For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! (1911)
Paul Wharton, a young business man, arises from his breakfast table, and kissing his wife and baby good-bye, starts to leave the house, when Mrs. Wharton stops him and curiously asks him if he knows the day of the month. Doubtfully, he looks at the morning papers in his hand and replies that it is August 18. With indifference he turns to the door and goes out after she begs him to come home early in the evening. It is her birthday, but he has forgotten! That evening, in his office, he closes his desk and is about to leave when four or five of his friends enter and beg him to join them in a little party at a nearby garden that night. He consents, then remembers his promise to his wife and calls her on the 'phone, pleading important business which must detain him at the office. That night the baby becomes ill and Mrs. Wharton begs the doctor to call in the morning. As she turns from the 'phone, Wharton, a little worse for liquor, enters. The wife begs to know why he did not come home, but his answer is evasive and he goes silently off to his bed-chamber. In the morning the doctor calls, but too late to save the child's life. Just as the little one expires, Wharton enters, and realizing what has happened he falls beside the baby's cot and begs forgiveness for his neglect of his family.
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