Wifie's New Hat (1911)
Strange indeed were the events which first threatened to disrupt the happy home of Will Lewis and his wife, and later on saved all their worldly wealth. It started when Grace wanted a certain hat. It was a cheap thing, cosign only fifty dollars, but Will did not want her to have it, and refused to give her the money to buy it. Cruel man! The abused woman thereupon wrote to her father, and father sent her the money. Now when Will saw her wearing the hat, he became extremely jealous, suspecting that some other man had bought it for her. He was on the way to the millinery shop to verify his dread suspicions, when he learned his mistake. At the same time, a friend informed him that the bank in which he had his account was on the verge of failure. Will rushed to the bank and withdrew his money, getting over fifty thousand dollars in bills and securities. This he took home and placed in the safe. Soon after he had done this, Grace returned. So fearful that something might happen to her new bonnet, she looked around for a place to put it. Ah! The safe. She opened it. Finding many bundles of bills and securities, she took them out and put them in a drawer of the desk, thus making room in the safe for her hat. That night burglars broke in, cracked the safe, and found only the hat. In their rage, they tore it to pieces. Just as they were leaving, Will heard a noise. Hurrying from his bedroom, he was horrified to find the safe open and all his money and valuables gone, He was almost insane when his wife arrived. Grace fell to weeping over her ruined hat. Will pointed out the fact the fifty thousand dollars, their entire fortune, had been stolen. "Oh, no it hasn't," said Grace. "I put that money in this drawer to make room for my hat." And there, indeed, were all the precious packages of greenbacks and yellow backs, bonds and stocks untouched. There certainly was some joy in the Lewis home, and Will declared that Grace should have enough money to buy twenty hats if she wanted it.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
