Tip - Table Tricks with Knives & Forks - Modern Mechanix (Jul, 1929)

By SAM BROWN The after-dinner tricks with knives and forks described here by Mr. Brown can be performed with little advance preparation, and they afford sure-fire entertainment for everybody. NOTHING so very magical about knives and forks. Once upon a time there was a man who ate peas . . . But that's something else again. How's this: The performer exhibits a napkin. He rolls it up loosely. He pokes a fork down into the center of the rolled up napkin. And then . . . abracadabra . . . the fork slowly rises from the napkin, bowing quaintly to the bewildered spectators.