t’s 1911. Unless you live in a large city, chances are pretty good the closest thing you have to indoor plumbing is
a hand pump in the kitchen and a door on the outhouse. Electricity is some- thing you see every time there’s a thun- derstorm. Central heating, let alone air-
conditioning, is way off in the future. You saw one of those newfangled biplanes, coughing, wheezing and actually flying at the county fair. The town banker has an automobile that no one else has the fog- giest idea how to drive or even start it, and he drives it on the rutted cow paths.