PREFATORY NOTE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I AMATEUR THEATRICALS Stage Construction and Home-made Scenery
CHAPTER II MYSTERIES OF MAKE-UP The Foundation
CHAPTER III THE QUICK-CHANGE ARTIST How It's Done
CHAPTER IV CHARACTER IMPERSONATIONS Talent v. Material Aids
CHAPTER V THE UNIVERSAL HAT Marvels of Chapeaugraphy
CHAPTER VI NIGGER MINSTRELSY The Comical End-men
CHAPTER VII SOME SUGGESTIONS IN BLACK For "Nigger Minstrels"
CHAPTER VIII TABLEAUX VIVANTS True-to-Life Representations
CHAPTER IX CHARADES An Old Favorite for Indoor Parties
CHAPTER X THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MUSICAL SKETCH
CHAPTER XI VAMPING SIMPLIFIED An Accompanist in an Hour
CHAPTER XII AN EVENING AT THE PHONOGRAPH A Concert at Home
CHAPTER XIII MUSICAL GLASSES A Great Inventor's Hopes
CHAPTER XIV HAND-BELL RINGING A Sweet-lipped Friend
CHAPTER XV THE ART OF DRAWING-ROOM SINGING Correct Breathing and Voice Production
CHAPTER XVI DRAWING-ROOM RECITALS The Keynote of Success
CHAPTER XVII THE ART OF WHISTLING Methods of a Famous Siffleur
CHAPTER XVIII BUNKUM ENTERTAINMENTS The Cuckoo of Society
CHAPTER XIX VENTRILOQUISM IN A MONTH A Practical and Comprehensive Guide to the Art of Valentine Vox
CHAPTER XX CONJURING FOR ALL Magic Memorized
CHAPTER XXI SOME KNOTTY POINTS Secrets of Handkerchief Manipulation
CHAPTER XXII BLACK STAGE MYSTERIES A Wily Worker of Wonders
CHAPTER XXIII CONCERNING GHOSTS Mirror Frauds
CHAPTER XXIV SOME STAGE ILLUSIONS For Home Presentation
CHAPTER XXV THE ROOM OF MYSTERY How to Make a Haunted House
CHAPTER XXVI MECHANICAL SECOND-SIGHT Approaching the Supernatural
CHAPTER XXVII PAPERGRAPHY How an Excellent Entertainment may be Given with a Sheet of Paper
CHAPTER XXVIII JUGGLING
CHAPTER XXIX PLATE-SPINNING AND WALTZING An Exciting Entertainment
CHAPTER XXX THE TIGHT-ROPE Trick Balancing
CHAPTER XXXI CLOG DANCING A Novel Entertainment
CHAPTER XXXII SHADOW SHOWS Hand Shadows
CHAPTER XXXIII LIGHTNING CARTOONS AND "FAKE" SKETCHING A Novel Form of Drawing-Room Entertainment
CHAPTER XXXIV FRICTIONAL FUN Some Amusing Electrical Experiments [1]
CHAPTER XXXV SOME ELECTRICAL EFFECTS The Magic of Mystery
CHAPTER XXXVI SAFE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS Amusing Tricks with Simple Apparatus
CHAPTER XXXVII SAFE CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS Twentieth-Century "Black Art"
CHAPTER XXXVIII ODD EXPERIMENTS To While Away Winter Hours
CHAPTER XXXIX MORE EXPERIMENTS TIPS AND DODGES FOR THE WINTER EVENINGS The Refractory Cork
CHAPTER XL PHOTO PASTIMES Camera Knights' Experiments
CHAPTER XLI HOW TO MAKE AND WORK MARIONETTES Constructing the Stage
CHAPTER XLII LIVING MARIONETTES A Good "One Man" Show
CHAPTER XLIII A HOME CIRCUS A New Form of Entertainment
CHAPTER XLIV HOW TO MAKE AND WORK A PEEP-SHOW An Old Form of Entertainment Revived
CHAPTER XLV THE "MECHANICAL" PEEP-SHOW Secrets of Lightning Transformations
CHAPTER XLVI HOW TO MAKE AND WORK A PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW His Highness of the Hump
CHAPTER XLVII DISSOLVING VIEWS Without a Magic Lantern
CHAPTER XLVIII INDOOR FIREWORKS Without the Use of Explosives
CHAPTER XLIX HOW TO MAKE A TELEPHONE For Use at Home
CHAPTER L TELEGRAPHY AT HOME A Galvanometer Adapted
CHAPTER LI ELEMENTARY HYPNOTISM The Mysteries and Marvels of "Under-Sleep"
CHAPTER LII THE POWERS AND MYSTERIES OF CLAIRVOYANCE Marvels of the "Sixth" Sense
CHAPTER LIII TABLE-TURNING Fun for an Impromptu Party
CHAPTER LIV PALMISTRY Secrets of the Past, Present, and Future
CHAPTER LV PHRENOLOGY The Estate "Under the Hat"
CHAPTER LVI TELLING FORTUNES BY CARDS, DICE, DOMINOES, ETC. What the Future has in Store
CHAPTER LVII GRAPHOLOGY Character from Handwriting
CHAPTER LVIII A SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN'S PARTY A Word to Grown-Ups
CHAPTER LIX PARLOR GAMES For Christmas Parties
CHAPTER LX PARLOR TRICKS AND PUZZLES Tangrams
CHAPTER LXI "HOW WOULD YOU ?" Puzzles That Please
CHAPTER LXII SOME OPTICAL ILLUSIONS When Seeing Eyes are Blind
CHAPTER LXIII CIPHERS AND CRYPTOGRAMS Successful Systems of Secret Writing
CHAPTER LXIV SECRET SIGNS Friend from Foe
CHAPTER LXV GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS FOR THE BLIND The Wonderful Sense of Touch
INDEX
Transcriber's Notes
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HOME FUN BY CECIL H. BULLIVANT
NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 214-220 East 23rd St.
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
