Indestructible Handkerchief

Effect: A large safety pin is pulled through a handkerchief without tearing it.
Secret: Ask someone to hold a handkerchief out taut. Push a safety pin through the material, near the edge
of the handkerchief. Hold the pin by the tail end and turn it towards yourself. Now pull the pin to the right.
When you stop, push the pin forward so it goes back through the material. You have moved the pin from one
place to another without tearing the handkerchief. What actually happens is that the material runs between
the bar and the head of the pin.

Disappearing Quarter magic trick

What you need :

• a quarter
• napkin

How to do this Disappearing Quarter magic:

1. To do this trick, hold the quarter in your hand, between your thumb and your index finger. The palm of your hand should be facing your body.
   
2. Now practice passing the quarter from your right hand to your left hand. If you're left handed, you can hold the quarter in your left hand. It's good to do this so you know what it's supposed to look like when you pretend to pass the quarter. That way you can fake it better.
   
3. Now, for the magic. This time instead of passing the quarter to your other hand, you're going to say the magic words, " abra ca dabra" , Make this coin leave the room now!" and use the index and middle fingers on your empty left hand to knock the quarter into your right hand. You still pretend to grab the quarter with your left hand, as you are dropping it into your right hand.
4. Keep practicing and soon you will be able to learn this magic trick like a pro!

An Impossible Escape

Effect: A handkerchief escapes from a sealed tumbler.
Secret: A coloured handkerchief is placed in a tumbler. It has a fine thread attached to one corner which hangs over the outside of the glass. A second handkerchief is placed on top of the first. Another handkerchief is placed over the glass and secured with an elastic band. Reach under the handkerchief covering the glass and pull the secret thread, pulling the coloured handkerchief from the glass into your hand. Pull it into full view then remove the elastic band and covering handkerchief to prove that the coloured handkerchief really did escape.

Knot From Nowhere

Effect: A knot mysteriously appears in the corner of a handkerchief.
Secret: Before your performance, secretly tie a knot in one corner of a handkerchief. Show the handkerchief but hold it with the knot hidden in your right hand. The left hand now lifts the bottom end of the handkerchief and places it in the right hand along with the top corner. Give the handkerchief a shake and drop the unknotted end. Repeat this two or three times. On the second or third attempt allow the knotted corner to drop, retaining your grip on the other corner. All you have done is change the corner you are holding but it appears that the knot has formed by magic.

THE GLASS TRICK

This trick has been titled by my audiences. It is as popular an effect with them as anything I do. They always ask for "The Glass Trick." It will be found equally effective as an opening trick close-up, on the night club floor, or on the stage. In fact it can be shown under any, and all, conditions. Basically the trick is not new but the changes made in it have enhanced its audience appeal to an enormous extent.
The magician enters, holding in one hand two men's size silk handkerchiefs by their corners. One of the handkerchiefs is red and the other is white. Those colors are not essential, but the handkerchiefs must be of different colors. He announces that he wants one of these handkerchiefs chosen--the one selected will be the one used in the trick. The handkerchief not chosen is pulled away from the other and thrown over his arm. He picks up a highball glass with his empty hand and pushes the chosen handkerchief down into the glass. It will fill about half the glass. The magician then takes the other handkerchief and pushes it into the glass, as he explains, to act as a stopper. He then calls attention to the fact that the selected handkerchief is in the glass and cannot come out the bottom because of the glass and the other handkerchief closes the mouth of the glass. He takes the glass between the palms of his two hands. One hand covers the bottom of the glass and the other the mouth of the glass. The fingers of the hands are held straight out so that every one plainly can see the glass and both handkerchiefs. He waves the glass a very little and the chosen handkerchief instantly disappears. Instantly the glass may be handed for examination. Not only will it be found intact, but the second handkerchief will be wedged in the mouth of the glass like a stopper.
To prepare for the trick, all that is needed is a length of braided silk cord. It probably can be found in a store selling material for ladies' dresses, but I know that such cord also is carried in upholsterers' shops. It needs to be quite strong and mine is about an eighth inch in diameter. Incidentally, this silk cord is much more flexible, and therefore better, than fishline. A one inch loop is made at one end and the cords at the end of the loop bound with thread. This fastening of the loop must be most secure. That loop is for the handkerchief as will be explained later. I also make the same size and kind of loop at the other end, for I slip it on to the strap of my wrist watch. The length of the cord depends upon the length of one's arms and the width of one's back. The cord must be just long enough to go from the fingers of one hand to the opposite wrist-up one sleeve across the back and down the other sleeve when the arms are bent and the elbows held flat at the sides.