Home Fun

by Cecil Henry Bullivant

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Contents

1. Prefatory Note
2. Chapter I. Amateur Theatricals
3. Chapter II. Mysteries of Make-Up
4. Chapter III. The Quick-Change Artist
5. Chapter IV. Character Impersonations
6. Chapter V. The Universal Hat
7. Chapter VI. Nigger Minstrelsy
8. Chapter VII. Some Suggestions in Black
9. Chapter VIII. Tableaux Vivants
10. Chapter IX. Charades
11. Chapter X. The Possibilities of the Musical Sketch
12. Chapter XI. Vamping Simplified
13. Chapter XII. An Evening at the Phonograph
14. Chapter XIII. Musical Glasses
15. Chapter XIV. Hand-Bell Ringing
16. Chapter XV. The Art of Drawing-Room Singing
17. Chapter XVI. Drawing-Room Recitals
18. Chapter XVII. The Art of Whistling
19. Chapter XVIII. Bunkum Entertainments
20. Chapter XIX. Ventriloquism in a Month
21. Chapter XX. Conjuring for All
22. Chapter XXI. Some Knotty Points
23. Chapter XXII. Black Stage Mysteries
24. Chapter XXIII. Concerning Ghosts
25. Chapter XXIV. Some Stage Illusions
26. Chapter XXV. The Room of Mystery
27. Chapter XXVI. Mechanical Second-Sight
28. Chapter XXVII. Papergraphy
29. Chapter XXVIII. Juggling
30. Chapter XXIX. Plate-Spinning and Waltzing
31. Chapter XXX. The Tight-Rope
32. Chapter XXXI. Clog Dancing
33. Chapter XXXII. Shadow Shows
34. Chapter XXXIII. Lightning Cartoons and “Fake” Sketching
35. Chapter XXXIV. Frictional Fun
36. Chapter XXXV. Some Electrical Effects
37. Chapter XXXVI. Safe Scientific Experiments
38. Chapter XXXVII. Safe Chemical Experiments
39. Chapter XXXVIII. Odd Experiments
40. Chapter XXXIX. More Experiments Tips and Dodges for the Winter Evenings
41. Chapter XL. Photo Pastimes
42. Chapter XLI. How to Make and Work Marionettes
43. Chapter XLII. Living Marionettes
44. Chapter XLIII. A Home Circus
45. Chapter XLIV. How to Make and Work a Peep-Show
46. Chapter XLV. The “Mechanical” Peep-Show
47. Chapter XLVI. How to Make and Work a Punch and Judy Show
48. Chapter XLVII. Dissolving Views
49. Chapter XLVIII. Indoor Fireworks
50. Chapter XLIX. How to Make a Telephone
51. Chapter L. Telegraphy at Home
52. Chapter LI. Elementary Hypnotism
53. Chapter LII. The Powers and Mysteries of Clairvoyance
54. Chapter LIII. Table-Turning
55. Chapter LIV. Palmistry
56. Chapter LV. Phrenology
57. Chapter LVI. Telling Fortunes by Cards, Dice, Dominoes, Etc
58. Chapter LVII. Graphology
59. Chapter LVIII. A Successful Children’s Party
60. Chapter LIX. Parlor Games
61. Chapter LX. Parlor Tricks and Puzzles
62. Chapter LXI. “How Would You——?”
63. Chapter LXII. Some Optical Illusions
64. Chapter LXIII. Ciphers and Cryptograms
65. Chapter LXIV. Secret Signs
66. Chapter LXV. Games and Amusements for the Blind

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