and that you Will
atterward cause the. perfect cords to pass
through the~body Of the person upon whom
you are operating.
Put your hands under the victims coat and
unite the handkerchief, which you remove.
The centre Of the cords are now separate
they really form ends-so you can unfa7 .en
the coat preventing your audience seeing what
you do. .
When the rings are removed request the
gentlemen holding the cords to pull them as
hard aa possible. when they will come through
the victims coat, having apparently passed
through his body.
5. The Dictionary Trick.
For this you will need the following articles:
A dictionary, an envelope, note paper, pen
Gil and two black, cloth bags four inches wide
and eight inches long.
The bags are made of three pieces, and must
be sewn round the sides and bottom, leaving
the TOT open. You will now have bags ex-
actly alike, and each containing two compart-
ments, the inner piece of cloth in each case
being about an inch and half lower than
the sides. That you may be able to distin-
g,sh one bag from the other, it would be
well tc have different colored tapes to tie
them with.
Cut small pieces of cardboard equal to the
number of pages in your dictionary, and write
ON them from one upward. These are for the
left-hand compartment Of No. bag. Count
the number Of words, or lines, down page