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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
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