New games and amusements for young and old alike (1905) (14765556741)

Identifier: newgamesamusemen00nuge (find matches)
Title: New games and amusements for young and old alike
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Nugent, Meredith Smedley, Victor J
Subjects: Amusements
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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peed. As the ring progresses the filmwill belly out; and after this has attained a goodlysize, deftly turn the ring over at right angles,without once stopping the sweeping movementof your arm, and a bubble will fall from the ring,just as is shown in the picture on page 62. Any-body can perform this trick after a little practice.Wire rings very much larger than the onereferred to may be used after you have becomean expert at this performance. The five-inchring, though, is a very good size for beginners. KITTENS INSIDE OF A SOAP BUBBLE A large shallow pan, nine feet in circumference,was filled with solution to the depth of twoinches. After this a childs wooden hoop, ofslightly less circumference than the pan, waslowered into the solution. Then in the centreof the pan a block of wood was placed, and ontop of this the kittens. As soon as the kittenswere in position, Phil grasped the hoop with hiswet fingers and lifted it with fair quickness,horizontally, high over the animals heads, and62
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LARGE BUBBLES THROWN FROM A SOAPEDWIRE RING THE SOAP-BUBBLERS RECEPTION then suddenly turned it to a perpendicularposition, when the bubble dropped, as it were,from the hoop. Before beginning this trickPhil bound the hoop around its entire circum-ference with strips of muslin so that not aparticle of the wood could be seen. Then hethoroughly soaped this with a large cake of soap. TWO BUBBLES FROM SAME FILM GOING IN OPPO-SITE DIRECTIONS A hoop bound with muslin was covered acrosswith a film and then slowly revolved betweenthe finger tips of both hands, as shown in picturepage 56. **THE GIANT LETTER s A wire ring bound with strips of muslin wasdipped into the solution, and when covered witha film was swished through the air, as illustratedin the picture on page 56. LARGE BUBBLE ENVELOPED WITHIN A LARGER ONE Phil used two wire rings bound with strips ofmuslin for this trick, one much larger than theother. He covered both with a film; then, hold-ing a ring in each hand, he first tossed a