Imagination (1910)
Tom Perkins, so our story goes, is a physical culturist and the results of his careful training in abstinence from coffee, liquor and tobacco, with the daily cold bath and vigorous rub, has made him egotistical about it. His robust health and how he obtained it is usually the substance of his conversations with his friends until they tire of being constantly shamed for the flabbiness of their muscles and shortness of breath and the other ills that flesh is heir to. Tom, in taking his morning constitutional, meets an old friend who is slightly under the weather and for whom he prescribes a daily four mile walk, a cold bath and a rundown is a positive cure-all. They are standing in front of a café and Tom invites his friend in to have a little drink of something soft. They enter the café and meet other friends. "Why, brace up there," says Tom to one of the boys, slapping the latter vigorously on the back, "you're getting round shouldered. Look at me. Physical culture did it!" Three fellows at the other end of the bar nudge each other and quietly steal out of the café, resolved to get even with Tom in some way or another. "It's an easy thing," says one, "Let one of us tell him he's looking bad: another fellow can meet him down the street and tell him he's looking worse, while the third fellow can tell him he ought to be in bed. If that don't fix him nothing will!" They agree to the scheme and one fellow is left at the saloon entrance while the other two select positions further down the street. Also, they enlist the aid of a friendly "cop" and two ladies who are acquainted with the victim, with the result that he is really feeling ill when the two ladies, last named, stop him and comment upon his wan face and general physical decrepitness. Tom turns away unsteadily and looks at his tongue in a small hand-glass, wiping the perspiration from his brow. A climax is reached when he sees his wife and daughter just leaving a florist's with a great armful of flowers. Poor Tom is convinced that the flowers are for his funeral. He is sent home in a cab and put to bed. A doctor is summoned and accompanies the three jokers into the house. The doctor finds that Tom is very ill indeed, ahem, and doses him with some very bitter but harmless medicine. Rut the boys' laughter and finally the doctor's confession cures the patient instanter. With a howl of rage at being fooled he springs from the bed and in his pajamas chases the jokers through the snow. The picture ends with the sick one (?) whipping them all and stalking proudly away, the complete victor.
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