Aprons
>
>I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
>
>The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
>the dress underneath,
>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 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.
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