During growing-up years, I don’t remember hearing much talk about splashing on sweet-smelling stuff.Surely it was poetic injustice, what with cotton-picking heating up many of my kin who labored in the fields, not to mention other farm chores that caused streams of sweat that seemed inevitable during half of each calendar year.The injustice? Airconditioning was a term we hadn’t heard of; the closest thing to it in our town during the 1940s was movie theaters claiming to offer “air-cooled comfort.” Many of us were either born too soon, or air-conditioning arrived too late.With such in mind, a recent piece by ...