The Wise Druggist (1911)
Tom Lyte and his wife, Vera, are the happiest couple in existence, until trouble starts when he and Tom Rand attend a bargain sale of overcoats and purchase a coat apiece. Shortly after this, in their hurry to leave the office Lyte gets Rand's coat, and Rand puts on Lyte's. The next morning Tom and Vera have a most enjoyable breakfast, interspersing their eating with kisses, which delays Tom, and in his hurry he forgets all about his overcoat. Vera discovers it and tries to call him back but is too late and returning to the house, handles the coat rather carelessly, when a bundle of love letters drops from one of its pockets. Almost prostrated by the apparent evidences of her husband's perfidy, she decides to commit suicide. She tries several means for doing so, but the thoughts grow so unpleasant to her that she gives them up. As a last resort she decides upon poison. The druggist diagnoses her case instantly, and provides her with a little bottle of powdered sugar. Hastening home, she decks herself in her wedding gown, and finally succeeds in swallowing a goodly portion of the sugar, and then wisely telephones poor hubby of her deed. Tom Lyte rushes home, seizes the bottle, takes it to the drug store, and begs for an antidote. The druggist explains the nature of the dose, and in order to illustrate its harmlessness takes some himself. Tom returns home relieved and happy, but proceeds to teach his wife a lesson. He bids her a long farewell, and takes a dose of the alleged poison himself, she using every means in her power to prevent him. After thoroughly frightening his wife. Tom explains the joke to her, and rubs the balance of the sugar into her face, then telling her he can no longer live with a woman so jealous, he starts to leave. She seizing him by the coat tails, drags him back into the room and begs his pardon. Of course he forgives her. When Tom Rand comes to regain his coat, the young couple tender him a very warm reception, and after beating him over the head with his own coat, etc., etc., they drive him into the street.
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