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COMEDY.
strong is the craze thai children and all go about their busin< the merry little wheels, and the apartment is turned into a miniature skating rink. The bell rings, and Uncle Reuben is announced and joyfully received. He has a new experience in seeing his nephews and nieces careening around the room on skates, and desiring to emulate their example he obtains a pair, which he straps onto his unaccustomed feet, and at once the woe begins — extraordinary gyrations, fearful tumbles, comical falls, wrecked furniture, family dismay and much assistance from the old man, whose greatest wish is evidently to get Reuben safely out of the flat. And now, with but slight familiarity with his "understandings," Uncle Reuben is seen at the door, with a long flight of steps to negotiate before he reaches the sidewalk. Can he do it? He starts well, but, alas, a slip, and from top to bottom goes the unfortunate Reub, and it is a wonder that he reaches the bottom in an unbroken condition and is able to pick himself up and start on his travels.
Launched once more, his troubles (and other people's) begin again. An industrious card writer is overturned, table and apparatus. An unfortunate one-legged beggar is upset, and proves to be not quite as lame as supposed; but a climax is reached when two Irish ladies, who have met for a bit of gossip and are telling their troubles on the sidewalk, are run into, their story spoiled and their feelings disturbed by this last recruit of the skating craze.
Still hopeful and improving, Uncle Reub goes his way doing nicely, but two mischievous boys have placed a wheelbarrow in his pathway, over which he trips, and although he cleverly recovers himself, falls into an open basement near by, with force enough to exterminate any ordinary person.
Once more Uncle Reub emerges, and next is seen to forcibly separate a young man and his best girl, whose shoe lace he is gallantly tying, and although he is pursued he is skillful enough by this time to escape without much trouble. His next encounter is more serious. An Irish policeman is engaged in very earnest conversation with a lady of mature charms and buxom appearance, when our skater friend blunders into them and everybody is overturned. The "cop's" dignity suffers to an extent that can only be mitigated by a prompt arrest, and poor Uncle Reub is carried off to make his first acquaintance with a prison cell.
S. P. 2463-2470. ONE OF THE FINEST.
Approximate Length, 535 feet.
Price, $64.20.
a policeman's lot is not a happy one, but there arc opportunities for enjoyment and profit which this film illustrates, a policeman
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