Never Eat Green Apples

• 1909
• Other, Comedy

Mrs. Hawtrey is passionately fond of fruit and keeps a supply in her room. On arising she munches an apple while her maid prepares the bath. That morning ceremony concluded, she prepares to have her hair dressed, but she has been too impatient to await the ripening of the apples and the green fruit begins to exhibit the usual result, in a few momenta she is in agony and the terrified maid wildly screams for help. The pains increase and Mrs. Hawtrey adds her cries to those of the maid. The household is alarmed and even passers-by pause before the house in the belief that a murder is being committed. The attention of the police is attracted and there is a hurry call for the ambulance. All the time the pain grows greater and the advent of the surgeon is hailed with joy by the anxious husband and a score of friends. He prescribes the application of a hot water bag and in a few moments the expressions of agony give place to relief and the grateful patient passes the apples about to the others, who accept the fruit, but, warned by her example, they do not eat.