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4211 ... "A RESERVIST, BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR "
A picture story of an exceptionally pathetic character, designed to excite public sympathy with the present condition of many men of the class portrayed. The Reservist is first shown in his comfortable home with his wife and children. Postman's knock, summons to bold himself ready for service ; grief of wife. Preparations for departure ; affecting leave taking. After the War: Same room, now empty of furniture, save one chair upon which the now haggard-looking wife sits nursing child who is ill. Reservist enters, after a fruitless search for work. In desperation goes out again and takes loaf from baker's barrow, runs home with it to his starving wife and children. He is chased by the baker and a policeman. The latter enters room and takes the reservist ; pleading with the policeman ; no avail, he has his duty to perform ; little boy comes forward and hands bread to policeman, '■ Take back the bread, but don't take away my dada." This melts the policeman, who takes the little buy on his knee, hands some money to the reservist to go and buy more food. This is a very brief account of the story, which is full of affecting little details most naturally enacted. Length 290 feet.
4216 ... SPRING CLEANING. A Domestic Comedy in Five Scenes.
An attempt has been made to represent the troubles and trials of the master of the house at this renovating season. The master is the first of all disturbed by the entrance of his wife, who brings the paper-hanger into the study to look at some patterns. He, evidently already put out at the household d'S arrangement, refuses to have anything to do with selecting the papers, and when a piece of plaster falls upon him from the ceiling, he jumps up very much upset, gathers up his papers, slams the desk and marches out to find another room. We next see him entering a room where a servant is taking up the carpet ; he trips at the door and sprawls over a roll of carpet, picking up a tack by the business end with his hand. The maid helps him up, pulls the tack out, and binds his hand up with his handkerchief. She advises him to tiy a room upstairs. With his books and papers in his arms he next enters a room where he sees what he requires — a table, a chair and an ink stand; he does not observe the maid on the steps behind him taking down a picture, and when he moves his chair back in his search for his pen, which he has probably dropped on the way, he knocks against the steps, and down comes the maid and the picture on the top of him. After gathering themselves up, the master, now getting angry, explains his previous mishaps to the girl, and bounces out of the room, forgetting his books and papers ; the maid picks these up and runs after him, We next see him backing into another room where paperhanging is going on, beckoning to the maid to bring them in there. Not looking where he is going, he rushes into a sheet of freshly-pasted paper which one of the men islanding up to the other, After disentangling himself,