- Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow. After the honeymoon, Ed takes his bride to the home that had been his mother's, and Peggy redecorates the entire house in her husband's absence. Gradually, Ed learns to submit to his wife's modern attitudes until he discovers that her continual visits to the city have not been to the dentist's, as she had said, but to the studio of portrait painter Perry Pipp. Ed angrily confronts Peggy with her deception, forcing her to return home to her parent's house. Later, when Ed learns that Peggy has been posing for a portrait as a birthday surprise, he begs his wife's forgiveness, which she bestows, along with the information that a baby is on it's way.—Pamela Short
- Peggy accepts an engagement ring from young farmer Ed, after a well simulated display of coyness and reluctance, and in due time the wedding is celebrated. Of course, she has chosen Niagara Falls as the scene of the honeymoon. After the ceremony Ed announces that the next morning is to find them at the State Fair, a bucolic festival which the young bride is in no mood to attend. Peggy rebels and steals away to Niagara Falls alone, leaving her bewildered young husband to follow. Thus early in her married life Peggy has resolved to construct the edifice of her happiness and home on the principles of mutual forbearance. After the honeymoon Ed takes his young wife to the home, which had been his mother's. But the dullness and dowdiness of her out-of-date surroundings depress Peggy and she resolves, in her husband's absence, to furnish the house more in consonance with the modern ideas of taste and refinement. Ed rebels at this extravagance, but Peggy maintains her point and the young husband submits. The farm hands, who, before Ed's marriage, were treated as members of the family, now complicate matters by demanding the restoration of their former privileges, and as the crops are in danger if the hands strike, Peggy persuades her husband to receive his employees at the dinner table. Time and again Peggy wins out in humanizing her somewhat selfish and stubborn young husband by her adroit arts of persuasion. She designs to surprise him with a birthday gift in the form of her portrait, but her absence at the artist's studio to whom she is giving many sittings gives rise to jealousy on Ed's part, and there is a quarrel and a separation. But the misunderstanding is cleared up and when Ed receives the portrait and realizes that his wife's mysterious absences have been caused by a desire to please and surprise him he relents and begs her forgiveness. And the imminent appearance of a little stranger in the home of persuasive Peggy strengthens the prospects of future happiness for the young couple.
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