Troubles of a Grass Widower

A wife goes home to her mother and her husband is delighted for exactly one meal. Then the cooking, the dishes, the bed he cannot make, and a mess that grows until he begs her back. Max Linder, in the top hat, plays helplessness as a method, and the walk Chaplin's Tramp would take a few years later starts here. Pathé, 1908, ten minutes.