FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 16 April 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

The Three Spoons .—This is a most capital trick, but it requires a confederate's aid. Place three spoons cross-iwise on a table, request any person to touch one and assure him you will find out the one he touches by a single inspection ;' although you -will leave the room while he does so, • and even if he touches it so gently as not to disarrange the order in which they are onoe put in the slightest degree. You retire ; and •when he gives- you notice to enter, walk up to the table and/Inspect the spoons, as if trying to ascertain whether there are any finger-marks upon them, and then deckle. Your confederate, of course, makes soire sign, previously agreed upon, to give you notice which is the identical spoon ; the actions may be, touching a button of fluis jacket for the top spoon, touching his chin for the second, and putting his finger to his lips may signify the lowest •; but the precise actions are immaterial, so that the spoon they indicate be understood. V .ii|, The Juggler's Joke.— Take a little ball in each band, and stretch your hands as far apart as you possibly can, one from the other ; then tell the company that you will make both the balls come into whichever hand they please, without " bringing the ' hands any nearer to each other. If any of , the lookers-on challenge your ability of achieving this feat, all you have to do , is to lay one of the balls down upon a /table, turn yourself round, and take it up with your other hand. Both the balls will thus be in one of your hands, without the latter approacMng the other, agreeHbly to your promise. -•