Everybody's Wearing Them

27 de agosto de 1913    8minComedia, Short
Sally, who loves Willie, is partial to whiskers. The grocery boy, having a sprouting beard, she momentarily transfers her affections to him. Willie, who has seen his new rival embrace Sally, drives him away from the house. He finds the circular which the latter has left, lauding the virtues of a hair producer and determines to buy some of the nostrum. More especially since Sally tells him that the man she marries must have a beard, Willie finds the demonstrator of the fluid, and takes his turn in the line of young men who are anxious to grow beards. The mothers of the youths angrily drag their respective offspring away. Willie, however, has succeeded in purchasing a bottle of hair grower and conceals it under his coat as his mother leads him away, and succeeds in surreptitiously applying some of the fluid before reaching home. Willie is sent to work at the woodpile, and Sally teases him about his lack of hirsute charms. Left alone, Willie uses more of the liquid, and just then his mother again appears for wood. He hides the bottle in a hollow log. The mother gathers the log, along with several others, and carries it into the house. Willie follows her in suspense, and as she is about to put the log containing the bottle into the stove, he pretends to have a toothache. He goes to the cupboard and taking the label from the bottle of liniment there, secures the hair grower during his mother's absence and substitutes the liniment label for the tonic label, secreting the hair grower bottle in the cupboard, Willie's mother returns, and getting the supposed "liniment" bottle from the cupboard, she vigorously applies same to Willie's face and bandages up his jaw. He resists his mother's attempts to remove the bandage later, fearing the whiskers may have appeared. He secures a hand mirror, and going out to the woodpile, takes a look at his face and sees the whiskers sprouting. Sally, on her way to join the grocery boy in a buggy ride, refuses to notice Willie. As she is about to start off, Willie undoes the bandage about his face, disclosing a full beard. Sally sees this, and jumping from the buggy, embraces Willie, leaving the grocery boy to drive away alone. Sally and Willie enter the yard, when the mother, not recognizing her son, tries to drive them away. Finally she sees who it is and scolds him. She discovers the supposed bottle of hair grower and throws it from the window. A number of children find it and proceed to rub it on their faces. Sally comes on and takes the bottle from the children. She is about to enter the house, when she sees his mother desecrating Willie's pet whiskers with a pair of scissors. Entering the house, the mother complains of toothache and takes the supposed bottle of liniment from the cupboard and rubs it on her face. Soon the whiskers sprout on her face. She looks in the glass and is horror-struck at the sight of a beard appearing. She throws the bottle out of the window. In the meantime, the demonstrator, Mlle. Spinach has ceased selling hair restorer and now sells hair remover. The parents of the children eagerly purchase the latter, and Sally also secures a bottle to remove her mother's whiskers. She returns to the house to find that Willie's whiskers have again grown, and together they go to the mother and promise to give her the hair remover if she will allow them to marry. The mother consents.

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