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- Most men claim that they have enough trouble with their mother-in-law while she is alive, but imagine being haunted by her after she is dead. Such is the experience of the young married man of this film story. The scene opens in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed. A handsome oil painting of the late mother-in-law is seen. Hubby has an engagement and tells wifie a fib about it, but just at that moment, mother-in-law looks down from her frame and shakes a warning finger at him. He rushes out of the house in dismay. He is accosted by a beggar woman, but just as he is about to refuse to give her money an apparition of the mother-in-law appears in the beggar woman's place and makes him be charitable. He attempts to chuck a flower girl under the chin, but the flower girl turns to be an apparition of the mother-in-law. He sits down at a cafe table and begins to flirt with a young woman at the next, but just as he is about to take hold of her hand, secretly, she changes into a vision of mother-in-law. He stops to admire the statue of a woman, but the statue turns into his mother-in-law, and as he is about to beat the statue with his umbrella, an officer appears and orders him off. He returns home, and on his knees he pleads to the painting of mother-in-law for forgiveness, and all ends happily.
- The story of Sapho is laid in the Grecian era and Sapho is depicted as a wealthy woman of that period who has a host of admirers and a still greater host of maid servants who worship her. She is first seen playing the instrument which was most popular in her day the lyre, in her sumptuous apartments, surrounded by her maids. She receives a bunch of posies from an ardent admirer, but when he enters upon the scene she rejects him. She leaves her home and wanders through the beautiful country about the place, singing an extemporaneous song, as she plays upon her lyre. She finally wanders to the sea coast and watches a party of fishermen as they land in their small boat. She falls in love with one of their number, but finds, to her utter dismay, that he prefers a sweetheart among the common people of his country. She is disconsolate, and all that her doting maids can do to cheer her is of no avail. The film finally ends in her suicide upon the rocky coast.