The pages and sedan chair-bearers wear black velvet, with black waistcoats and white neck-pieces and ruffles.  Black stockings and low black shoes.  Hair powdered and worn in a cue.  Black suits, basted back to give the effect of an eighteenth-century coat, white neckcloth and ruffles of lawn will make good substitutes for the more ornate costume.  For the white wigs, a tight-fitting skull-cap of white muslin.  Basted to this white cotton batting, shaped to fit the head, and having a cue in the back tied with black velvet ribbon.  For the sedan chair, if a real sedan chair cannot be had, have a chair fastened to a stout platform of wood.  Handles for the bearers to hold should be fastened to the chair.  A boxed-in canopy of heavy white cardboard covers this, the cardboard fastened to a light framework.  Over the cardboard should be pasted pale-yellow wallpaper, or white-flowered wallpaper.  The inside of the chair should be covered in flowered cretonne.  The handles should be gilded.

MUSIC (for band, orchestra, or piano): 

For the Dream Music:  Minuet, by L. Boccherini
Gavotte:  Gavotte Favorite de Marie Antoinette (1774), by Charles
Neustedt. 
Minuet:  Minuet from Don Juan, by Mozart.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN EPISODE LINCOLN CABIN SCENE

CHARACTERS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
NANCY LINCOLN
JOHN LINCOLN
AMY ROBY
TOM BUSH
FRANCOIS, a young French-Canadian
ANDREW SMITH, a fiddler
RED PLUME, the chieftain of a small Indian tribe
DARK CLOUD, an Indian brave
SKY-OF-DAWN, an Indian maiden
Other young people, friends of Lincoln, Indian braves, Indian maidens

SCENE:  A clearing beyond the Lincoln cabin, Little Creek, Indiana, 1823.

When the boys and girls who are to take part in the outdoor merrymaking begin to appear, it is seen that the boys wear moccasins, and buckskin is bound in strappings to their knees.  They wear, for the most part, dark knee-breeches.  Their shirts are dark-blue, dark-red, and dark-plum flannel—­any dark flannel shirt will do.  These shirts are open at the neck, and a gay handkerchief is twisted about them, tied with loose ends.  Francois betrays his French ancestry by a red sash tied at the side.

The girls wear short dark calico, homespun, or woollen dresses of solid color, dark-blue, dark-brown, dark-gray.  These dresses should have square necks, which show the throat.  The dresses themselves are not much seen, because each girl wears an old-fashioned cloak, gathered at the neck, and falling to the edge of the dress.  The cloaks are gay in color—­forest-green, red, bright blue; in shape something like the well-known “Shaker” cloaks.  Some of the cloaks have hoods that lend an air of quaintness.  Several of the girls wear bead chains, evidently the work of their own fingers.

The scene opens with the entrance of Nancy and John Lincoln, and Tom Bush.  The rest follow from background.  It is evident from their attire and smiling faces that this is a gala occasion.  Tom Bush carries a kettle to right, near a fallen log.  Then he and the other boys kindle a fire, erect a rude tripod, and swing the kettle not far from where the log lies.  Much business of blowing, lighting, etc.  A battered tin coffee-pot is produced, ready for making the coffee.