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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1920)
' THE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE: MAY '23, 1920. ' Omaha Doctor Reveals Love Ideas About Pretty Nurse And -Wife in Autobiography Relations With Surgical Assistant Who Caused Wife Of Dr. W. 0. Henry to Secure Divorce Told by . ' Former Omaha Surgeon From Their First Meefc ; ing in Hospital to Her Proposal of Marriage ant His Suggestion That His .wife Relinquish Her ' Legal Hold On Him. - : - A romantic 20th century system of "double mating," to brighten the drabness and jazz tincture the tedium of the Osier years of 60 and beyond for the tired business and professional "man, is outlined and advocated by Dr. VV. 0. Henry, for mer Omaha surgeon, in his auto biography, just published. , The author shows no hesitancy in offering for public perusal a' de tailed account of intimate relations between himself, his wife and Miss Hazel Henderson, 23-year-old Oma , "ha nurse, whom he says proposed marriage to him. Dr. Henry, is t4 . and his former wife, recently granted a divorce at Los Angeles, Cal., is of approximately the same age. Quotes Biblical Authority. H quotes Biblical authority for his proposal Jo his wife to maintain two inates, -otic as a "mental plane companion," and , the other as a fleshly affinity of passion. His for mer wffe, he regretfully announces in .his autobiograpnic aciense, showed "some surprise" when he r announced the plan to her . and voiced objections. There is', much that is interesting, not to say '.'snappy," in the book. The chapter demoted to his relations with Miss Henderson and his part- ing from his wife is as follows: "About this time a "little nurse, Miss Henderson, some 20 years of age, was just finishing her course in the hospital, where 1 did much of A my "work, and who-had cared for me during a sick spell I had in the hospital, appealed to me for help. She was a beautiful, rosy-cheeked, ' blue-eyed, auburn-haired girl, of I jolly disposition and had many I beaux and admirers. "Her patients were always very fond of her and some of the doc tors and her men patients, as well as others, tried to lead her astray, and when I found out the condi tions and learned that her mother had died when she was only .3 years . ', old and that she had been driven fl irom piuar xo post wiwi no uc uu 4 " really took any interest in .her, I i . 1.,J !tis, t "l,ri'cti3n 1tfj v or help her develop a Christian f character. " - " , "And when I found ' that - her father, too, had died, and that she had made a public confession of faith in Christ and was trying as best she could to follow, the Master, knew the struggles she would have and the trials she would meet, and when, she appealed to me as one upon "whom she could depend, it was no effort on my part to decide , at once that any proper thing I Could do I would gladly do on her behalfJ ' Permitted No Bossing. "Being of Scotch blood, she would allow no one to boss her, and so had her up and downs with any who at tempted it. The. girl also assured me that I was the only person in the world who seemed to have a posi tive influence over' her for good and ; she urged me in her behalf to exer- , cise it in no uncertain way. ' ! ', "Just before her graduation' the i t. :t j :' . . nuoiidi uiaugcu t lb limiidgciuciik and its superintendent of nurses, which worked a special hardship on Miss Henderson, for they did not understand her and blamed her for some foolish pranks, like putting a few drops of croton oil in the soup of the superintendent of nurses, which laid her up for a few days. I j was forced to take very decided and , active measures to procure simple justice for her. After she had passed the examinations by the state board and had received her certificate, the manager undertook to keep her out ' of the hospital and from doing any k legitimate work there which wouW naturally and properly come to !er. " Of course, I championed her cause . again and she won out, as she had whenever I had helped her. Became Office Assistant ' Being in need of a surgical nurse and office assistant, I offered her . ahe position, which she gladly ac- .cepted, and became a valuable helper. The different boarding houses where : ' " : she lived proving very unsatisfactory. after talking with mjr . wife.we .de: cided to give her a room in our home v .'. and let her be our little girl (for we . . never had any children) and so she came to, live witn us. ; , "She was neat and tidy in her per ', son and in her room, so Mrs. Henry once said to me, Miss Henderson is the neatest and least troublesome person we have ever had about the house.' This is saying a good deal for one of my sisters had lived with . us quite a while, and my brother had lived with us while visiting, and we had given a home to other young teachers and other highly esteemed Christian women. , r "In the meantime Helen, for this was her given name, was always thinking of my comfort and trying to forestall my wants and meet rvrrv need in advance. "She spent her evenings with us, either doing fancy work which Mrs. Henry taught her, or at church and ' entertainments witn us, and was de veiooine. so tar as l could see, a ae : lightful Christian character, so that ; Mrs. Henry and I were proud of her and pleased with her deportment in i every way. Then Comes Proposal. "And now comes the startling and tragic part, for suddenly, without warning she with the deepest sim plicity, said she wanted to marry me. I found myself in a most deli cate situation. I had undertaken to be a kindly father to her, a friend ' and helper in 'the very things she most needed for this life and the life '' to come. Her 'soul, the immortal ' rart was the orize while training her v tor time and eternity-as God gave me life, I had become her ideal for a husband, her sweetheart' and lover. v "She had refused two good matches from a worldly standpoint be ' cause both men loved her and were . well able to provide her with a good liAni, nTithir man wst a f hn. tian and neither could or would help her in Christian character building. ''XfeS fjrij one. I jathjft advised her to refuse because of his lack of good character, althought he took well before the public. ,The other on was very wealthy and I am now ashamed to say I rather encouraged her to accept his offer of marriage. But he, too, she' refused, not being a Christian man, in fact being quite worldly, I should not have encour aged the engagement, and she was wiser than I for he could only have hindered her Christian life. I did not know much about the other men she turned down and took no part in the cases. "No man worthy of the name but would feel" proudly moved with this little girl's pleading. All of her little kindnesses, her thoughtful attention and evident affection were things I had all my life pined for, but never having had any children,, had been denied them. I have been of an af fectionate, tender nature, but could never secure my wife's co-operation in the tender and affectionate ca resses whjch I thought should go with married life. , Wife Lacked Affection. "Mrs. Henry was a very fine woman, a good housekeeper, a pleasant ' " companion, intellectual above the average, and a most loyal friend. But, like many girls and women, she was not of a deeply af fectionate nature, and her training had never brought her to see that the scriptural idea or marriage both in the old testament and in the new as taught by Jesus and His disciples meant oneness of flesh. '"They shall be no more twain, but one flesh,' said the Master. So that no matter how much two per sons might become alike in religion, politics, science, culture, or what not, when they become one in flesh, one body, then alone are they married, or real husband and wife. So that she was not so much to blame and moth ers should by all means teach their daughters this true meaning of mar riage if they would have them happy and properly willing to take their places as wives, and able to hold their husbands through fife as real lovers and sweethearts. - Scorned What Didn't Want "She was wise enough to refuse to marry the men she did not want even although in a worldly wise they have been- desirable and then she courageously went to the man who was her ideal and asked him to marry her. ..... "Every woman has just as good a right to choose and, ask for the one she wants for a life companion as a man has and our false and foolish customs have deprived good women of home and happiness and giv en evil homes and no homes. It was a brave thing for Miss Hender son to do but it was the right thing whether she was rejected or ac cepted. 5 ' "So I said to Tier: 'If you really love me, and need me, there is only one thing we can do. I must explain the matter to Mrs. Henry and she can get a divorce so that we can, marry,' under the laws of this state and then Mrs. Henry can come and live with us as a real member of the family and I will take care of her and you both, and we will be just as nice and fair to her as possible, and both'of us will do all we Can-to make her happy.' This is the only scriptural thing we can do and yet obey the laws of our country. Now if you can do that, I will marry you.' "To this she. readily agreed, and said this would make her. perfectly' happy, and as she was already very fond of Mrs. Henry and appreciated her so much she would be glad to have her in the family and treat her as a nieinber of it. "I took the matter up with Mrs. Henry and had a very frank and kindly talk with her. Although she was somewhat surprised and no doubt, keenly disappointed, yet she said she had been -treated most royally be me all these years and if she could not hold my love it was but fair to let another try it, and if I would pay her enough money so that she could be independent she would give me up to Helen. "An Unwilling Wife." "As for coming to live with us. she feared people would talk about it and make it unpleasant for us all. As a matter of fact, while Mrs. Henry has been so true a companion in many ways, she has ever been an unwilling wife and for some time not a wife at all from a Scriptural standpoint, as I have, shown in my pamphlet on this subject, so that in every real sense I was without a wife, and free to choose one at my discretion in a way to violate no law of state or God. And she could still be to me, and I could and would be to her, all I had ever been a good provider, loyal protector, and faith ful friend. Couldn't Co-Operate. . "She deeply regretted the training or, lack of training and instruction which mothers gave to their daugh ters on marriage' relations arid sex problems, but she did not feel called upon especially to help in public en lightenment which I felt we could to gether give by my proposed plan for us three. " " ' "After viewing the matter in .as careful a way intellectually, scien tifically, religiously and prayerfully as I knew how, I had no doubt but God had given me as positive and distinct a callto preach and teach these truths to the world as he had given to Jonah to. go to Nineveh and 'Preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee,' and I hoped Mrs. Henry would help me in every pos sible way. ' . ihe knew- my life, my work, my studies, my experience and the in most motives .of my soul better than any other human being, and I there fore had strong hopes that her laith in me and .loyalty to me, when I was trying to do my Master's will, would not fail and leave me in a very embarrassing position without the one human help that could have made it fairly easy. "I will do her this credit though, I believe that if she could have stood the taunts of her friends and fully real'ed the truth that I had not deceiml her and that I had not intended njr tried in any way to bring the situation about, she would have stood by me. "In other worda, I feel that if she had been .able to fully realize the truth of the situation she would have been loyal to me and to the word of God. Agree Upon Settlement "We then quietly agreed upon a settlement in which I gave her the bulk of my fortune that she might be independent and go where and when she pleased, but assured her that my new home would always be at her disposal and anything I could ever do for her would be done with the greatest pleasure.' "We parted in the most friendly way, and after cne year she applied for a divorce on the ground of de sertion. I may say, too, that even Helen showed her good sense and real love for me by urging me. to provide well for Mrs. Henry and that she 'herself would go out nurs ing if need be, for it was me and not my money she wanted." Hero Chaplain Dies as ' . Congress Medal Comes New Bedford, Mass., May 21. The Rev. Father John B. De Valles. hero chaplain of the One Hundred and ' Fourth United States infantry, died recently in St. Luke's hospital, where he was being treated for ill ness resulting from being gassed in the war. 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