The sociable, or, One thousand and one home amusements : containing acting proverbs, dramatic charades, acting charades, or drawing-room pantomimes, musical burlesques, tableaux vivants, parlor games, games of action, forfeits, science in sport, and parlor magic, and a choice collection ofcurious mental and mechanical puzzles, &c., &c. : illustrated with nearly three hundred engravings and diagrams, the whole being a fund of never-endingentertainment (1858)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865 · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers · leaf 337
330 SCIENCE IK 6P0ET end to project about an incli, then holding thehook at a slight angle to strike the projecting end of the boomerang with a piece of stick or heavy penholder, as represented in No. 2, when it 'will fly across the room and return to your feet. ;^ THE BALANCED PAIL. To change the… … keep this apparatus properly in its situation, place another stick, E P G with the end resting against the bucket at the bottom, its middle, P, resting on the opposite top edge of the bucket, and its other extremity, E, against the first stick, 0 D, in which a notch must be cut to retain' it. The…
Amusements · Amateur theater · Charades
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