. Harper's young people . VOL. IV. --No. 17:: PDBLISHED II A IMKK A: KKS. X, w V,,,;K. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Tuesday, February 20, 1883. HAKPIB jt $ per Yrar, in Advance!. YE DANCE OF OLDEN TIME.—[SEE THE MINUET, NEXT PAGE.] 242 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. THE MINUET. BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER. Then Alys at the spinet sits and warbles The sweet old ballads that we neer forget;And Ruth and Phyllis courtesy to the pictures,While Bridget steps in stately minuet. MANY of you have heard your parents speak of somestately personages of their acquaintance as belong-ing to the old school.
. Harper's young people . VOL. IV. --No. 17:: PDBLISHED II A IMKK A: KKS. X, w V,,,;K. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Tuesday, February 20, 1883. HAKPIB jt $ per Yrar, in Advance!. YE DANCE OF OLDEN TIME.—[SEE THE MINUET, NEXT PAGE.] 242 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. THE MINUET. BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER. Then Alys at the spinet sits and warbles The sweet old ballads that we neer forget;And Ruth and Phyllis courtesy to the pictures,While Bridget steps in stately minuet. MANY of you have heard your parents speak of somestately personages of their acquaintance as belong-ing to the old school. If you have observed the peo-ple thus described, you have noticed that their mannerswere fine—what, indeed, we might call finished — andthat they were more ceremonious in their politeness thansome of the rest of us are in these busy nineteenth-centurydays. The deep bows, the low sweeping courtesies, andthe formal speech of .such ladies and gentlemen are verybeautiful, and all the more so that the old school seemsto be on the decline. The period to which this polish was natural was theperiod of the minuet. That elegant and graceful dancecame, in the first place, from Poi
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