Kay...we got electricity later too...and a big window fan in the dining room window!!1 Boy was that something in those days. y Mother got her first 'Frigidaire" (thats what they were all called) when I was in the 8th grade! We also got a whole new dining room suit...the pretty early american maple...long table, eight carved chairs, and hutch with ipen top. It was so pretty...probably was Ethan Allen, cause I saw them later. Sometimes in late years, when my first children were teenagers, she gave it away, when we helped her build a small house,that had a living and dining combination room.Life did change for me and for my Mother...after my Dad passed away at age 38. But those early years stay with you. And Mama kept most everything that we had...except the mules, horses, ect, we couldn't handle the big farm after my brother left for the CCC. but she kept a cow to milk until I was about grown.