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  • Spare the Rod (1912)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Spare the Rod (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short
John Morton is an upright citizen, but a man of stern parental principles. The boy's mother is of a far different caliber than her husband, and his strictness toward the son for any small juvenile lapses has caused her tender heart no ...See moreJohn Morton is an upright citizen, but a man of stern parental principles. The boy's mother is of a far different caliber than her husband, and his strictness toward the son for any small juvenile lapses has caused her tender heart no small amount of agony during the eight years since the boy was born. John Jr. fell from his pedestal of grace when, during the first light snowfall of the season, he knocked a gentleman's silk hat off. The old gentleman, instead of punishing the boy, only shook a warning finger at him and walked away, smiling over the reminiscences of his boyhood days. But Johnnie's act was witnessed by his father, who, calling the boy into the house, administered the bamboo rod to him so fiercely that his wife came running into the room, and taking the little fellow away from her husband, fled from the house threatening never to return. Two years later we find that the "widow" Morton has won the respect of the little rural community where she is a school-teacher, while miles away, Mr. Morton is living a lonesome life; but his pride would not allow him to communicate with his wife, whose perambulations he kept track of. News of her private affairs having reached the ears of the school board, she was promptly expelled. Fate had it that on this very day Morton came to the village where he knew his wife was teaching. On his way to the lodging house at which she is staying he beheld two little boys fighting, and as he drew closer, he recognized one of them as his son, who, after a loving embrace, led him to his mother. There the family was again brought together and the father broke the rod, never to use another one on his son. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Jan 21, 1912 (United States)

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