Our first century . For one thing the othercolonies were more abundantly supplied with the neces-saries and luxuries of life than the New England set-tlements were. For another the colonists, outside of NewEngland, led a more generous, a less exacting and amore entertaining life than did the New was less of insistence upon prayers and thanks-givings and fasts and church attendance to afflict theservant class. But chiefly the difference probably lay inthe fact that white and black servants were much moreplentiful in the other colonies than they were in NewEngland, and in slaver
Our first century . For one thing the othercolonies were more abundantly supplied with the neces-saries and luxuries of life than the New England set-tlements were. For another the colonists, outside of NewEngland, led a more generous, a less exacting and amore entertaining life than did the New was less of insistence upon prayers and thanks-givings and fasts and church attendance to afflict theservant class. But chiefly the difference probably lay inthe fact that white and black servants were much moreplentiful in the other colonies than they were in NewEngland, and in slavery the negro especially is a muchmore docile servitor than any white person ever is. CHAPTER XXIII DRESS, SPORTS AND PUNISHMENTS SUNDAY LAWS AND SUNDAY OBSERVANCES THE dress and manners of the colonists in that earlyfirst century of American settlement were rude, ofcourse, if judged by the standards of our farmers and other workingmen of the poorer classwore breeches made of leather. Those of the better to. Colonial loom. do classes used such cloths as they could get. Thebreeches of all classes ended at the knee, below whichwere stockings with stout high shoes or boots for the feet. 229 230 OUR FIRST CENTURY The first cloth made in the colonies was woven oftow—which consists of the refuse fibers of the outer clothing of women was made chiefly of whatwas known as linsey-woolsey or morecommonly simply as linsey. It was adomestic cloth woven in home looms withcotton or hemp threads running in one di-rection and woolen threads running in theother. In the remoter districts many of themen who were engaged in lumbering andother such occupations clad themselveschiefly in the skins of animals, wild anddomestic, and in leather. The early colonists, before a better todo class came out, particularly those inVirginia, had been rude, sport lovingpeople in England and had lived moreor less roughly there. In coming toAmerica they had brought their mannersand customs with the
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