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LIVING SHADOWS

In order to make these, you must stand in the corner of the room, near a mirror.  Let some one hold a light behind you, so that the shadow of your head and shoulders will be thrown upon the wall, and also that the reflected light from the mirror will fall at exactly the same spot as the shadow of your head.

If the mirror is now covered with a piece of thick paper, from which two eyes, a nose, and a mouth are cut out, the effect shown in the drawing will be produced.  In order to make the shadow still more lifelike, cut out two pieces of paper, fasten one over the mirror, and move the other over it.  In this way the eyes and mouth of the shadow may be made to move.

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TO GUESS THE TWO ENDS OF A LINE OF DOMINOES

For this trick a whole set of dominoes is required, the performer taking care to hide one of the set, not a double, in his pocket.  The remaining dominoes should be shuffled, and placed according to the ordinary rules of domino games, and the performer undertakes to tell, without seeing them, the two numbers forming the extremes of the line, set during his absence from the room.  The numbers on the extreme ends of the domino line will be exactly the same as the numbers on the domino which the performer has in his pocket.  If he is asked to repeat the trick, he should be sure to change the hidden domino, or he may chance to be found out.

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TO TELL THE AGE OF ANY PERSON

Prepare a set of cards by making a copy of the tables given here.  Hand them to the person whose age you wish to ascertain, and ask him to name the cards on which his age appears.

If you then add together the first number on each of the cards he names, the total will be the age required.

No. 1 Card No. 2 Card No. 3 Card No. 4 Card No. 5 Card No. 6 Card
   1 29 2 30 4 30 8 28 16 28 32 44
   3 31 3 31 5 31 9 29 17 29 33 45
   5 33 6 34 6 36 10 30 18 30 34 46
   7 35 7 35 7 37 11 31 19 31 35 47
   9 37 10 38 12 38 12 40 20 48 36 48
  11 39 11 39 13 39 13 41 21 49 37 49
  13 41 14 42 14 44 14 42 22 50 38 50
  15 43 15 43 15 45 15 43 23 51 39 51
  17 45 18 46 20 46 24 44 24 52 40 52
  19 47 19 47 21 47 25 45 25 53 41 53
  21 49 22 50 22 52 26 46 26 54 42 54
  23 51 23 51 23 53 27 47 27 55 43 55
  25 53 26 54 28 54
  27 55 27 55 29 55