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relaxation for young people, which has many a time created amusement. 

 The experiment consists in cutting out in paper or cardboard certain 

 portions of a face or figure, as per the illustration herewith. Fig. 167 gives 

 the card as cut with the scissors, and the two subsequent faces are the result 



Fig. 1 68. Hand-shadows on the wall. 



ot the same held at a less or greater distance from a screen. The illustra- 

 tions (fig. 1 6 8) will assist those who wish to amuse children by making 

 rabbits, etc., on the wall. The shadows will be seen perfectly thrown 

 if the hands be carefully fixed near a good light. 



We are all so familiar with the " Magic Lantern," and the apparatus 



