To sweeten the beverage, a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum." In such parties propriety and dignity of deportment prevailed ; " the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs.

and knit their own woolen stockings, speaking but little, and chiefly in brief answers to questions put to them, few and far between. As to the gentlemen, each of them tranquilly smoked his pipe, and seemed lost in contemplation of the blue and white tiles with which the fire-places were decorated, wherein sundry passages of Scripture were piously portrayed."

The dress of the people varied with their fortunes and the change from the log cabin epoch to that of the wealthy and courtly inhabitants of the broad manors. The men who first adventured into the woods learned from the Indians to wear dressed skins and moccasins, but with those of the towns and farmsteads their ambition, as well as that of their womenfolk, was to dress in the manner of "the best fashion at home." Long hair was universal in the days before periwigs. Cutting the hair short was the brand of disgrace and the mark of identification aflixed to a servant who ran away before his term of indenture

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had expired. Puritanism was somewhat successful in its fight against long hair, but when the periwig re-appeared, in the reign of Charles II., it proved too enticing for human vanity to resist. It probably succumbed at length to the very completeness of its victory. Not only men of dignity wore it, but many humbler men followed their example. " One finds," says Mr. Eggleston, " half-fed country schoolmasters in wigs ; tradesmen also proceeded to shave off their natural hair and don the mass of thread, silk, horsehair or women's hair, with which wigs of various kinds were compounded.