Grand Ma's Apron to Many,  Mother's Apron to Me

 

 

 

 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.

   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.