This comedy short actually has a plot--a rarity for an early Keystone film! Fatty is married to a horrid woman who browbeats him unmercifully. It seems that Fatty's wife makes him do all the work around the house! His next door neighbor is a nice lady, but her husband is the jealous type and thinks something might be going on when his wife and Fatty are outside doing laundry.
Later, both couples separately decide to go for a walk in the park---the same park that is featured in MANY Keystone films. At the park, Fatty's wife falls asleep and gives him a moment to relax. He sneaks away and meets up with his pretty neighbor and asks her to accompany him to the snack bar. But, as his wife has all the money, he sneaks back and takes her purse. When the old battleaxe wakes up a little later, she thinks her purse has been stolen and thinks the man next door did it! This is a cute comedy of errors and is HIGHLY reminiscent of a later Arbuckle film, Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (also from 1915--made only two months later). Unfortunately, in many of the early Keystone films, they used and re-used story ideas and variations on them again and again.
Later, both couples separately decide to go for a walk in the park---the same park that is featured in MANY Keystone films. At the park, Fatty's wife falls asleep and gives him a moment to relax. He sneaks away and meets up with his pretty neighbor and asks her to accompany him to the snack bar. But, as his wife has all the money, he sneaks back and takes her purse. When the old battleaxe wakes up a little later, she thinks her purse has been stolen and thinks the man next door did it! This is a cute comedy of errors and is HIGHLY reminiscent of a later Arbuckle film, Fatty's Chance Acquaintance (also from 1915--made only two months later). Unfortunately, in many of the early Keystone films, they used and re-used story ideas and variations on them again and again.