5. READING NAMES IN SEALED ENVELOPES
A number of small white drug envelopes are given out, with white cards to match. The spectators write the names of famous people on the cards and insert the cards, face down, in the envelopes, which they seal. The performer collects them and, holding the envelopes to his forehead, reads the names.
Another kind of thumb tip is required. This has a small round hole cut in it (Fig. 7) and a piece of fine sponge, cut as shown in Fig. 8, is inserted so that part of the sponge protrudes a little through the hole (Fig. 9). Saturate the sponge with rubbing alcohol, carbons, or tetrachloride, and place the thumb tip in your right outside coat pocket. After the envelopes have been collected, secretly get the tip onto your right thumb and take the envelopes one by one, the thumbs on the face toward yourself and the fingers on the back toward the spectators. Rub the sponge part of the right thumb tip across the face of the envelope as you lift it to your forehead. The paper instantly becomes transparent, enabling you to read the name written on the card. Reveal it in the usual way, hesitating and stumbling occasionally as if the information came to you by brain waves from the several spectators.
Tear off the end of each envelope with the left hand, extract the card, and show it. Proceed in the same way with three or four, which will be enough to read. Put the last card in your pocket, saying that you will keep it as a souvenir, and at the same time drop the gimmick into the pocket. Leave the other cards and the unopened envelopes on the table for inspection if anyone cares to make one. Crumple the opened envelopes and throw them aside.
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