The story
“Every time Flora tests the scales she finds her weight has increased. At last she drops an Indian club out of the window on the gardener’s head. His hose slews around, the stream of water hits Flora’s husband, who fights the gardener, the gardener loses a job, and the husband gains a cold—but poor Flora is not deprived of a single fraction of a pound. Flora reads an article explaining that the way to ‘shed fat and acquire a figure’ is to ‘dress on the floor, work on the floor, and eat and sleep on the floor.’ Flora has all the furniture moved out of the house. Horrified neighbors have her arrested. At the door of the jail she meets her husband. He is accused of wrecking an auto tire with a plate. Flora’s husband proves that it was all the fault of his wife. Nevertheless, both are locked up. Flora rejoices. Prison fare, she has heard, is very bad, and she is happy in the belief that life behind the bars will train her down.”
Summary from Reel Life · 25 December 1915
