Magic Trick 21-30

Magician Tells How to Grasp Two Corks Between Fingers

Cylindrical Objects Tend to Roll and Slip Away When Lifted Unless Right "Slant" Is Used.

THE ELUSIVE CORKS.

Stand two medium-sized corks together and ask someone to try to lift them between the index and middle fingers. It will be found that the corks roll away as they are grasped. The trick is done by slightly tilting the tips of the fingers, which prevents the corks from rolling. Corks of equal diam­eter at top and bottom should be used—wine corks if they can be found.

How to Make an Ace Disappear in Deck

Lindhorst Explains It Isn't There in First Place, You Just Make Your Audience Think So.

THE VANISHING ACE.

Take the four aces from a pack of cards. Secretly place the ace of diamonds in your pocket, and hold the other three in fan shape arrangement, with the ace of hearts in the center, with just the tip of the heart showing, making it appear like the ace of diamonds. Place the aces back in the pack, have the cards shuffled, and announce that you will make the ace of diamonds disappear from the deck into your pocket. Some­body then searches through the deck, and failing to find the ace, reaches into your pocket and brings forth the missing card.

Taking a Coin from Under a Hat Without Touching Hat—Yourself

Just Say You Have the Money in Your Hand and Curious Friends Will Do Rest.

TAKING A COIN FROM UNDER A HAT WITHOUT LIFTING THE HAT.

There is no illusion or magic connected with this trick. It is merely intended for a little fun. Place a coin under a hat and announce that you will bring the coin forth without lifting the hat. Make a few hypnotic passes over the hat, close your hand, and tell the onlookers that you have the coin in your hand. Some curious person will lift the hat, and find the coin still in its original position. You then pick the coin up, and you will have taken it from under the hat without lift­ing the hat. The idea is that somebody else, not you, lifts the hat.

Magician Explains How to Change Playing Card Into Box of Matches

Device Which You Can Make at Home Provides Means of Produc­ing Illusion Before Audience

CHANGING A CARD TO A BOX OF MATCHES.

Steam the label off a penny box of matches and paste it on one end of the back of a playing card. Paste the other end of the card on the box where the label has been removed, bend the card so it doubles over, and the label pasted on the back of the card then shows on top of the box. Paste a piece of paper the same color as the box on the overlapping part of the card. Unfold the card, hold it upright in your right hand, and the match box is hidden behind the card. Then still holding the card in this position, cover it with the left hand, fold it around the box, and presto, you have a box of matches.

How to Balance Two Coins Between Your Fingers

Will L. Lindhorst Explains How Cleverly Hidden Match Sticks Support Coins, One Above the Other.

BALANCING TWO COINS BETWEEN YOUR FINGERS.

Place two coins side by side, and cut a match stick the length of the combined diameters of the coins. Hide the match stick in your hand, and tell the audience that you will balance the coins, standing one above the other, between your index finger and thumb. Put the coins and the match stick in the "same hand, place the coins on top of the stick, and you will find it easy to balance them between the fingers with the stick, which is hidden from view, for support.

Rubber Sponge Used to Perform Magic in Hand of Spectator

Magician Makes Another Appear in Palm of Subject While He Holds Three With Fingers Clenched.

THE SPONGE TRICK.

Buy a small rubber sponge and break it into five pieces. Holding these in your hand, pass two to a person in your audi­ence, instructing him to close his hand over them. Pick two more from your hand and press them together between your fingers so they appear as one. Hand these also to the person, who upon receiving them closes his hand, and is then told that he holds three pieces of the sponge. Pretend that you are placing the remaining piece in his pocket, telling him at the same time that you will make it vanish from his pocket into his hand. Upon openng his hand, he finds that he holds four pieces instead of the supposed three.

Tells How to Find a Selected Card in a Pack

Not So Hard if All the Others Are of One Color—Trick Is Substituting Another Pack.

It is easy for the performer to find the selected black card in the red pack.

FINDING A SELECTED CARD IN A PACK

Separate the red cards of a pack from the black, and stack the cards of each color in separate packs. Placing the red deck in your pocket, ask somebody to select a card from the black deck, and exhibit it to persons in the audience. While this is taking place, casually slip the black cards in your pocket, substituting the red cards in their place. Keeping1 the audience ignorant of this change, have the selected black card placed in the red deck which you hold, and the solution of the trick becomes simple. The difficulty lies in preventing1 those in the audience from seeing you exchange the packs.

Magician Breaks Stick Held Up By Paper Suspended on Knives

Sharp Blow With Poker or Club Will Shatter Wood and Often Not Even Tear Strips.

BREAKING A STICK SUSPENDED ON PAPER.

A stick of soft wood about two feet long and one inch thick, two strips of paper with the ends pasted together form­ing loops, two sharp knives, and a piece of hardwood, or an iron poker, are the paraphernalia needed for this trick. Have two persons stand about three feet apart and hold the knives extended. Place the paper strips over the sharp edges of the knives, and suspend the 2-foot stick through the lower ends of the paper loops. Stand off and strike the stick a sharp blow in the center with the piece of hardwood or the iron poker, and it will break in two. In many instances it has been found that the paper does not even tear.

Clever Trick Performed With Ordinary Ruler
Deceptive Use of Hands Makes It Appear to Stick to Palm Defying Law of Gravity

MAKING A NON-ADHESIVE RULER STICK TO YOUR HAND.

With an ordinary ruler in your hand, announce to your audience that, without the use of glue or other adhesive ma­terial, you will make the ruler stick to the palm of your hand. Merely as a pretense rub the ruler on your knee, and place it across the palm of your left hand, which is held in a horizontal position.

Grasping the wrist with your right hand, slowly elevate the left arm, turning the back of the hand to the audi­ence, and placing the index ringer of the right hand over the ruler. With the back of the hand turned toward the audience, it appears that the ruler is sticking to the hand.

How to Get Water Into Glass When It Is Held Upside Down

HOW TO PARTLY FILL A GLASS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN WITH WATER.

Fill a shallow bowl with water, turn a medium-sized glass upside down and place it in the bowl, and the air inside the glass will prevent the water from entering. Take the glass out of the water, light a small piece of tissue paper, drop it into the glass, and just as the flame is about to be extinguished quickly turn the glass upside down, and again place it in the bowl. The burning paper, consuming the oxygen inside the glass, will produce a vacuum which will draw the water quick­ly into the glass.

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