Dancing a Minuet. 15

These ladies and gentlemen are dancing a
minuet. It is a slow, graceful dance, which was
fashionable nearly a hundred years ago, when
people dressed as you see them in the picture.
In those days fine ladies and gentlemen used to
wear powder on their hair, as you sometimes
see footmen do, even now. Indeed, the gentle-
men generally wore powdered wigs: and both

 

little round patches of black sticking-plaster
here and there upon their faces to make their
complexions appear fairer. Was it not a curious
way of trying to look more beautiful ?

What, Johnny, you say you've got four
pictures of bears! Let me see. Don’t crumple
them up in your little chubby hand, dear. This
must come first. Here is a family of settlers
in the backwoods of North America. They