FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 16 January 1913, Page 62

FAMILY FUN

Trick with a Plate.—Here is a way to balance a china plate on the point of a needle, and even to cause it to spin steadily upon this delicate support: Cut two corks down the middle, and in the ends of the four halves thus obtained insert forks, inclined to the smooth sides of the corks at a little less than right angles. Place these four corks around the rim of the plate at equal distances from one another, and see that the teeth of the forks are in.contact with the rim, to prevent them from swaying. With a little care this plate can now be balanced on the’point of a needle whose eye has been buried in the cork of an upright bottle. By giving it a gentle rotary motion the plate may be made to spin around, which it will do for quite a long time. ■ \t'<.