The History of 'APRONS'
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I don't think our kids know what an apron is.
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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.
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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.
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When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
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And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
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Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
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Chips and kindling wood were brought into
the kitchen in that apron.
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From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
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In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
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When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
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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.
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It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ' old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
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Send this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma's aprons.
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REMEMBER:
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool.
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Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
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They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
but I don't think I ever caught anything from it.
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