GRANDMA’S APRON – by Des Kelly
Just wondering how many teenagers of today will even know of, or remember what an apron is ?.
Thank you Charles Schokman, for this most interesting piece on a garment worn mostly by the older ladies in their lives. Please read this inspiring little ‘post’ which will also provide some reminiscent memories of many who have already left us. God bless all Grandmas.
Desmond Kelly.
(Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka.
GRANDMA’S APRON
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is. The principle use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons 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 autumn, the apron was used to bring in all sorts of fruit 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 folk 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! Grandma’s of past 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.
Enjoy this clip.
Incidentally, Hope you are not tied to your wife’s apron strings?—Ha Ha!!
