Overheard

We had one electric fan. To have had two would have been an extravagance. Anyway, about 1917 with our kind of electricity both of them buzzing away would have blown a fuse. I knew summer had come when Mother brought the fan from the attic, dusted it, oiled it and placed it in a certain corner of the parlor. From that location, everyone received some of the stiff breeze if we had it tu...