Grandma's Apron
The principle use of Grandma's apron was
to protect the dress
underneath, but along with that, it served as a
holder for removing hot
pans from the oven. It was wonderful for drying children's
tears, and on
occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
From the chicken-coop the apron was used
for carrying eggs, fussy
chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the
warming oven.
When company came those aprons were ideal
hiding places for shy
kids. And when the weather was cold, grandma
wrapped it around her arms.
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring
brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips and kindling wood were brought into
the kitchen in that apron.
From the garden, it carried all sorts of
vegetables. After the peas had
been shelled it carried out the hulls. In the
fall the apron was used to
bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how
much furniture that old apron could dust in a
matter of seconds.
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch,
waved her
apron, and the men knew it was time to come in
from the fields to dinner.
It will be a long time before someone
invents something that will
replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes.
REMEMBER THIS .........
"Grandma used to set her hot baked apple
pies on the window sill
to cool. Her granddaughter's set theirs on the
window sill to thaw."