Show EARLY CUSTOMS or OF nw ENGLAND the drinking of health and the shoki ng of ef tobacco were prohibited the former being considered as a heathenish practice sad and leading to intemperance it was first discountenanced by mr winthrop the governor at his own table though his family had been accustomed to the practice the other as a waste of time as an unnecessary expense and also as a species of intoxication pride and levity of character were cognizable by the magistrate alioth the richness and the lae mode of dress add even eve the length of the heir hair were subject to legislation the men were required to have their heir hair cut abort short that they might not resemble women mud and the women on were required to wear veils to prevent the wanton gaze of men the women were also for bidden to expose their arms or bosoms to view and it was ordered that their sleeves should reach down to their wrists and their gowns closed round the neck no one unless worth two hundred pounds was permitted to wear gold or silver lace or silk hoods or |