Henrietta's formative years were forged in the missionary life of China. She related that she and her siblings were reared by an "amah", who's green jade hair pin set in heavy gold spoke of her superior social status over the other "amahs" as nurse to the Doctor's children. Home schooled, tutored by Pearl S. Buck and educated at the Hillcrest School in Nanking China, Oberline College-(Lord Cottage)-Ohio, & Wellesley College, Henrietta developed great talent as a writer. Here is a transcription of part of one of her works, it was titled "My Own Pictures". "RED-Red is full of vigour, of passion: it appeals to the primitive elements of one's being. I have seen a dancer in red swaying, stamping, swirling her crimson skirts under a cruel light. She loses her individuality in the spell of the color. It is not mere girl down there, who might turn her ankle at any moment; but froth from the dreams, thoughts, and impulses of humanity, driven on by the rhythm of the music, maddened, she spins, faster, faster, forever until she weary, closes; and on the black background of the mind revolves a blot of red. One's whole soul, heart, and mind are stirred by clamorous emotion which can not be dispelled. The music crashes to an end---or else (for who can tell?) I might have arisen and given myself up to the dance, feeling, seeing red in my every fiber."
She graduated in 1931 & married Andrew K. Schwartz on May 8, 1932 in Houston, TX. Her trials endured. As a result of her experiences during China's revolution & the Great Depression she found the strength to dig deep within herself to see to the education of her two children, Andrew Jr & Susan, and to support her husband in their varied business enterprises. In Houston she took some post-graduate classes in Interior Design at Rice Univ. Her intellectual interests led her and her husband to gather a fine collection of international paintings, furniture and chinese ceramics, many of which were donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 1929 with a premonition of her far distant death she wrote: "When the rich red blood no longer surges through one's veins, one can not sing, run, and cry as one's fellow men: one will lie cold, still, sightless in some dark corner. I hope a scarlet poppy grows above my grave. People who see it will remember that the plot of ground which my bones fertilize was not always my dwelling place, but that I too was once moved and swayed by the winds of heaven which blow from eternity to eternity." (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
She graduated in 1931 & married Andrew K. Schwartz on May 8, 1932 in Houston, TX. Her trials endured. As a result of her experiences during China's revolution & the Great Depression she found the strength to dig deep within herself to see to the education of her two children, Andrew Jr & Susan, and to support her husband in their varied business enterprises. In Houston she took some post-graduate classes in Interior Design at Rice Univ. Her intellectual interests led her and her husband to gather a fine collection of international paintings, furniture and chinese ceramics, many of which were donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 1929 with a premonition of her far distant death she wrote: "When the rich red blood no longer surges through one's veins, one can not sing, run, and cry as one's fellow men: one will lie cold, still, sightless in some dark corner. I hope a scarlet poppy grows above my grave. People who see it will remember that the plot of ground which my bones fertilize was not always my dwelling place, but that I too was once moved and swayed by the winds of heaven which blow from eternity to eternity." (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
Henrietta's formative years were forged in the missionary life of China. She related that she and her siblings were reared by an "amah", who's green jade hair pin set in heavy gold spoke of her superior social status over the other "amahs" as nurse to the Doctor's children. Home schooled, tutored by Pearl S. Buck and educated at the Hillcrest School in Nanking China, Oberline College-(Lord Cottage)-Ohio, & Wellesley College, Henrietta developed great talent as a writer. Here is a transcription of part of one of her works, it was titled "My Own Pictures". "RED-Red is full of vigour, of passion: it appeals to the primitive elements of one's being. I have seen a dancer in red swaying, stamping, swirling her crimson skirts under a cruel light. She loses her individuality in the spell of the color. It is not mere girl down there, who might turn her ankle at any moment; but froth from the dreams, thoughts, and impulses of humanity, driven on by the rhythm of the music, maddened, she spins, faster, faster, forever until she weary, closes; and on the black background of the mind revolves a blot of red. One's whole soul, heart, and mind are stirred by clamorous emotion which can not be dispelled. The music crashes to an end---or else (for who can tell?) I might have arisen and given myself up to the dance, feeling, seeing red in my every fiber."
She graduated in 1931 & married Andrew K. Schwartz on May 8, 1932 in Houston, TX. Her trials endured. As a result of her experiences during China's revolution & the Great Depression she found the strength to dig deep within herself to see to the education of her two children, Andrew Jr & Susan, and to support her husband in their varied business enterprises. In Houston she took some post-graduate classes in Interior Design at Rice Univ. Her intellectual interests led her and her husband to gather a fine collection of international paintings, furniture and chinese ceramics, many of which were donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 1929 with a premonition of her far distant death she wrote: "When the rich red blood no longer surges through one's veins, one can not sing, run, and cry as one's fellow men: one will lie cold, still, sightless in some dark corner. I hope a scarlet poppy grows above my grave. People who see it will remember that the plot of ground which my bones fertilize was not always my dwelling place, but that I too was once moved and swayed by the winds of heaven which blow from eternity to eternity." (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
She graduated in 1931 & married Andrew K. Schwartz on May 8, 1932 in Houston, TX. Her trials endured. As a result of her experiences during China's revolution & the Great Depression she found the strength to dig deep within herself to see to the education of her two children, Andrew Jr & Susan, and to support her husband in their varied business enterprises. In Houston she took some post-graduate classes in Interior Design at Rice Univ. Her intellectual interests led her and her husband to gather a fine collection of international paintings, furniture and chinese ceramics, many of which were donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 1929 with a premonition of her far distant death she wrote: "When the rich red blood no longer surges through one's veins, one can not sing, run, and cry as one's fellow men: one will lie cold, still, sightless in some dark corner. I hope a scarlet poppy grows above my grave. People who see it will remember that the plot of ground which my bones fertilize was not always my dwelling place, but that I too was once moved and swayed by the winds of heaven which blow from eternity to eternity." (Bio. by Jim Hutcheson)
