Curing a Jealous Husband (1909)

Mr. Newlywed is of a very jealous disposition, and thus makes his darling little wife most unhappy. He kicks the ice man out of the house, he fights the milk man, he gets after the letter carrier and even cools his temper on the garbage collector. In her despair, the young wife invites her friend to come and help her cure her jealous husband. The young lady arrives and the two at once lay out a plan to effect a sure cure. A dummy of a man is made and the same placed in the wardrobe of the sleeping room. The next morning the young wife flirts with the ice man. The husband appears and is furious. Imagine his surprise when the ice man is a great big fellow, and instead of punishing the ice man, Mr. Newlywed gets a good trouncing. The same happens to him by the milk man, by the coal man and by the garbage collector. The young lady having ordered big, strong men to do the delivering on this particular day. Not enough with these lessons, the young wife pretends to have received a male visitor. She runs up to the bed room, stands before the wardrobe and refuses her husband to open the wardrobe. Now he is sure of the presence of a man in the house, he opens the wardrobe, the dummy falls into his arms. He wrestles with the intruder until the dummy falls apart and he sees he has been made the target of his wife's and her friend's wit. He apologizes and from all appearances he is cured forever of his jealousy.

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GenresComedy Short