A Mistaken Calling (1912)
Maggie, a cook, feels that she is born to write poetry and consults a phrenologist. Among the many knobs on Maggie's dome of intelligence he discovers one that reveals she will startle the world with her scribbling. Therefore, Maggie resigns her job and starts into poetry. Also she casts off her policeman lover, Officer 444. One morning she invades the office of a publishing house and, in the course of a few moments, has the editor on the floor by the hair while she pours her slush into his tortured ear. Officer 444 is summoned to arrest her, and the recognition is mutual. He gets her out on the street to the patrol box, but Maggie soon puts him to sleep by reading her poetry and flees, leaving one of verses attached to his uniform. Reduced to poverty and starvation, Maggie applies at an employment bureau and luckily is re-engaged by her former mistress on taking a pledge never to scribble again. On the way home Maggie runs across Professor Phreno, the bunk phrenologist who put her on the wrong track. What she does to him with her fists and umbrella is plenty, and is only sustained by the inevitable Officer 444, who sends her on her way. In closing we find "Phreno" humped over his chart, feeling the lump on his forehead and wondering over the fact that its location on the chart is signed "casualty."
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