Grandma's Apron ....

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect
the dress underneath, but along with that, it served
as a holder 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 this!

"Grandma use to set her hot baked
apple pies on the window sill to
cool. Her granddaughters set theirs
on the window sill to thaw."