Later Day Tricks
A. Roterberg
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The Handkerchief Coloring Trick
READERS of "The Modern Wizard" will remember the trick of passing three white handkerchiefs successively through a paper tube, and thereby causing them to become red, orange and blue.
The simple trick that I am about to describe will serve admirably as an introduction to the former, more pretentious trick.
The conjurer shows three handkerchiefs, two white ones and a blue one which, if he desires, he may produce by magical means. Out of a small sheet of white paper he then forms a cylinder and proceeds to push the first white handkerchief into the lower end of the latter. Under cover of the white handkerchief he has picked up a fourth, blue handkerchief at the same time and secretly introduces this into the cylinder previous to the white one. The act of pushing the white handkerchief into the cylinder, forces the blue one out at the Upper end of the latter, the color of the white handkerchief being apparently changed during the transit.
Placing down the blue handkerchief, the performer takes the other one of, the same color and inserts it in the cylinder, causing it to become white by apparently pushing it through. The white handkerchiefs is then inserted and becomes blue. In pushing this, the last handkerchief through, the performer follows it up with his hand, gaining possession of and palming the white handkerchief in this act. The paper tube hereby becomes unrolled and is allowed to drop on the floor. The conjurer, who now has two blue and one white handkerchief, then proceeds with the rest of the trick as described in "The Modern Wizard."
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