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Show 152 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER only relatives but many single persons and lonely couples in the Denver LDS community. And she occasionally had the clubs not and committees she worked with for lunch. But she was not a lavish entertainer. Madelyn's penchant for beauty was reflected in the house's interior design. Works of art hung on the walls, room decora tions were coordinated; she once decorated her room in the col ors she had seen used in a London ballet. The family listened to symphonies and all the children took music lessons. She loved having plants in the house and flowers in the yard. She taught her children to love the grandeur of the mountains, the enchant ment of streams and rivers, the charm of wildflowers, the rich ness of autumn leaves (the aspens dropped "gold coins"), even the power of thunderstorms. In September 1937 Harold took her with him on a three week "business honeymoon." They went by train to Chicago; Lansing and Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland; New York City; Boston; back to Detroit and Saginaw, Michigan; Chicago; and home. Madelyn shopped, loved the countryside they rode through, went to see musicals and movies, took a boat trip on Lake Michigan, and visited some historic Mormon sites at Kirtland and Painesville, Ohio. In the Boston area they visited Lexington and Concord, the Ralph Waldo Emerson home, and the old Manse where Nathaniel Hawthorne had lived and worked for four years, Marblehead, Gloucester, Singing Beach, Paul Revere's house, Old Ironsides, Bowdoin Hall, Harvard Yard, and along the Fenway. On October 4 she remembered that three years earlier, in her first year in Denver, she gave a program in the LDS Relief Society in which she read poetry about women climaxing in motherhood. That night, she reflect ed, their little Judith was conceived." After she returned home, about October 12, Madelyn did some canning of fruits and vegetables, and made this account ing on October 14: 7 1/2 quarts of chili sauce, 48 quarts of peaches, 43 quarts of grape juice, 27 quarts of pears, 8 jars of raspberry jam, 50 glasses of jelly, and 13 quarts of tomatoes. She and her "helper" must have been very busy! On October 26 she wrote: "Since I arrived home from the trip I have been so |
