Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 133
ng the fold asshown in same figure by the letters A A. 112 PARLOR MAGIC. Turn the paper over and fold the otherhalf in precisely the same way, thus mak-ing the paper as shown in Fig. 3. Upon examining the edge AAA, twoopenings between the folds will be seen,whereas at the edge b b B, three… … MAGIC FAN. pinch the paper from end to end in plaitslike a ruff, three-eights of an inch in depth,so that when it is all pinched it will be insmall compass, as in the Fig. 5. The Magic Fan is then complete, andall that remains is to learn how to produceits variety of shape. It is said that asmany…
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