Wehman Bros.: New Book of Fun Magic and Mystery ©1905 Wehman Bros., NY Softcover, 16 pages plus ads

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Comments: "A big collection of parlor magic, tricks with cards, fortune telling, flirtations, funny readings, toasts, money making secrets, amusing experiments, jokes riddles conundrums, parlor amusements, puzzles and problems, etc.

Contents:

1 Funny Readings:
1 Rules for Love-Making: advice for women
1 A Dreadful Accident: silly story
1 Female Stratagem: how to describe a husband two ways
1 Office Rules: one-liners
1 Slight Hints: more one-liners
1 Boy Lost: silly tale
1 A Deceving Letter
1 Rules for Bummers
1 Husbands Commandments: for his wife
1 Wife's Commandments: for her husband

2 Fortune Telling
2 Curious Signs and Superstitions
2 Fortune Telling By the Grounds of a Tea or Coffee Cup
2 Fortune Telling With Dominoes
2 How to Judge Any One's Character By Their Finger-Nails
2 Augury By Dice
2 Character by the Month
2 Days of the Week
2 Old Arrah's Oriental Dream Book: advertisement

3 Parlor Magic
3 The Wonderful Hat: challenge
3 How to Put an Egg Into a Bottle: science experiment
3 An After-Dinner Treat: stunt
3 One Hundred and Twenty-Five Card Tricks: advertisement
3 How to Lift a Flint Glass With a Straw: stunt
3 The Conjuror's Joke: turning a glass of water upside down
3 How to Make a Coin Stick Against the Wall
3 A Self-Turning Cross: straw cross moves by itself
3 The Obedient Dime: betcha stunt
3 To Bring a Person Down Upon a Feather: a pun
3 An Amusing Trick for the Drawing Room: gag
3 To Make Water Rise From a Saucer Into a Glass: science Stunt
3 The Bottle Conjuror: gag
3 The Mysterious Addition: math trick
3 To Hold a Glassful of Water Upside Down Without Spilling
3 To Tell the Number any Person Thinks Of: math trick

4 A Laughable Game - The New Gypsy Fortune Teller: comedy answers to the following
4 What Is Your Great Aim In Life?
4 What Wil Be Your Next Occupation?
4 Where Will You First Meet Your Intended?
4 By Whom Are You Loved?
4 For What Will You Marry?

4 Parlor Games
4 A Game For Two
4 Order of the Whistle
4 The Feather Game
4 Russian Scandle
4 Magic Music
4 Jack's Alive
4 Hissing and Clapping

5 Puzzles and Problems
5 The Schoolmaster and His Scholars
5 How Many Geese Had She?
5 The Industrious Frog
5 The Knowing Shepherd
5 The Two Drovers
5 The Fox, Goose and Corn
5 The Apple Woman
5 How Can He Do It?
5 The Unlucky Hatter
5 Cats In a Room
5 What Was Their Ages?
5 How Many Did He Have?
5 The Snail and the May-Pole
5 How Can This Be?
5 The Gentlman and the Maids
5 How Old Was the Lady?
5 What Was the Father's Age?
5 How Many of Each Kind?
5 The Old Woman and Her Eggs
5 The Astonished Farmer
5 The Three Jealous Husbands
5 Advantageous Wager: betcha

6 Fortune-Telling Tablet As Used by the Egyptian Astrologers

7 Parlor Pastimes
7 Evening Amusement: ladies and gents pick a number and read the result
7 Go If You Can: stunt
7 To Tell the Numbers on a Pair of Dice: mathematical
7 A Person Having an Even Number of Coin in One Hand and an Odd Number in the Other, to Tell in Which Hand the Odd or Even Number Is
7 Magic Age Table: determine someone's age
7 To Find a Remainder: math
7 Forty-Five: math stunt
7 The Magic Squares: with matches
7 Is It Possible?: betcha
7 Double Meaning: betcha

8 Money-Making Secrets: formulas for ink, traciing paper, soap, etc.

9 Toasts: over 15 toasts for America, Friendship, The Man We Love, etc.

10 Tricks With Cards
10 The Slipped Card
10 The Nailed Card
10 The Recruit Trick
10 To Guess Several Cards Chosen at Random
10 To Tell the Card That May be Noted
10 The Triple Deal
10 The Three Jacks
10 Wizard's Pack of Cards: advertisement
10 To Ascertain the Number of Points on Three Unseen Cards
10 To Tell the Numbers on Two Unseen Cards
10 Cards Revealed by the Looking-Glass
10 Circle of Fourteen Cards
10 Of Two Rows of Cards, to Tell the One Which Has Been Touched
10 Card Named Without Being Seen
10 Tricks With Cards: advertisement

11 Amusing Experiments: over 30 quick science experiments

12 Flirtations: meanings of handling objects, such as "Twirling pencil in left hand - I wish to get rid of you"
12 Handkerchief Flirtation
12 Glove Flirtation
12 Fan Flirtation
12 Parasol Flirtation
12 Whip Flirtation
12 Pencil Flirtation
12 Hat Flirtation
12 Postage Stamp Flirtation
12 Cigar Flirtation
12 Eye Flirtation
12 Dining Table Signaling
12 Window Signaling
12 How to Kiss a Lady
12 Lover's Telegraph

13 Jokes, Conundrums and Riddles: 13 jokes and a ton of riddles

14 Jokes and Comic Poetry: over 4 dozen

15 Jokes and Witty Sayings: even more

16 Roaring Jokes and Epitaphs: and more