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An Advertisement Answered (1910)
Short | Short, Comedy

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An Advertisement Answered (1910)

Short | Short, Comedy

Young Robert Karl, a prosperous farmer, is a bachelor, good looking, but, who, up to this time has overlooked the subject of matrimony. In the beginning of the picture we have a view of the laborers and hands returning from the field when ...See moreYoung Robert Karl, a prosperous farmer, is a bachelor, good looking, but, who, up to this time has overlooked the subject of matrimony. In the beginning of the picture we have a view of the laborers and hands returning from the field when they are met by their wives and children. Young Karl watches them go down the road, all happy and contented, and he sighs for just these sort of companions to fill the void in his life. He is further induced to try a hand at matrimony when he has finished with his supper, cooked by himself, and the washing of the dishes, done by himself. Therefore, straightway after he has finished his household work he writes a note to a city paper requesting them to print a personal in the matrimonial want ad column, requesting a wife. A day or two later he receives a dozen or more letters from certain ladies all anxious to be his wife. The number of letters confuses him and as a final mode of solving the problem, he writes a letter to each, seals and addresses them and then, shuffling them up, closes his eyes and selects one at random. Satisfied with this he goes out and sends one of the hands in for the letter which he wishes mailed. The hand becomes confused and takes the bunch of letters, unconscious that he is implicating his employer in a rather disagreeable predicament. The next day young Earl goes to the train to meet the elected bride. She arrives, a dozen of her. Karl sees that something is wrong and beats a hasty retreat with the bunch of women at his heels. The pursued and pursuers do a marathon through meadows, orchards, woods, until the young farmer is exhausted. He finally reaches home and runs in, but the foremost and most athletic of the ladies follows him into the kitchen, pleading with him to have her. He looks at her face, then jumps out of the window. She follows and the rest of the mob, having caught up, join in the pursuit. Out through the orchard they go when young Earl espies an apple tree which seems to offer refuge. He quickly climbs into the branches but Miss Athlete is not teased by this and goes on up after him as actively as a polar bear. The hunted farmer drops to the ground and is seized by the ladies, each demanding that he marry her, according to the invitation she has received. Now it happens there is a little lady, who had always brought up in the rear of the chase and who was even now lingering in the background, and it is she with her dreamy eyes under the lace bonnet who Robert deigns to smile upon. "You are the one," he says, freeing himself from the rest. And the little girl is led off timidly while Karl's other farmhands hold back the infuriated feminine husband seekers. Two years later we have a pretty scene at Robert's home. Things have changed. Mrs. Karl and the baby have filled that empty void in his heart and he is a happy and contented man. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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