Miss Heller you ignorant slut (Thank you SNL), they lived like that BECAUSE air Conditioning for homes was not Available!!!
If I could offer them central air and heat with the snap of my fingers they would have raised me up as if a god.
BTW you seemed to have forgotten in winter they had COAL fired boilers for heat (OMG EVIL COAL).
Idiot
All this electricity, running water, and air conditioning thing is just a passing fad anyway.