How to behave and how to amuse. A handy manual of etiquette and parlor games (1895)
Sandison, George Henry, 1850- comp · New York, The Christian Herald · leaf 100
ncii. on its Point. Dig the blade of a half open penknife into apencil, a little above the point, and to open orclose the blade, little by little, till you find thatthe balance is obtained. The combination of pen-cil and penknife thus placing itself in equilibriois an illustration of a familiar law… … By varying the degree of opening of the pen-knife, you impart corresponding degrees of in-clination to the pencil. When the centre of io6 HOW TO AMUSK. gravity of the two combined falls in the same lineas the axis of the pencil, the latter v/ill assume aperpendicular position. My Grandi^athkrS…
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