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Show Marriage, Motherhood, and Migraines 121 their Mutual teaching. They were popular instructors and attracted a surprising number of attendees. Harold's work continued to progress on his dry cleaning machine: November 5 1930. Harold and I are jubilant over accepted arrangement with the American Laundry Machine Co. Mr. Johnson had dinner with us, and then took his train, apparently as satisfied as we feel. We are so full of plans and hopes and wonder. For a while we just sat and talked and hugged and kissed each other ecstatically. He says his two great failures have been turned to successes, me and the dry cleaning machine! Tonight we plan to settle things with James [Silver], move to Salt Lake, approach the sugar companies with the beet loading ideas, then next fall go back to Boston Tech! [M.LT.] December 19, 1930. This day Harold mailed the signed our .... contract to the American over his Laundry Machine Co. This signed patent rights in the dry cleaning machine. They spent twelve days, December 19 to January 1, in Salt Lake City with Madelyn's parents, then returned to Ogden. Harold spent the next few days talking about "the proposition" with James. Harold arranged to leave the Iron Works on February 1, 1931. Reaching a final settlement with James, Harold was now free to work on his sugar beet piler and other inventions. The Silvers moved from Ogden to Salt Lake City, where Harold worked for the next three years as a self employed consulting engineer. Madelyn was ambivalent about Harold's new situation. Caught up in the Mormon cultural expectation of a wife, she was supposed to be cheerful, supportive, and not too visible. The good wife must be behind the husband, encourage him when he is failing, be mindful of his interests, help him to make a go of things. The object of the marriage is his happiness, his achievement, his triumph. She wrote: I am incredibly dull without him. Now is beginning the test |
