Baldy Belmont Wanted a Wife
Directed by Phillips SmalleyBaldy Belmont and his friend kept bachelor apartments. Baldy is tired of eating and cooking and when he sees Martha Blodgett's ad in the newspaper for a husband he responds. She calls on the bachelors. When Baldy sees the wizened old maid he beats a hasty retreat. His friend is cooking his meal and Martha enters. She finishes the meal for him. In taking her kerchief from her pocketbook, his friend notices her bank book, which she accidentally drops. He makes love to her and after tasting her cooking he proposes marriage. Baldy returns and when he sees the fine meal his friend is enjoying and learns that Martha cooked it, he begins to regret his hasty action in so quickly judging the merits of Martha as a wife from her looks. He also discovers her bank book and the amount written therein as being to her credit and hastens to try to make amends. He finds that Martha and his friend have gone, but awaits their return. When they do return and Baldy is introduced to Martha as his friend's wife, he is in a state of collapse. He goes out into the garden and induces a boy to shoot the water hose at him to cool his rising anger and ardent love.
