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COMEDY.
nothing daunting, takes up the battle with the representative of the law. Finally subdued, the helmet is found to have acquired a permanent location, and no efforts will so much as budge it. The lad is led to his home, and after the excitement there subsides mother and son move on down the street in quest of aid. A merchant is consulted, and after vain effort, in which his immaculate white vest is much soiled by the soot of the improvised helmet, he angrily protests against the infringement upon his time. Passing on down the street a boiler shop is visited, and the men are about to proceed to remove the honorary decorations of the lad by means of chisel and hammer when the mother frantically interferes. The boy now becomes excited, and rushing into the first door he reaches seeking assistance he upsets a tonsorial artist with his chair and patron, is evicted, and after colliding with a portly gentleman, who becomes enraged at the brutality of the attack made upon him, all are bundled off to the station. One of the officers now proceeds to direct efforts to free the captive and succeeds, whereupon the portly gentleman attempts to administer a flogging, and mother and police soon take a hand in the melee. This subsiding, mother and son depart for home. Especially interesting for the boys.
G. D. 1684. NURSE'S TRAVELS. Price, $41.64.
Approximate Length, 347 feet.
This is a film of good photographic quality, with very good cloud effects throughout. It is interesting and amusing to follow the story as pictorially presented, the beautiful scenery and panoramas, however, are of no interest to the distinguished traveler, the nurse, who is all anxiety lest her frail and uncomfortable craft lose its buoyancy and she be doomed to a watery grave. As if by a miracle she is saved from this fate, only to encounter what appears to be a worse fate. Luckily, however, her life is spared, and in the end the reminiscences of her experiences, in the light of the final outcome, are quite agreeable.
The story is that of a well-to-do merchant employing a nurse to care for his four-year-old daughter. While taking the little one for a constitutional one day the little toy balloon becomes loosened from its moorings at the foot of the perambulator and rises to a point under the branches of overhanging shade trees. Placing the child on the green sward, she uses the vehicle to enable her to reach the balloon, when unfortunately her weight causes the vehicle to move forward down an incline, with the nurse seated therein. Soon it reaches the road, and gaining momentum it fairly snorts along its course, plunging both vehicle and occupant into a river, the swift-flowing current of which carries her on, past most beautiful scenery. Her frantic screams and wild manoeuvres fail to attract the attention of passing craft, and she is apparency
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