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Roberts, who has grown corpulent to an unsightly and uncomfortable degree, pays a visit to the doctor and is advised that an abnormal amount of exercise will reduce his weight. Roberts purchases a load of flesh reducers in the form of ...See moreRoberts, who has grown corpulent to an unsightly and uncomfortable degree, pays a visit to the doctor and is advised that an abnormal amount of exercise will reduce his weight. Roberts purchases a load of flesh reducers in the form of fencing swords, boxing gloves, a punching dummy, etc. Hardly are the reducers inside the house when Roberts, ably assisted by his sympathetic friend and trainer, Horner, begins to raze things in general, including flesh and various handsome vases and bric-a-brac. The dummy is the target for all of the well-directed blows of the two, but she (Robert and his trainer dressed it up in one of the former's wife's best dresses) always manages to regain her feet before the count of ten. In fact, it is this self-same dummy which is the thorn in the side of Roberts, as the maid discovers it under the bed where the men have finally placed it after it has given them a severe tussle and tells Mrs. Roberts that a strange girl is in her husband's room. By clever strategy, the dummy, dressed in feminine garb, is "abducted" and sold to a junk dealer. When Mrs. Roberts gets to the room, nothing is out of the way. She suddenly finds out that her new waist, containing a valuable diamond sunburst which her husband had given her, is missing, and she dismisses her maid on circumstantial evidence. The maid gets sympathy from Roberts and Horner, who are outside convulsed with glee over their fine work in getting rid of the roly-poly exercise "girl." Roberts realizes that the waist thought to be stolen enshrouds the form of the roly-poly dummy and after a hurried tour of the junk shops, he locates waist and sunburst and the maid is vindicated. After all this exercise, Roberts has "gone down" appreciably and his weight has dropped nearly 200 pounds. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less