A Pair of Slippers (1909)
Cupid loves a good joke occasionally and in this picture Ralph Lubber is the chosen goat. Lubber buys a pair of dainty slippers for his lady love and on his way to deliver them stops to see an old friend, Mr. Rex. Rex is alone, Mrs. Rex having left to visit a friend, leaving implicit instructions that hubby is not to stir from the house until she returns. Rex is delighted to see his old friend Lubber, but their chat is interrupted by the ringing of the telephone. Rex answers it; someone wants Lubber at his office immediately. Lubber, explaining that he will be back in an hour, hurries out, leaving the box containing the slippers on Rex's writing table. A short time after Lubber leaves. Rex becomes lonely, jumps resolutely into his hat and coat and leaves the house, despite Mrs. Rex's inunction. Mrs. Rex comes in immediately after, finds the slippers and the impersonal but highly colored note accompanying them. "Dearest Anna: Accept this little gift as a token of my love. Hope they are the right size. Your Sweetheart." Mrs. Rex's indignation knows no bounds. So Rex has been deceiving her, the brute! A happy thought comes to her and she sets about to have revenge on her supposed rival. She removes the dainty slippers and puts in their place a pair of old, worn-out shoes belonging to Rex. An hour later Lubber returns and unobserved enters the Rex library, gets his parcel and is again on his way to the home of his affinity. The parcel is delivered by the maid, the box opened, and ''Dearest Anna," stung by the insult in the rude joke, hurries down to personally demand an explanation. Lubber is thunderstruck. His sweetheart throws the shoes at him and runs out of the room. Let us return to Rex. He has returned and his Wife is berating him for his unfaithfulness. Rex tries to explain, but the irate little woman will suffer no explanation. In the meantime, like a man, Lubber has taken things into his own hands and forced his beloved to give him a moment's hearing. He is sure that Rex has played the joke on him and if Anna will but accompany him to the Rex home a satisfactory explanation will no doubt be obtained. They arrive at the Rex home in the midst of the mêlée and poor Rex is rescued. Explanations follow. "All's well that ends well," and the affair ends in a hearty laugh.
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