Genre Comedy

Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby,…

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing…

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year’s Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very…

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses’ residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch ‘the acting bug’ in this split-reel subject.

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…