Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1897 — Passing of the Skirt Dance. [ARTICLE]

Passing of the Skirt Dance.

France is doing away with the skirt dance and there is a return to favor of the beautiful, stately dances—the minuet, the gavotte, the pavane, and the saraband—which lent grace to the eighteenth century.