The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor and the fearful prayer, "If I ever speak to that man again, may God strike my mother blind," was fulfilled, but in the end the woman was saved from herself.
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Jennie Lee as The Mother
Dorothy Gish as The Daughter
Henry B. Walthall as The Actor
Charles Hill Mailes as The Minister / Medicine Show Patron
Robert Harron as The Messenger / Medicine Show Patron / In Church
Adolph Lestina as The Justice of the Peace / In Church
Joseph McDermott as The Delivery Man
Kathleen Butler as The Nursemaid / In Church
United States 28 June 1913
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