FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

_ An Acrobatic Bottle.— Tie a cord from one sicb of the room to another, thus making a loose swing, and announce to the spectators that you are going to lay an empty bottle crosswise on the cord and make it stay there without holding it. Everybody will know, of .course, that there is some trick about it but, that is the very thing that everybody will wish to see' You will need a small piece of chalk, which you must rub along the cord at the place where you are going to put the bottle This will prevent the bottle from slipping. Acrobats rub chalk on the soles of their shoes for the same purpose. Now, get an umbrella- or a parasol with a curved handle, insert the handle in the mouth of the bottle, and lay the bottle on the cord, moving back and forth a little at a time until you get it balancedr Th^en you may take away your hands and the bottle will swing of its own accord. All that is necessary in a feat of this kind is a delicate touch, so as to get things nicely adjusted.