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I don't think our kids
know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the
dress underneath because she only had a few.
It was also
because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons
used less material.
But along with that, it served as a
potholder 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 folk 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.
Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about
Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma
used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to
cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to
thaw.
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs
were on that apron.
I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron - but
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