The Diminishing Cards

The trick of this title is a favorite with conjurers the world over.

The performer takes a pack of cards, presumably the ones that he has used in the preceding experiments, and, pretending to squeeze it, causes the cards to become half their former size.

After displaying these cards, he once more covers them with his hand and this time reduces them to about onefourth their original size.

These cards, small as they are, are made to diminish again and again, until finally, they have become the veriest miniature cards, being less than half an

inch long and proportionately wide. Holding this tiny pack at the tips of the fingers, the conjurer gives it a final rub, causing the cards to vanish altogether.