FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 23 November 1911, Page 2390

FAMILY FUN

An Immovable Card.—lf a friend laid an ordinary visiting card on the bare table and asked you to blow it right over, you would think he was asking you to do an absurdly easy thing, provided the card was not fastened to the table in any way. But it is not so easy after all, for unless you try in the right way you may blow till you are tired but the card will still be the same side up. Still more simple it looks when the two narrower ends of the card are bent over about a quarter of an inch, so that the turned-down edges are at right angles to the card, and the card is stood on these turned-down edges It seems as though a raised card must be easier to blow over than one laid flat, but it is not. The solution is very simple you must not blow on the card, but on the table at some distance from the card, and the trick is easily done. Try it on your friends, and see how many can do it in the first minute.