Oh You Skeleton

• 1910
• Other, Comedy

Now, girls, if yon turned suddenly around and found a nice, gentlemanly skeleton seated comfortably beside you, would you scream or be too frightened to utter a sound? Now Martha, the new maid of all employed in a medical college, was content to juggle pans in the kitchen, but when brought face to face with the cold remnant of a past mortal, she lets out a noise that would fade the sound of a moving picture machine into insignificance, and rushes from the room only to be confronted by another and another, until Martha is a regular encyclopedia of all that is frightful. Composing herself long enough, she summons the officers, who are led to believe something bordering on a massacre has occurred, and hasten to the scene. The appearance of the skeleton cools their ardor and dampens the courage of the bluecoats and they join the merry stampede. Martha hits a street car for the tall and uncut, but our friend the skeleton bobs up again and a large hole in the car window marks the maid's hasty exit. Seeking refuge from her Nemesis, she lands in a room with no visible skeleton, but the news was too good to be true and poor Martha finds it necessary to imitate Halley's Comet and on the window marks her course, landing on a steep roof, tumbles into the bathing tank below and is only rescued with difficulty. Poor Martha had a hard time and has never reconciled herself to the association of skeletons.