A Personal Matter (1910)
Our hero Henry has been into mischief again, as we arc informed when he does a few capers over a certain personal advertisement which he has clipped from the newspaper. This item reads: "Will gentleman in light checked suit, white derby hat, Main Street car, Tuesday afternoon, meet lady in pink at the fountain in the park, Wednesday at 4 o'clock?" Now, Henry was the chap who had met the lady on the Main Street car at the time specified in the note and he recalls now with joyous recollection that happy meeting. However, further than this we are not told what occurred, but the case is clear. Henry is wanted to be seen again by this fair lady. Mrs. Henry comes into the room as Henry is clipping the item from the paper and notes with suspicion his happy smile. She demands an explanation and he gives it to her in the statement that he has just discovered a bargain in his choice Havana cigars. This satisfies his wife for a time and Henry hies himself off to the bedroom to make ready for the meeting in the afternoon. Dragging out his checked suit and derby hat, he hurries to the kitchen, puts an iron on the stove, and proceeds to make creases in his trousers. His wife, however, is unable to contain her suspicions and goes out to purchase a newspaper which contains the personal. During her absence Henry busies himself fixing up his clothes, but as he is in the midst of this process the telephone bell rings and he marches out to answer it. While he is gone a tramp steals into the kitchen, purloins the suit, the derby hat and other of Henry's attire and makes away with them. Henry returns and finds the suit gone, and realizing that he cannot now keep the appointment, he dons his business suit and goes to his office. The tramp in the meantime has found the personal in the coal of the light checked suit and resolves to keep his appointment with the lady himself. But at the appointed time Mrs. Henry comes on the scene and what follows is sad to relate for the tramp. Henry has come on the scene and rescues his frustrated wife from the police, after she has discovered that the gentleman in the checked suit is not her inconstant Henry. The tramp thief, however, does not get away so easily, and after restoring the clothes to Henry he is taken away by various officers of the law.
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