Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18
THREE SIMPLE TRICKS FOR THE
coy MAGICIAN.


To be successful in tie art of con-
juring even to a small degree. boy
must acquire the quality of patience,
for only by SO doing will he be able
70 master thos. little movements OF
the hands necessary to deceive the
eyes of an audience
Very often the simplest magical
tricks are the Iaost battling, and as
they usually require but little appar-
atus and are thus quickly prepared,
they are always popular among boys.
But when a trick is of simple ma
ture, its success is generally largely
due to the cleverness with which it is
performed; therefore, i should be
practiced repeatedly before being ex-
hibited, until every step is thorough
ly memorized and 1t can be gone
through gracefully without single
blunder.
Three excellent tricks are described
below.
To Make ID Coins Increase to 20.
In this trick IA coins (nickeIs and
pennies will do are dropped into a
plate, each being counted as dropped;
then in order to impress the number
Of the coins upon the minds Of the
| audience they are picked up one by
one, counted, and dropped into a sec
ond plate, and a member of the audi
ence is invited to count them over for
third time, placing them back in
the first plate. With everybody salts
| fed that there are but IA coins, a
wand is passed around the plate, and
the magician declares that the coins
have increased to the number oil 70.
To prove his statement he requests
one Of the audience to bring his hat
to the table, and after pouring the
| plate of coins into the hat, asks that
they be counted. To the surprise of
all, the owner of the hat actually
finds &c coins as stated.
This is the secret of the trick. On
the bottom of the first plate there is
a small pocket that contains the ex-
ira coins. The plate used should be
an old one, because the rim upon the
bottom must be cut to orm an open
ing to the pocket. Tn cutting should
be done with met ile and q piece
of the rim about oAe inch in length
should be removed. Gig. L. Out Of
q piece of thick cardboard cut a disk
to fit inside of the RIM then from
the center of this remove a strip one
inch wide (the width of the opening
cut out of the RIM, and glue the
| two remaining pieces to the bottom of
the plate, as shown in Fig 2, with
the space between left for the pocket.
A white piece OF paper of as nearly
the color of the china as possible
should next be fitted inside of the
rim and be pasted to the pieces Of
cardboard, to form the bottom a the
pocket. Fig. shows a sectional view
of the plate and pocket.
OF course the coins must be slipped
into the pocket beforehand, and dur
ing the performance Of the trick the
plate must be held with the open end
of the pocket either level or tipped
up, until it is time to turn the coins
into the hat 1t is well to roll Up
your coat sleeves before doing this
trick so no one viii suspect that the
coins have dropped out OF them
To Break Match; Then Restore It.
This trick is not only a good one
for a show, but is a splendid one to
do at a party. In full view OF the
audience, a match is placed in the
center CT a handkerchief, the hand
kerchief is rolled up, and some one
is requested to take hold of it and