HISTORY OF THE APRON

[Ginger]

I got this email today and it made me think of our dear Westie whom I recall loves collecting aprons

 

HISTORY OF THE APRON

 

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 tobe 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 infrom 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.

 

[Crazy4Canning]

The only thing I ever caught from an apron was a few yanks of the strings by grandpa and boy cousins and lots of hugs.