Show how modesty is depicted by drawing four little angles in the fifth circle with the vertex, or point of each one at the bottom, while disdain, which is the reciprocal of modesty, can be illustrated in the sixth circle by reversing the positions of the angles and having their vertices at the top.
To portray surprise all you have to do is to draw four little circles inside the seventh large circle and you will have caught the expression. Finally in the eighth circle draw two slanting lines for the eyes, a vertical line for the nose and an angle with the ends of the lines pointed down and you will have a very good representation of anger, (or maybe it’s a Chinaman.)
| BY DE LIGHT OF DE SILVERY MOON | PAT AND HIS POIPE | HE HAS JUST HEARD A JOKE |
| B | C | D |
Fig. 117 b, c, d. three simple cartoons that you can do
Now without my telling you how to draw the cartoons shown at B C and D in [Fig. 117], draw each one of them half a dozen times on a sheet of paper with your marking crayon and when you get before your audience you will be able to do them like a lightning crayon artist.
Thirty Minutes of Chemistry.
—Here are some very pretty and easily made experiments in chemistry and as you perform them you can give the explanation I have written about each one which will serve as the patter.
The Mystic Glass of Milk.
—The Effect.—You show a glass of perfectly clean water and blow through it with a glass tube, clay pipe or a straw when it becomes to all intents, though not to all purposes, milk of the cow variety. See [Fig. 118].
| BEFORE BLOWING THROUGH STRAW | AFTER BLOWING THROUGH STRAW |