Later Day Tricks
A. Roterberg
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Paper Shaving Changed Into Bon Bons
AN effective trick, which may be combined with the experiment just described, consists, as the title indicates, of changing paper shavings into candy.
The performer exhibits an ordinary sheet of newspaper, forming it into a cone and requesting one of the company to mark it. He then proceeds to fill the marked cone with colored shavings from a box containing a quantity of them. After showing once more that the cone is the marked one and that it is really filled with shavings, the performer closes it, waves his wand over it and holding it above a plate, breaks it open, when to every one's surprise, instead of the paper shavings, a shower of bonbons is seen to drop on the plate, which of course is passed to the ladies with the request to help themselves.
This pretty parlor trick can be performed by any one without much previous preparation. All that is needed is a cardboard box filled with paper shavings under which is hidden a closed cone made of newspaper and filled with candy. In forming the other cone in presence of the spectators, the conjurer takes care to make it just a shade larger than the concealed cone. He then pretends to fill the empty cone with paper shavings, but really, under cover of the box, loads the filled cone into the empty one and places a handful od the shavings on top. After the mark on the outside cone has been recognized, the performer closes the latter and breaking both cones allows the bonbons to fall on the plate. The cone or rather cones are crumpled up and carelessly thrown aside.
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