FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 9 May 1912, Page 62

FAMILY FUN

■ ■ Marvellous Will-Power— simple and mystifying. • card trick is the will-power trick. You let anyone shuffle the cards, then take them into your own hand and ask another person to cut them. Now throw themon the table, but as you do so get. a glimpse of the bottom card, which is, we will say, the nine of hearts. . Scatter the cards a little, but carefully note the position of the mine of hearts. Now. say that you have the power to will that a person shall, unknown to himself, select the card you want. You' call for the nine of ’hearts. Someone hands you a card without looking at its face. ‘ Thank' you/ you say. ‘ Quite, right—nine .of hearts.’ Really, however, it is the jack of spades so you now, ask for the jack of spades, and get,, let us .say, seven of diamonds. You then you will pick a card from the table yourself— the seven of diamonds. You take the card, however, which you know to be the nine of hearts. You then show the three . cards, which' are, .of course, the three you named; so that it appears that you actually have made your spectators pick out the ‘cards you wanted. t -* v *