How did Jig get pregnant?

In the modern era it is fairly easy for a woman to avoid
getting pregnant if she wants to. But this story is about the 1920s. There was no such
thing as a birth-control pill or a morning-after pill or antibiotics. Contraceptive
measures were primitive and unreliable. Young people today often fail to realize how
much things have changed in the past hundred years or so. Looking around my small
apartment, I can see many things that were nonexistent and even undreamt of in the
1920s. There were no microwave ovens. No refrigerators or freezers. No garbage
disposals. No electric clocks. No synthetic fabrics. No plastic items. Certainly no
computers or even electric typewriters. No ballpoint pens. No television. Radio was very
crude and limited in range. No recording devices for home use, e.g., no telephone
answering machines. Virtually no air transportation. No wristwatches. Obviously no cell
phones. No electronic gadgets.

Jig and the American have
been together for a long time. It should have come as no surprise that she became
pregnant. They are young. Sometimes people get careless, don't they? Nature has a way of
playing tricks on lovers. The name of the game is procreation. Jig may have gotten
pregnant deliberately, hoping that the man would accept it as a fait accompli and agree
to give up their nomadic existence, settle down, become a father and a breadwinner.
(This would certainly not be the first time such a thing had occurred.) He is pressuring
her to get an abortion, but she is subtly pressuring him to let her have the baby. She
is making him feel like a heel--which he is. He needs that second anis del toro.