Mechanical Bertha, who had loved her bicycle, loved her motorcar better. She was steam powered, too, all human beings were, some set to simmer and others to boil. Listen to Bertha Truitt percolate! The things she would do, with her steam-powered notions. Doubt her? Feel: there’s her boiler. Why she never corsetted: she’d been built by her inventor particularly, she wasn’t going to choke her source.
