BILLY BOYS TRICK CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 20

BILLY BOYS TRICK CORNER

A PUZZLE KNOT. Interest in this trick depends very nueh on the way it is done, your clever •patter," and ao forth. You need only , large handkerchief, which is to bo icd once, as shown in the diagram alowing the middle part to fall over the lack of the left hand. One corner of the landkerchief is held by the finger and ;humb of the left hand, and the opposto corner with the right hand. Now, o long as the middle part of the handkerchief rests on the back of -the left land and the corners are held as describUailllilHltlUHHHliHlllfllllllHlHlllllllltllUllillllllllHillHHK

id, the knot remains tied; and while the end of the handkerchief is held with the left hand, as in the diagram, anyone can be allowed to pull hard at the corner and still the knot remains tied. The “patter” should lead up to this point, until the people in the ‘‘audience” are fuJy satisfied that the knot really is tied tightly. Now explain that you will hold the two ends of the knotted handkerchief (as shown in the diagram) and, a I the word of command, will cause the knots instantly to untie. Pull sharply upon the two corners, and at the same moment drop the left wrist, thus releasing the loop and allowing the handkerchief to open out —perfectly free of knots.

DROPPING THE FLAG

In AmuiuDcn's book on his flight

across the JL’oJfir Sea; Kiiser-Larsen, who was with him, tells very simply and dramatically the story of the great airship’s passage over the North Pole on May 12, 192(5, and the dropping of tho flags. At one o’clock of the night before the 12th (he writes) it speedily cleared up below us. We were all glad of this. It would have been a disappointment not to see the top of the world. At one o’clock I calculated the altitude the sun would Lave on the sextant at tho point of time when we were at the Pole. At 1.15 I went down on my knees and measured steadily out through one of the port-holes. When the reflection of the sun and tho bubble for tlie artificial horizon lay side by side, sharply touched by the marking threads, 1 announced “N >w we are there. ’ Under ini lay the Polar basin bathed in sunshine. One by one the flags were dropped down, while we stood with uncovered heads. W hen tlie ceremony vas over all our bunds sought Amundsons, and then, r,:>rurally enough, Mistings. There stood the cnly two men who had planted their country’s flag at both Poles.

A GAME TO PLAY,

i This is ft fine game for a winter evening. Al! the players are seated in a ring, witli one blindfolded in the centre? This player, carries a baton made Of rolled-no newspapers. When l e has been turned round three times he thrusts out with his baton in all directions. If he touches a player, he cries: “Hokey Pokey,” and the player who is touched mut reply by imitating the cry or growl of any animal he chooses. If the blindfolded player gve-'eg who it is, the two change places. If not, the one in the centre must pass on. and the game co l )!nines.