FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 13 May 1909, Page 758

FAMILY FUN

To Suspend a Ring by a Burnt Thread. — Take a piece of coarse cotton thread, and soak it for an hour or so in a very salt brine. Dry it, and tie to one end a small ring. Tie the other end to the gas fixture or a small bracket, so that it will hang, suspended. Then set fire to the thread. It will burn, but the ring will still remain suspended by the ashes of the thread. It is a good idea to soak a number of pieces of thread and dry them. Then they are ready if one wishes to perform a bit of parlor magic.

Miniature Fountain. — Take an ounce vial and fill it three-quarters full of water ; then make a hole in the cork and insert a small tube or a stout piece of straw. The opening must be as small as possible; the tube must reach nearly to the bottom of the vial, and the cork must be pushed in tight. Now, if you blow into the tube the air will be compressed in the upper part of the bottle and when your lips are taken away a little fountain will play from the tube for a short time.