The History of APRONS

The History of 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, because she only had a

few, it was easier to wash aprons

than dresses and they 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

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 !!