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  2. Tricks With Cards.

    On the ace of spades fix, by the use of soap or some similar substance, a heart coloured red, and on the ace of hearts a spade coloured black, in such a manner that they will easily slip off. ...

    Article : 485 words
  3. Dame Durden's Post Office.

    Everyone under 18 is invited to write letters here. The best will be published, and perhaps win a prize, and even the worst will be rend with interest. Writers may choose any member of the Court they please to ...

    Article : 2,446 words
  4. HALF-HOUR

    A square piece of paper is required for this Begin by creasing it as shown in figure 1. Fold it in four as in figure 2, which shows the corners placed together as in making a paper dart. Turn ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 230 words
  5. A Trick with Dominoes.

    This is a simple trick that appears very puzzling to an onlooker. A whole set of dominoes is needed, and from the set one domino is withdrawn, which is not a double. The ...

    Article : 118 words
  6. Solution of the Pen Puzzle

    A correspondent says most people will probably be hard to convince that a yearly increase of £10 in their salary is not equal in value to a halfyearly increase of £5, and perhaps it may be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 327 words
  7. An Encore Recitation.

    They were lunching one day In a handsome cafe. And she happened to say, As she noticed the way ...

    Article : 173 words
  8. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    R. C.—"Amidst the Crowd," not good enough. Beginning each line with a capital letter does not make poetry. Ask someone to explain rhyme and metre and such things to you. ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. Puzzle.

    Darken twenty-three of the circles contained in the above frame in such a way that there will be eleven rows of five darkened circles in a straight line, although the spaces thus occupied ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 43 words
  10. No Animal Like It.

    In the Berlin Zoological Garden there is now an animal which is wholly unlike any other in the world. It is the offspring of a female puma from the Argentine Republic, and of a male leopard ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. The Revival of Old Jewellery.

    Young women whose mothers own sets of oldfashioned cameo jewellery may rejoice, for a revival of its popularity is heralded. Large cameo brooches are used as belt clasps, or to confine a ...

    Article : 134 words
  12. The Discarded Kid Glove.

    Every woman acquires, sooner or later, a number of worn gloves of every description, from evening to walking gloves, and she wonders, if she thinks about it at all, what they are good ...

    Article : 177 words
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