- A struggling painter marries a struggling pianist. They have rosy imaginations, but are short of funds. She pretends to have a rich pupil. He pretends to be making sales while sketching in the park.
- Joe Larrabee came out of the Middle West pulsing with genius for pictorial art. Delia Caruthers did things in six octaves so promisingly in a village of the South that her relatives chipped together to send her North to finish. Joe and Delia met in a studio where students of music and art gathered. They married. They continued their studies under high priced masters until their money gave out. She decided to give music lessons and went out several days to look for pupils. Regretting the necessity for this step by his wife, Joe made new efforts to sell some of his art. One evening they both came home elated. Delia had found a delightful pupil. Clementina, daughter of General Pinkney, on 71st Street, three lessons a week at $5 per lesson. Joe about this time decided to do some early morning sketches in Central Park, so they breakfasted early. On Saturday night Delia, proud but languid, produced three crisp five dollar bills and many details about her pupil and her home. Joe then produced $15. "Sold that watercolor of the obelisk to a man from Peoria," he tells the proud little wife. One night Joe gets home first. Delia comes in with her hand in bandages and tells him that Clementina insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson and had spilled boiling hot water over her hand. Tenderly Joe undoes the bandages to see the hurt. He asks a question about the time she had burned it when the soft cotton waste came from around the burn. Then the question direct, "What have you been doing the last two weeks, Delia?" She tries to fib further, but gives it up and confesses that she has been ironing shirts in a laundry. Joe in turn confesses that he has sold no pictures and that he has been firing the engine in the same laundry for two weeks, and that at five o'clock he had sent up this oiled waste cotton for a girl who had been burned with an iron in the laundry.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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