The Golf Game and the Bonnet (1913)
John is commanded to return home immediately after office hours to help his wife beat the rugs, but it is Saturday and his friend Smith won't take his refusal to go to the country club for a game of golf. John tries to make excuses, but Smith is reinforced with several friends, who pile John into their car and rush him off to the links. John is a novice at the game and loses more than his golf balls on the course, but the few times he hits the elusive pellet fill him so with pride that he soon forgets all about Wifey in the whirl of the play. He is sorely grieved, however, when he gets a black eye from a flying ball. Besides the discomfort, he fears that he will get an awful upbraiding when his wife sees his eye. Smith comforts him as best he can and on the way home induces John to buy a new bonnet for his wife. He purchases the bonnet, but realizes that even it will not make his wife believe whatever he tells her. When he and Smith reach John's domicile, they sneak toward the back entrance and there find John's wife out in the back yard beating the rug. Smith, the ingenious, has an idea. John gleefully admits that it is a fine one. He sneaks in back of the rug, and just as his wife gives the rug a vicious swat, John gives a howl of pain and starts to run toward the house. His wife stops him. He shows her the hat and says, "I bought you the hat. I had to wait until they put clean trimmings on it, then you black my eye!" She makes many apologies for her accidental strike and takes John indoors, where she has the maid bring him cigars and his slippers and fixes him up comfortably in a large armchair. John smiles covertly as he realizes the brilliance of Smith's scheme.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| George D. Baker | Director |
| George Kerr O'Neill | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| John Bunny | |
| Flora Finch | |
| Wally Van | |
| Richard Leslie |
