SIMPLE AND ENTERTAINING TRICKS
A TRICK WITH MATCHEġ
On the surface of a basin of water place three matches in the from of a triangle. Touch the water in the centre of the triangle with a sharp-pointed piece of soap, and at once the matches will dart away from the soap. Now place a plece of lump sugar in the water and the matches will immediately run back again,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1933.
A LETTER FROM PHYLNIA ::
CHRISTMAS BRINGS
Lie flat on your back on the rug, cross your arms, and keep them crossed, and then try to get on to your feet again without making use of your hands or your elbows. Dear Editor, Sounds simple, doesn't It ? Try
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I suppose you are in the middle of all your preparations for the Christmas Number, but I hope you have time to read my letter: You are lucky to have a Christmas at the office in November and one
at home in December. Do you have to give two lots of presents, or only one?
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The Marriage of Maggot Ple
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On the other side of the pond be found Mr. Kingfisher sitting in a stump gazing into the water and bobbing up and down on his legs just like an Exchange Broker's clerk standing outside a Bank-in. cold weather, "Oh, Mr. King- fisher," said Jack, “will you please get me half a water chestnut?"
"Go away" said Mr. Kingfisher, "do you take me for a duck or a swan? I don't want any beastly
-chestnuts-nasty Hard curly things like a buffalo's horns--I'm looking for small fish-and there goes another one"; and with, those words he suddenly darted off his perch, took a lighting' stab at the surface of the water and back with a fish in his beak.
Came
Would it be better, do you think. if I gave Sammy something to keep A book wouldn't him indoors keep him in long enough, would it? ад advertisement for I saw in pianolas that it is advisable to train boys to have their interests at home by buying planolas and But then I suppose he things. would have to keep it at qui place because I would have to sec him sometimes, and Dad might think it a nuisance. Of course. Il couldn't afford to buy a planola: but I was thinking of something like a ping pong set. On second Sammy thoughts I don't think I will give ed the Ash and started bobbing up
him anything to encourage him to be a home bird, as the saying is, because Mum says that it's a nuisance to have a man about 'the place all the time and I must look last, Christmas I made a mistake into the future, mustn't I deal and addressed a hottie of blackEditor? (Don't let the printer see" narcissus to Uncle Bob. He wash frightfully annoyed. I suppose.. be- cause he had no use for it; you
Christmas presents have worrying me..
You see I have to give to Mum and Dad and the lady
grandson next door's little
and some of my cousins and again of 'course, there's Sammy. the biggest worry of the lot: you see I can always fall back on cigars for Dad and soap for Mur and scent for my cousins, though 1 have to be careful in this because
sce he's a bachelor and had no, wife to give it to.
this bit because Sammy reads
lot, and it might make him self-
conscious.}
I must ask. my girl friend, Sue, what she thinks about it: Sue and Last Christmas I gave Sammy a silver shaving set. I bought it at I are going to dress up as carollers sing outside houses this a shop near "where we live. It and took me a long time to save up Christmas Eve, if our Mums wil for it, so I used to go and look atlet us. We read about some vil it in the shop window up the lage children in England who went street. Dad said it would be tar- out into the snow and sang to nished long before I had enough give the people good cheer. saved to buy it so I went in and explained this to the shopkeeper and he used to take it cut of the window ever so often and clean it for me with Jeweller's rouge. suppose Jewellers go in for make up because they do a lot of trade with theatricals.
I
"How's that for quick work? " he chuckled proudly as he swallow-
and down again as if he were try- tummy.. ing to shake it down into his
"Marvellous," said Jack Sparrow, "but I bet you couldn't bring up half a water-chestnuti
"Don't want to." said Mr. King-“İ Asher surlily, "and what's more if you stand round here, frightening
the fish I'll take you under the water and drown you like a rát.”
SA
This terrible threat frightened Jack for a minute but it also gave him a brilliant inspiration;" "Oh, Mr. Kingfisher," he said, "if you'll
a water-chestnut- give me half the empty shell, is all I want I'll show you a beautiful deserted It rar
ole in the bank which will was in a book, of course, but we
all the trouble of digging ur Spring nest." This in- thought it would be quite easy to ou do, too, especially as there is no terested Mr. Kingfisher so much that the bargain was soon made snow to combat...
and within a few minutes Jack had flown off with the hard curly shell of the water-chestnut: and after a few minutes more with his friend Maggot "he dashed ox to warn the bride and bridesmaids and to tell Parson Crow that the wedding would take place almost.
Tips for Waits.
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he had come back from a night call. He was so furious that he stamped up and down his room.
We were once staying with Do you think I ought to give friend who was a doctor and the Sammy cigarettes for Christmas orcarollers woke him up just when would it encouragé him in a bad habit? Still, I don't think that smoking is such a bad "habit at Chewing gum. Smoking is at least picturesque, but there's nothing picturesque about chewing gum, though a cow looks rather well: but then, it chews cud.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
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but he must have relented, my
dear, because he went out and gave them a dollar. I never knew before that musicians took tips.
Shall we have to take them when we go out singing?' I think" I would rather do it for nothing, and anyway a dollar isn't much.
What do you think is a suitable present for Sammy.to give me? Do you think I ought to consult him about it? What I really want is a gold wrist watchs but isn't there á proverb or something that says a girl should not take jewelry from a man?-but I suppose Sammy's different. Anyway Sue's boy friend gave her a watch and she hasn't had any very bad luck yet, excepting that she lost the watch
Has your wife made her pud- dings yet? Mum has made six in
the copper. I offered to make them for her but after the pie in- cident Mum thought she had bet- ter make them herself. How shall I ever learn to cook, dear Editor, if I never have any practices? Even now Sammy boasts about his mother's cooking, do you think my sons will ever boast about mine to their wives?
Don't forget to write and give me your advice, I appreciate it so much, although you have never given me any.
Well, my dear, I hope you have a very happy Christmas. I will hang up my stocking. Someone might put something in. You know my address, don't you?
Yours Faithfully,
PHYLNIA.
THE MAGNETIC COPPER
The performer borrows a new or nearly new copper from a member of the party. After passing it round for Inspection, he pretends to magnétise It by holding it near his forhead for a few moments while he utters the following Incantation :-"
By my wand. I conjure thee,
Ena dena dina dee, Copper, Copper, stick to me. Then he presses it closely to his forehead, using firm pressure for a few seconds, Owing to suction, it will adhere for some time if the performer does not wrinkle his brow.
A TRICK WITH DOMINOES A set of dominoes is laid on the table, and the audience is asked to arrange them as for a game. The performer writes two numbers: on a slip of paper, and when the game is completed those numbers prove to be the end numbers of the line of dominoes. The trick is, accomplished by secretly remov- ing one domino (not a double number) from the set before the "game" is" started. The number
at once..
bush next to the Gingko tree to see how his plan would work, And he didn't have to walt long.
Then he went and hid behind a
While all this was going on the fight among the invading Magples had been getting worse; every time one of the birds got on to the nest to claim it, he was knock- ed off by another Magpie and the aght started all over again; Mr. Scops Owl had been asked to set- tle the quarrel and was standing by to put his oficial seal on the nest as soon as any bird had made good his claim. Constable Wood- pecker was also doing his best, raising and lowering himself from the knees and saying "You can't do this kind of thing 'ere, you know," but everybody was too busy Aghting to take any notice.
Then suddenly B remarkable thing happened. Somebody yelled qut, "Ware Falcon!" and there sure enough came sailing over the trees, a bird with a spotted breast and a big hooked bill! The cry didn't have to be repeated I can tell you. Mr. Scops Owl was so scared that he hid in behind the nest, while all the fighting Magpies screamed and cleared out as fast as their wings could carry them. Constable Woodpecker murmured something about "reporting for duty at the Station" and alld out of slight through the trees. Then as the terrible Faicon" settled on the nest Mr. Scops Owl dropped his official seal in fright and left the Falcon in undisputed posses- sion.
Then it was that an even more remarkable thing happened. The Falcon suddenly dropped down to the bush where Jack Sparrow was hiding and instead of starting to eat him up began bellowing in a smothered voice, "Take dis taig of by doze-I can't breadthe-oh take id off quig." And little Jack Sparrow was laughing so much it was some minutes before he man- aged to pull the water-chestnut shell off his friend Maggot's beak. Then, while Jack spluttered and laughed they washed the mud- spots off Maggat's breast-and few for all they were worth to find Parson, Crow; and found him just as Maggie and the six Miss Azure- Wings were timidly approaching the wedding-free...
So Pako Mynah struck up "Here comes the Bird" while Maggot and bls tride marched up to the par- son; and when he said, "Have you! got a nest?"- Maggot boldly ans wered, "I'll tell the pop-eyed world I have. So Parson Crow' said "Bless you my children-Hop off" and they hopped off and lived happily ever afterwards.
And that night at the "Mynah's, Arms old Pako handed out the Adam's Treble Xin extra big mnga, and everybody felt so hapWY they didn't even refer to Mr. Shrike's legs; and they all agreed that Maggot Pie was a very brave young bird to have gone out and fought the Falcon all alone for the nest. And little Jack Sparrow
mo-
of this domino will be the end was so tired with Jaughing that numbers when the game is com- he fell fast asleep in the gutter pleted. The performer has merely to write those numbers on the slip of paper and quietly replace the extre domino with the others after the line has been broken up.
without any supper: but h ther said he was talking in hla sleep and all she could understand was that he kept saying somethlig about
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