- Mr. Cherub is believed to be a model husband and ideal citizen. But his behavior in private does not correspond with his public image.
- Mr. Cherub is considered by all the world to be a model husband. Housewives hold him up as a shining example to their husbands. In truth, however, Mr. Cherub is anything but a virtuous husband. He mistreats his wife and orders her around like a slave. As for liquor, it is true enough that he never saw the inside of a saloon, and pretends to be an apostle of grape juice and pasteurized milk. But he makes up his continence on the sly, by enjoying every once in a while a few teaspoons full of a cough medicine, which is really nothing else than Scotch Strong. The Prohibitionists, however, know nothing of all that. So highly do they think of him that they determine unanimously to nominate him for Mayor. They send a committee to his home to bring him the good tidings. Unfortunately he is just engaged in a pleasant altercation with his wife concerning the food, the affair reaching its climax in a crockery duel. But when Mr. Cherub sees the committee approach his home he loses no time in patching up things and grouping himself, his wife and his children into a touching picture of family affection, which fairly brings tears to the eyes of the committee. The ladies on the committee urge Mrs. Cherub to communicate to them by what ways and means she has succeeded in making as perfect a husband as Mr. Cherub. Her good cooking, Mrs. Cherub replies, turned the trick. Unfortunately, one of the Prohibitionists pays a visit to Mr. Cherub's office just as the latter is out, and, being attacked with a fit of coughing, is helping himself to Mr. Cherub's cough medicine. This is the first step towards Cherub's downfall. A special committee of investigation is organized and surprises him in a very embarrassing position. A young girl, who is really the sweetheart of this model of a husband, he introduces to them as his sister. The cough medicine he explains away on the ground that it was but so much bay rum, of which he made use after shaving. The committee decides to interrogate him as to his sister. The truth comes out with a vengeance. She reveals to them her entire life and packs up her things, firmly resolved to leave him. When Mr. Cherub enters matters come to a domestic crisis. In spite of entreaties Mrs. Cherub rushes away with her children.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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