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r ~. ~_.— f wsed t fing that IT hardly looked at you.” “TE loved it,” Maizie said, “When are we going to sing ‘em gain? You don't have to stay here much longer, do you?” “A week or two. I can begin walk- fing on crutches right away. They're coming to-morrow.” “I meant to come and see you be- fore. But I was afraid I was butting in,” Joe explained. “You weren't,” hoped you'd come.” “Well,” said Joe, “I'll come again Rut this house sort of gets my goat. it’s a palace, Maizie. I feel as if J was calling on the Queen of Pngland.” “It sort of gets me too,” Maizie ad- mitted, “but it won't be long now be- fore I'll be back home.” Joe rose. ‘‘Well,” he said, “I’ve got fo be going.” “Do come again, Joe,” she pleaded. “IT will’—he smiled the smile that had sold so many Wabash Twin-Twos -—"as s00n as I can get up the nerve.” Maizie almost cried when he had @one. Had Joe called out of anything but the kindness of heart? He-had faid she “looked good to him” as if he meant it. Perhaps the Poiret dress suited her aftér all. But she would have liked nothing better than to get out of it at that moment, She felt only half dressed in it. She felt she didn't belong in this house—palace, Joe had called it. That was it; she didn't belong. Maizie said, be | AIZTE had tea every after- noon in the library, Some- times Miss Van Blarcom was there and sometimes not. But Mr. Van Blarcom always came. Occasionally they talked; oc- casionally he read aloud; and occa- sionally he sat and gazed at her as if she were a picture. One afternoon he came over to her low chair and took her hand in his. “Maizie"—— he said, and his voice trembled, Maizie looked up at him with a sud- den frightened sense of her own help- lessness, “Maizie, you aren't going to leave nS, are you?” “IT must, soon," Maizie said. “I hadn't meant to tell you 80 soon. But I want you to stay here always. I want to marry you. I love you.” Maizie dropped her eyes. She did not know how to answer him. She could not refuse, and she could not accept—not possibty. “You don’t have to answer now,” he went on, “But if you don’t mind, 'm going to write your mother, Do you mind?” “No,” said Maizie very low. Miss Van Blarcom tucked Maizie in bed that night. “Horace has told me, my dear,” she said, “I’m so glad. I—Horace is the finest man in the world, my dear.” “] know,” said Maizie softly. She wanted to be left alone in the dark to think, ‘ The Mathematical Wizard. ERB is a mathematical trick by which you can make your au- dience believe that you are @ mind reader, or a real wizard, accord- ing to the manner in which you presept it. If you work alone, simply announce to your audience that by a feat of wizardry you will write down the answer to a problem in addition, én- volving five columns of five figures each, before any of the figures, save those in the first line, are set down, Then you select your victim and or- der him to set down a row of five single numbers, ending in any even number, Suppose, for down example, he sets 53764 You immediately write on a slip of paper 253762 That will be the correct sum of the figures to be added. To obtain it you deduct 2 from the last num- ber in the row and simply add it to the line, ahead of the first num- ber. Fold the slip and ask him to put it into his pocket without looking at it. Here's how the rest of the trick fs done: Ask him to set down another line of numbers under the first—it can end in either an odd or an even number. SupPose he sets down 29851 Then you set down under this line numbers that will in each case add up to nine with the number immediately above it. Your numbers would then read 70148 Ask him to set down another “line. Suppose it is 65327 Then you add the fifth line, adding up to nines as before, your line read ing 34672 Ask him to add up the five num- bers, which will—in fact must—total 253762 Then ask him %o look at the slip of paper in his pocket. It will have this answer written on it. You can make this trick even more mystifying if you work with a con federate, who, of course, must know how the trick is done, Announce that you will exhibit a real feat of mind reading and ask your confederate, casually, to help you. Ask to be blindfolded, and when that is done, in addition turn your back. Then instruct your helper to get one of the others to set down a line of five numbers, ending in an even number. When this is done, your helper, as though to be sure of the final number, reads them off, half aloud, saying, for example: “31756—That’s right, it ends even.” Quickly memorize it, then say, “Be careful—don't let me hear you any more,” and as if to insure silence move to a far corner of the YouR [ass 476936) “Eine 7OIDO Mine §9442/ “Eine 49576 a Le 59Z04 vue 007355 “ANS. £76950 room. Mentally deduct the 2 from the final 6 and add it ahead of the first number making 231754 Your helper then carries through the rest of the trick until the num- bers are added, when you merely ask that some one look at the answer, hold it to his forehead, and think of it. After a moment’s apparent thought you announce the answer: 231754 which, to their amazement, is cor- rect. To show that the trick, properly carried out, always “works,” a dif- ferent set of figures is set down in the accompanying illustration. OPERATION range them as in the illustra- tion. Reading across the coins are head, tail, head, tail, Reading down, however, they do not alternate The object of the puzzle is to remove fwo coins and exchange them for two ethers so that reading up and down @s well as across the heads and tails will alternate. The sec@ead il'nstration shows better ey asee need sixteen coins, Ar- than words can describe just how the thing is done. The third shows the feat aecomplished, The second and fourth coins of the first (vertical) row are removed and carried around to the other side of the square, These then push the three coins remaming in the horizontal rows into the positions required for the successful performance of the trick, a & NEXT SATURDAY’S COMPLETE STORY THE CAMPBELLS ARE COMING By MEREDITH NICHOLSON A Story Alive With the Spirit of Modern Youth—and in Which Youth Scores a Threefold Triumph - in Love, Business and Society. ORDER YOUR EVENING WORLD IN ADVANCE THE PRVENING WORLD'S FICTION SECTION, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 19232. a But when she was alone she could not think. She could only see one picture of herself after another. She wept for the picture of herself as she had been when she left Sharon—home. And weeping, she went to sleep. There was an incoherent letter from Mrs. Maynard two mornings later, a letter the sense of which was that Maizie was very lucky indeed, or else very unlucky. In any case she was lost to her mother. Lil and Belle called in the late afternoon, They looked at Maizie with a kin1 of awe, as if she were something fragile from another world, “My Gawd,” said Lil, “it's just like Cinderella!” “He certainly is a prince,” Belle agreed. “The coach and four will be a Rolls-Royce,” said Lil, Belle iooked at Maizie intently. “Can you ever get used to it?” she asked. Maizie only smiled. She had no gense that it was really true, It felt more like a dream which the cold real- ity of morning was sure to dispel. sits WEEKEND TRICKS“PUZZLES Clip, Out; Paste on Cardboard or Heavy Paper and’ Save With Others for Binding in a Bool: ein a lemned el heeded. But the next afternoon, when Joe Davis called, she was suddenly very wide awake. “Is it so?” he asked. “T guess it is,” she said. “Well,” said Joe, ‘I’m sorry. I've been thinking of you a lot, And— you'll laugh, but I'm going to tell you anyhow, There's a four-room flat for rent up jn Rogers Park that I pass every day or two, and every time I see it I think of you. It’s kind of funny, now—foue rooms when you're going to have forty.” Joe rose. “TI just wanted to get it off my chest,” he said. “I feel better now that you know just what my hopes had been.” He held out his hand to Maizie. “T wish it wasn’t true, but seeing it is— here's all the luck in the world, and all the happiness too!" “Thank you, Joe.” He turned quickly and walked toward the door. Maizie caught her breath. “Joe,” she cried. “Joe!” Joe came slowly back. said. With a quick sweep of his arms he held her fast—kissed her. “T—d-d-don’t w-want to m-m-marry him,” Maizie sobbed into his shoul- der. “I-—I—I want to go home.” Joe Davis stroked her hair very gently, ; “It's for you to say, honey,” he an- swered, She lifted her face then and asked: ‘Can we see that flat now, Joc?’ Which of course they could—and did. For after a fashion this must be somewhat more common in life than it is in fiction; that was the only way it could all come true for Mnaizie Maynard. “Joel” she. THE END. (Copyright. All Rights Reserved) Newspaper Service, New York. Viinted by arrangement with Metropolitan ‘A Coin and Tumbler Problem. STRIP of paper, about a foot long and an inch or go wide, a half dollar and a tumbler are passed for ex- amination, One end of the paper is placed on the edge of the tumbler. Carefully on the paper and the tum- bler’s edge at this point, the half dollar is balanced. The illustration (a) shows how the arrangement ought to appear, The problem is to remove the paper strip and leave the coin balanced on the edge of the glass. It does not require much knowledge of the sub- ject of inertia to know that if the paper is jerked ‘suddenly from un- der the coin, the coin will hold its Position. At any rate, your friends will try this with (to you) more or less amusing results. Here is the method by which it may be accomplished. Pick up the free end of the paper with the left hand. Hold it as nearly Straight as you can. Now with the right hand strike it a sharp blow at its centre. This will jerk the paper from under the coin without drag- ging the money off the edge. To make your friends’ failure to perform the trick more tmusing, the glass nay be nearly filled with water. A Trick With a Watch. AKT your watch in one hand T and a pencil in the other. Ask a friend to concentrate his mind upon any hour. Tell him that you will tap with your pencil on various numbers on the dial and that he is to count with each tap, beginning with the hour he decided upon, That is, if he thought of six, he would count six for the first tap, seven for the next, and so on. When his counting (which, of course, ig to be done silently) reaches twenty he ig to say “Stop.” When he tells you to stop show him the dial of the watch. The pencil will be pointing at the number of which he thought. There are various ways of doing the trick but the following is the easiest and most practical, It is im- portant that you do not permit the @pectator to see the face of the watch while you are tapping, as he might discover the means by which the trick is performed. Your first tap will be on 8 o'clock. The second will be on 7 o'clock, the next on 6 o'clock and so on—going backward around the dial. When he reaches twenty, your pencil will be pointing to the correct figure, This trick works in well with any of the “finding the thought of num- ber tricks” that are so well known. As the performer does not ask a single question, however, it is much More puszing. ré. Fiow TUMBLER, CoInNn, AND PAPER ARE ARRANGED EDGE OF RIGHT HAND STRIKES HERE Be careful, however, that the edge of the tumbler is kept dry. Always prace tise these tricks before attempting to perform them in public. None of them requires much skill, but it is well to be certain that you thoroughly understand just what you should do. > The Tumbler Mystery. OW for a rea! puzzler, Nearly fill a tumbler with water and place it on a table, not too far away from the edge. Invert on it another tumbler, That's all. How Tumsiers -— ARE ARRANGED ‘The problem is to drink the water without touching either tumbler with the hands. At the conclusion of the trick the tumblers must be left just the same as at the beginning, save for the absence of the water. Here is how it can be done but don’t be in a hurry to explain. Let them puzzle for while. It will do them good. Bend over. Lift the upper tumbler by holding its base firmly between your chin and the upper part of your chest, This is not difficult if you make gure that you have the tumbler held ge. curely before you lift. Now take the edge of the lower glass in your teeth, By using great care when you lean your head back and by taking your time, you can drain every drop. Replace the glass on the table and gently Jower the other on it. The triek is accomplished! + an