Once Every Ten Minutes (1915)

Mrs. Nagg is an ardent devotee of the great indoor sport of "frisk the jeans." On this occasion the usual bank-note is replaced by a "bill" et doux, and Mrs. Nagg's uninteresting husband suddenly assumes importance as a villainous trifler. Nagg gets specific orders to 'phone his wife once every ten minutes from his office, to assure her his time is being well spent. Hubby goes out with every intention of obeying instructions, and for fully five minutes after leaving his home doesn't look at a woman. This is because there are no women to look at, but Nagg feels noble while he may. He is only a poor creature of impulse, however, and when a lovely goddess approaches, forgets his injunctions with regard to his promised "once every ten minutes" communication, and goes kiting off with the new love. Her "regular" comes upon them, and a most ludicrous battle ensues, the ardent Nagg managing to get hit harder and oftener than his adversary. Our hero makes off with the girl, and arrives at his office, suddenly remembers he has not called his wife in an hour and a half. He has more important things to do, though, and delegates the job to his office boy. It's a job the office boy has never trained for, however, and Mrs. Nagg soon understands. She wastes no time getting to her dear husband's office, where she discovers his frightful lapse, and after rather a stormy scene with her rival, shows the idol of her worship a woman's understanding of connubial felicity.