The Bouquet

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George Harris and his pretty wife have ceased to care very much for each other. George is indifferent and his wife sensitive and when the young husband realizes their strained relations he endeavors to revive the old love. However, his overtures of peace and his evident willingness to "make up" are not accepted and with a sigh he takes his hat and leaves the house. In the park he seats himself dejectedly on a bench, endeavoring to think of some plan through which he can win back his wife's love. Brooding over his troubles he does not notice the approach of two ladies, apparently mother and daughter, who sit down on the bench beside him. Through a slight accident, when the girl drops her book and Harris returns it, he starts a conversation, and the meeting ends with the young lady and he exchanging cards. Harris sets out to walk to his office, recalling pleasantly the happy meeting and wishing his wife were as sweet natured as the little lady he had just left. A desire to see the young girl again takes possession of him, but he resists the temptation to return to the park and compromises with a resolve to send her a box of flowers. At the florist's store be orders a great bouquet of roses and attached to the box a card bearing the name and address of the young lady. A messenger boy is hurried off to the address given and Harris goes on to his office. On the way the boy meets a few other young street Arabs and joins them in a game of "craps," but they are interrupted by a policeman and in the hurried getaway the boy loses the card. He returns to the florist's, but neither of them can recollect the name and address, when the florist seems to recall that the flowers were for Mrs. Harris. The petulant wife is surprised when she opens the flowers and finds they are from her husband, and at the end of the long day, when her husband has returned, she has made up her mind to give him more of her love. He finds her smiling and pleased and upon her explanation about the flowers, which, to him is at first a mystery, opens his arms and takes her to his heart.