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HOME FUN PREFATORY NOTE CONTENTS CHAPTER I AMATEUR THEATRICALS
Stage Construction and Home-made Scenery The Drop Curtain Home-made Scenery How to Make the “Flats” Papering Making a Portable Porch A Portable Fireplace A Movable Counter or Sideboard A Back-Cloth
CHAPTER II MYSTERIES OF MAKE-UP
The Foundation Lining “Juvenile” Make-up “Middle-Age” Make-up “Old-Age” Make-up Beards and Mustaches The Removal of Make-up
CHAPTER III THE QUICK-CHANGE ARTIST
How It’s Done An Inexpensive “Stock in Trade” The Dresser
CHAPTER IV CHARACTER IMPERSONATIONS
Talent v. Material Aids Knowledge from Nature Speaking Impersonations Temperament Character and Circumstance
CHAPTER V THE UNIVERSAL HAT
Marvels of Chapeaugraphy Popular Characters
CHAPTER VI NIGGER MINSTRELSY
The Comical End-men Minstrels’ “Make-up” From Failure to Success Coon Songs Songs and “Gags” One-Act Dramas
CHAPTER VII SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BLACK
For “Nigger Minstrels” Introducing Jokes Stump Speeches Music for Minstrelsy
CHAPTER VIII TABLEAUX VIVANTS
True-to-Life Representations Staging Penelope and Ulysses Stage “Props”
CHAPTER IX CHARADES
An Old Favorite for Indoor Parties An “Artificial Window” “A Seaside Scene” A Portable Tent Outfit for Highwayman A Policeman’s Helmet A Chinaman’s Head Covering Advertisement Charades Baronetcy [BARON-ATE(ET)-CY(SEA).]
First Syllable. BARON. Second Syllable. ATE-(ET). Third Syllable. SEA-(CY). Baronetcy
Beanstalk
First Syllable. BEAN. Second Syllable. STALK. BEANSTALK
CHAPTER X THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MUSICAL SKETCH
The “All in All” An Artist—and a Gentleman Music and Words
CHAPTER XI VAMPING SIMPLIFIED
An Accompanist in an Hour Vamping Chords and their Relative Changes
CHAPTER XII AN EVENING AT THE PHONOGRAPH
A Concert at Home Humorous Songs General Arrangements
CHAPTER XIII MUSICAL GLASSES
A Great Inventor’s Hopes Little Water = Low Note Half-Notes
CHAPTER XIV HAND-BELL RINGING
A Sweet-lipped Friend Bell-ringing Companies “Flourishing”
CHAPTER XV THE ART OF DRAWING-ROOM SINGING
Correct Breathing and Voice Production Dainty Modern Songs The Value of a Good Accompanist Why Singers Often Fail
CHAPTER XVI DRAWING-ROOM RECITALS
The Keynote of Success The Speaking Register Appropriate Gesture
CHAPTER XVII THE ART OF WHISTLING
Methods of a Famous Siffleur Breathing and Tone Suitable Solos
CHAPTER XVIII BUNKUM ENTERTAINMENTS
The Cuckoo of Society Sure of Success Thought-Reading Extraordinary Fake Ventriloquism The Three Old Maids Bunkum Lectures The Sharp(?)-Shooter The Ghost
CHAPTER XIX VENTRILOQUISM IN A MONTH
A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Valentine Vox All Born Ventriloquists The Initial Stages Breathing Exercises Automaton—or Man? Speaking with Still Lips Two Kinds of Ventriloquism The Old Woman’s Voice Ventriloquial Figures Ventriloquial Figure Manipulation Voice for “Little Boy” The “Distant” Voices “Level” Sounds The “Floor” Voice Ventriloquial Imitations A Dog Fight The Lion and the Cow The Complete Entertainment
CHAPTER XX CONJURING FOR ALL
Magic Memorized The Dye-Works The Dissolving Coin The Watch and Target
CHAPTER XXI SOME KNOTTY POINTS
Secrets of Handkerchief Manipulation The One Hand Knot The Wrist Knot The Double Bow The Instantaneous Knots A Flick Knot The Disappearing Knot
CHAPTER XXII BLACK STAGE MYSTERIES
A Wily Worker of Wonders The Essential Assistant The Floating Barrel The Vanishing Man
CHAPTER XXIII CONCERNING GHOSTS
Mirror Frauds Unseeing and Disbelieving A Paris Illusion The Sea Nymph
CHAPTER XXIV SOME STAGE ILLUSIONS
For Home Presentation The Magic Cupboard The Mandarin’s Head “The Head of Mary Queen of Scots” When Three are a Crowd The Floating Lady Houdin’s Mesmerism The Indian Basket The Disappearing Princess
CHAPTER XXV THE ROOM OF MYSTERY
How to Make a Haunted House A Deceitful Member
CHAPTER XXVI MECHANICAL SECOND-SIGHT
Approaching the Supernatural Clothes and Materials
CHAPTER XXVII PAPERGRAPHY
How an Excellent Entertainment may be Given with a Sheet of Paper
CHAPTER XXVIII JUGGLING
How to Master the Principles of the Art 1. The Vertical Fall 2. Inside and Outside Falls 3. The Parallel Fall 4. Falls from Right to Left 5. The Horizontal Pass 6. The Double Vertical Fall 7. The Double Inside Fall 8. The Triple Pass 9. The Triple Over Pass 10. The Shower 11. The Triple Shower 12. The Double Over Fountain
CHAPTER XXIX PLATE-SPINNING AND WALTZING
An Exciting Entertainment Prepared Plates Further Feats Balancing Plate Waltzing
CHAPTER XXX THE TIGHT-ROPE
Trick Balancing The Balancing Pole The “Forward Walk”
CHAPTER XXXI CLOG DANCING
A Novel Entertainment The First Step Single and Double Shuffles
Variation No. 1. Variation No. 2. Variation No. 3. Variation No. 4. Variation No. 5.
Variations of Double Shuffle The Slide
CHAPTER XXXII SHADOW SHOWS
Hand Shadows How to Make the Pictures Figure Shadows The Disappearing Man Puppet Shadow Shows Manipulating the Puppets The Plumber
CHAPTER XXXIII LIGHTNING CARTOONS AND “FAKE” SKETCHING
A Novel Form of Drawing-Room Entertainment Simultaneous Drawing A Figured Face Smoke Pictures Topsy-Turveydom Shadow Drawings
CHAPTER XXXIV FRICTIONAL FUN
Some Amusing Electrical Experiments[1] Leyden Jars Gold Leaf Electroscope Electrophorus Discharger
CHAPTER XXXV SOME ELECTRICAL EFFECTS
The Magic of Mystery
CHAPTER XXXVI SAFE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS
Amusing Tricks with Simple Apparatus Piercing a Coin with a Needle A Match Trick The Tricolor Glass Changing Water into Wine The Eruption of Vesuvius A Peculiar Candlestick Making a Paper Fish Swim Floating Pins and Needles Joined by Air Glass Raising Extraordinary A Novel Glass Emptier A Striking Siphon Experiment An Electric Fountain The Bottle Cannon
CHAPTER XXXVII SAFE CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS
Twentieth-Century “Black Art” Experiments with Chlorine
CHAPTER XXXVIII ODD EXPERIMENTS
To While Away Winter Hours Life Partners A Light Experiment The Pyrometer The Broken Bottle Compressed Air
CHAPTER XXXIX MORE EXPERIMENTS TIPS AND DODGES FOR THE WINTER EVENINGS
The Refractory Cork The Flying Coin A Cigarette-smoking Lamp-glass Water Swinging A Novel Mirror A Disappearing Coin Electrified Paper Electrified Balloons Exploding Flour The Apparently Impossible Making Coal Gas Experiments with Carbonic Acid Gas
CHAPTER XL PHOTO PASTIMES
Camera Knights’ Experiments Experiment A.—A Fireside Photo Experiments B.—“Photo-Chemical” Experiment C.—Blue Print Paper Experiment D.—To Show the Constituents of White Light Experiment E.—One Person in Two Places—and Spiritualism Spirit Photography Novel Results
CHAPTER XLI HOW TO MAKE AND WORK MARIONETTES
Constructing the Stage A Movable Curtain Interior Decoration Home-made Figures Working the Puppets Working
CHAPTER XLII LIVING MARIONETTES
A Good “One Man” Show Comical Effects
CHAPTER XLIII A HOME CIRCUS
A New Form of Entertainment Other Decorations How is it Done? The Indian Sack Trick Trick Juggling
CHAPTER XLIV HOW TO MAKE AND WORK A PEEP-SHOW
An Old Form of Entertainment Revived
CHAPTER XLV THE “MECHANICAL” PEEP-SHOW
Secrets of Lightning Transformations
CHAPTER XLVI HOW TO MAKE AND WORK A PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW
His Highness of the Hump Packing Up the Show The Puppets Working the Figures The Ghost
CHAPTER XLVII DISSOLVING VIEWS
Without a Magic Lantern Exhibiting
CHAPTER XLVIII INDOOR FIREWORKS
Without the Use of Explosives The Firework Boxers
CHAPTER XLIX HOW TO MAKE A TELEPHONE
For Use at Home Making Mouthpieces The Microphone
CHAPTER L TELEGRAPHY AT HOME
A Galvanometer Adapted Testing Message Transmitting Morse Alphabet Message
CHAPTER LI ELEMENTARY HYPNOTISM
The Mysteries and Marvels of “Under-Sleep” Weak-willed Subjects not Essential Auto-Suggestion or Self-Hypnosis
CHAPTER LII THE POWERS AND MYSTERIES OF CLAIRVOYANCE
Marvels of the “Sixth” Sense Keys to Character Crystal Gazing Simple Manifestations Best The Eternal Question
CHAPTER LIII TABLE-TURNING
Fun for an Impromptu Party The Presence of an “Unbeliever”
CHAPTER LIV PALMISTRY
Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future The Phalanges Signs—and Wonders! Guileless and Good
CHAPTER LV PHRENOLOGY
The Estate “Under the Hat” Bald-Pated Friends Phrenologist—and Man! The Humorous Side of Phrenology
CHAPTER LVI TELLING FORTUNES BY CARDS, DICE, DOMINOES, ETC.
What the Future has in Store Clubs Spades Hearts Diamonds A Throw of the Dice Fortune-Telling by Dominoes Figured Futurity Divinations by Tarocs Process of Divination
CHAPTER LVII GRAPHOLOGY
Character from Handwriting The Principal Letters Misleading Signs
CHAPTER LVIII A SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN’S PARTY
A Word to Grown-Ups Tea Time
CHAPTER LIX PARLOR GAMES
For Christmas Parties The Clothes-pin Game Proverbs The Game of Shadows Gardeners Tidings The Lawyer
An Example
Cabbages The Lover’s Coming Telegrams The Fan Fight Panama Canal The Longest Line Musical Buff Magic Hieroglyphics The Auction Game The Whistle The Blind Brothers The Poets’ Corner Jack’s Going Strong Name Divinations Wizard Photography The Missing Ring Apples and Nuts Amiable Dog
CHAPTER LX PARLOR TRICKS AND PUZZLES
Tangrams A Scissor Trick Blowing through a Bottle A Safe Bet Do not touch the Coin Quis Separabit? Stick no Bills A Mighty Voice A Genuine Match The Dying Fish New-laid Eggs A Will-power Test The Magic Repeater The Obliging Banana The Smoker’s Fancy The Mysterious Bands Sold Again Simple Subtraction A Tricky String Puzzle A Sure Eye “That is the Man” Needle-Threading Extraordinary The Magician’s Bite A Trick in the Sunshine Light a Cigarette Without Matches Another String Trick Try This! A Steady Hand
CHAPTER LXI “HOW WOULD YOU——?”
Puzzles That Please
1. The Traveling Checker 2. Another Checker Puzzle 3. Joining the Rings 4. The Ten Rows 5. The Cabalistic Sign 6. The Dangerous Anarchists 7. Catching the Donkey 8. Like to Like 9. The Broken Chain 10. The Diamond Cross 11. The Quarrelsome Railways 12. Another Railway Problem 13. The Miter
Solutions
1. The Traveling Checker 2. Another Checker Puzzle 3. The Rings Joined 4. The Ten Rows 5. The Cabalistic Sign 6. The Dangerous Anarchists 7. Catching the Donkey 8. Like to Like 9. The Broken Chain 10. The Diamond Cross 11. The Quarrelsome Railways 12. The Other Railway Problem 13. The Miter
CHAPTER LXII SOME OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
When Seeing Eyes are Blind Hills that Don’t Rise The Stars don’t Twinkle The Dwarf, the Man, and the Giant Color Illusions
CHAPTER LXIII CIPHERS AND CRYPTOGRAMS
Successful Systems of Secret Writing Russian Nihilist Code The Sphinx
CHAPTER LXIV SECRET SIGNS
Friend from Foe “Shakes” and “Passes” Pass-Words The “Patteran”
CHAPTER LXV GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS FOR THE BLIND
The Wonderful Sense of Touch Cards Checkers Halma Dominoes Chess Round Games
INDEX Transcriber’s Notes
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