The Apron

The History of 'APRONS'

(Notice that a "Medium" is a size 14 - 16)

Remember making an apron in Home Ec?

 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.

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 love...