Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

Some performers, for the purpose of this trick, use a tube with a false top, as above described, but open from end to end, without the diagonal partition above mentioned. Before placing the plume in the tube, which they do standing behind the table, they secretly remove the cap at the lower end, and allow the plume to fall through on the servante, where it remains. In this case, there is no production of sweets, but the plume having been produced from the shawl, the performer removes both caps, and hands the empty tube for examination. THE MAGIC LAUNDRY.--There is very little brilliancy, either of invention or of manipulation, in this trick, but it is nevertheless generally very well received.