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COMEDY.
slams the door. The man, nothing daunted, goes on, and purchasing some flowers, returns. In the meantime the woman, who is met by her husband, enters and locks her flat, while the husband passes down through a trap door into the cellar. The enamored individual now enters the building, and receiving no response to his knock, passes on to the second floor Here his knock is answered by a demure little widow, who promptly accepts the proffered flowers, when they are snatched from her grasp again, and the man passes to the next flat. There the maid ushers him in, and we soon see him coming out pell mell with the professor at his heels. Rushing to
the floor above, he meets a like fate, and on the top floor the janitor's wife administers a good trouncing for his audacity and starts him down the stairs head first. He gains such a momentum that as he strikes each successive landing he simply turns a somersault and continues his descent Just as he is to land on the first floor the trap door opens part way, and he crashes onto it, breaking it in pieces, and with the unfortunate husband of the object of his adoration he goes down into the cellar. By means of a rope the latter is first taken out, and then the former, still mounted in the head of a barrel, into which he crashed, is brought to light, just as his affinity opens the door of the first flat.
G. D. 1623.
THE UNION SPOILS THE FOOD. Approximate Length, 526 feet.
Price, $63.12.
This illustrates the unsatisfactory conditions prevailing during a strike, and graphically portrays the despondency to which a Parisian couple is driven for the want of food. Ordering supplies for home use they find them spoiled; going to a restaurant, the same is experienced. A suit of clothes sent to a tailor shop for repairs is ruined, the silk hat sent to be re-ironed is demolished. Going to a barber shop for a shave, the man is frightfully mutilated. Driven to despondency by these conditions, and with starvation staring them in the face, the man attempts suicide by drowning, and only through the greatest effort on the part of his wife is he persuaded to desist from this course. Returning to their room they form a death pact, and promptly stuff the crevices and proceed to carry out their plan for death by asphyxiation, when, in answer to a summons, the door is again opened and a package is received. Upon opening this it is found to contain a supply of unspoiled food, with a note of explanation advising that, understanding the existing conditions, a friend in another city makes this offering to assist them to maintain their existence.
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