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Show EARLY SETTLER VERY POMPOUS V . to church he was attended by nn escort es-cort In red cloaks and a guard of SO men. alt hough there were not mora than 200 In the colony. When (he Puritans, a people who were supposed to have Inld aside the pomps and vanities, went to church, they were summnned to Captain. Stnndlsh's door by the roli vf a drum. Knch man wore a cloak and carried a musket on bis shoulder. 1hy fell In three abreast, led by a sergeant, and behind this rswrt strode R ler Brew-ster Brew-ster with Captain Standi, sfnitilns; stiffly at bis side, with word Irt seiibbnrd and bearing a catm or wand as an eublem of bis authority. Pioneer Colonist In Amerlea 8eemed to Lack the Saving Sense of Humor. A persistent respect for ths pomps and vanities of feudalism with Its distinction dis-tinction of classes and Its conventions of respectful observance was held by ttie early settlers In the American wilderness. wil-derness. They showed a curious lack of n saving sense of humor. When tht first settlement at Jamestown was starving, Sir Thomas (lutes, on relinquishing re-linquishing his authority, fired a salute from the fort, and made bis departure like a king abandoning bis retjlm. le la Warr, arriving a few days later, landed with a flourish of trumpets and a procession, with ban-neii ban-neii borne before htm. When he went |
