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Essanay can safely claim for "The Little Straw Wife" an appeal that will clutch the heart strings of both old and young, the grave and gay. No matter how hardened the heart or how soured the life by the flings of fortune or the disloyalty of friends, a tenderness that will not be denied will gradually take possession of all who view these films, and eyes will be dimmed by a moistness that many will seek to hide from those who know them. And everyone will feel better for the experience, and go home with an old-time freshness and gladness of heart. Director Joseph Byron Totten has excelled in this production. He has put his whole heart into the work and can rest satisfied that others will be able to see and feel this. Not a single false note disturbed the harmony of the visualization of the story so far as I was able to judge or discern. And I can add that the settings were fitting and revealed nice care and painstaking. - The Moving Picture World, April 3, 1915