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 379
do is to take a half-dime and pri- vately place a piece of soft wax on one side of it; then spread a pocket hand- kerchief upon a table, and taking up the coin, show it to your audience — being very careful not to expose the side that has the wax on it; then place it in the Fig. No. 1. . centre of… … ,^ \ ■ ^ Fig. No. 2. when you have done this, fold over successively the corners marked B, C, and D, and tbo handkerchief will assume the shape of Kg. No. 2.
Amusements · Amateur theater · Charades
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