His Wife’s Mother
Jones’s mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.
Jones’s mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones’s pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge quarrel erupts.
A Gilbert M. Anderson film directed by , released in 1909.

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and…

Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he’s gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the police, he restages the…


If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story. If they have not, perhaps it will be a warning to them to watch very carefully the birthdays and…
Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man’s hat in the parlor.