Late for the Recital

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Professor Boreeno is at his home composing some difficult masterpiece, while his daughter and her best beloved sit together, only wishing that papa would make himself scarce. His daughter knows he has an engagement to play at a concert and is looking forward to a nice afternoon with her admirer. They help the old man on with his coat and bid him a happy good-bye, but hardly has he been gone ten minutes before he is back looking for a roll of music which his daughter, thinking some old scrap paper, has thrown in the basket. The daughter's beau has to make a hasty exit out of the window, as her father has forbidden her to entertain young men unless he is at home. During the young fellow's enforced occupancy of the balcony he sees a curious female hanging out of her window and immediately begins flirting with her. The woman, pleased with the youth's attention, throws him out a sheet, which he catches and by means of which he climbs to her apartment. He is having a nice little visit with his new acquaintance, who is entertaining him with her violin, when a knock comes to the door and he has to jump out of the window again in a hurry. Who should the intruder be but papa, the professor, who, with his usual luck, has met with an accident on his way to the recital, in which his fine old violin is smashed to smithereens by an automobile running at full speed. Knowing the lady to be an amateur violinist, he has come in his distress to borrow her fiddle. She gives it to him and then goes to call her admirer back; but the latter has taken advantage of this opportunity to go down the improvised ladder to see his lady love below. She is overjoyed to see him and they are billing and cooing when papa comes on the scene again; he was just two hours late for the concert, so he has been discharged and comes in very much depressed in spirits. While he stands ringing at the door, dejection written all over him, the beau is quickly gotten into one of the maid's dresses and with an automobile veil tied around his head begs for alms as the master of the house enters; and the daughter, with pity in her voice, makes her father give the poor "woman" a generous donation.