The Fat Girl's Romance - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Hazekar Jones is the owner of a flour mill and a fine case of dyspepsia, also a daughter who is fair, fat and flirty. Squire Longlegs holds a mortgage on the mill and a large bunch of affection for Hazel. He compels Jones to make Hazel ...See moreHazekar Jones is the owner of a flour mill and a fine case of dyspepsia, also a daughter who is fair, fat and flirty. Squire Longlegs holds a mortgage on the mill and a large bunch of affection for Hazel. He compels Jones to make Hazel promise to be his wife, but Fate, in the shape of Sir Charles De High Ball, comes into the story. While hunting on horseback. Sir Charles shoots a duck. The horse runs away and throws Sir Charles into a tree. The duck hits the fair Hazel in the face. She swears revenge on the shooter. His strength exhausted, Sir Charles falls from the tree and smashes his funny bone. Hazel picks him up, takes him home and nurses him. They love each other, and one dark night Sir Charles elopes with Hazel, carrying her in a wheelbarrow. A tramp enters the minister's home and arrays himself in the minister's clothes. He is caught by Charles and Hazel, who compel him to marry them, thinking that he is the real thing. They live happily until one day the squire, wearing his fur coat, is mistaken by Sir Charles for a bear. Bing, bang, Sir Charles shoots, and the squire, raging with anger, chases him to his home. Discovered. The jealous squire goes and tells Sir Charles' papa and mamma. Mamma, being a real mother-in-law, breaks up their happy home. Hazel goes back to the old home and spends days pleading with her father to take her back. Sir Charles, warned by wireless telephone of Hazel's misery, comes to her aid. Enter the squire, accompanied by the real minister, who says the marriage was a fake, but, of course, we must have a happy ending, so the minister truly marries Hazel and Sir Charles. Furious, the squire jumps into the mill pond and Pa is sent about his business. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less