Will It Ever Come to This (1911)
Mrs. and Mr. Sarah Jane Brown, note the names, are a married couple of 1920. They first appear in the Brown dining room, where Mr. Brown enters from the kitchen with a tray and puts breakfast on the table. One of the Brown girls slaps one of the Brown boys, a timid creature of 13, and makes the poor dear cry. Mrs. Brown, dressed in a very masculine costume, comes in, sits down at the table and pours her coffee. Mr. Brown waits on her, tremblingly. She tries to cut the meat, but it is too touch. She declares the coffee is cold, gets angry and scolds Mr. Brown. That poor man bursts into tears and flees to the kitchen. Mrs. Brown rises angrily, takes her overcoat and Derby and goes out, slamming the door. We next see Mrs. Brown at her office, where she is very attentive to a lady-like young man, her stenographer. We see her at the club, smoking and playing cards with others of her kind. We see Mr. Brown at home making beds, sweeping, washing the clothes, hanging them out and gossiping over the back fence with another man who is similarly employed. We see Mr. Brown "up against" a problem that troubles some present-day women. He stops his wife, one morning, just as she is leaving for the office, shows her his worn-out clothes and shoes and pleads with her for money to get new ones. Mrs. Brown laughs and snaps her fingers and goes out, slamming the door and leaving poor Mr. Brown in tears. Then, dear, sweet, Willie Brown is wooed and won by a handsome young woman, whom his mother brings home and introduces, and the scene closes with the wedding bells ringing merrily for the young woman and her blushing bridegroom.
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