While Flora Winslow, a widow is engaged to Bunny, she attends a lecture on eugenics and decides that her intended husband is too fat. She tells him he must reduce, and as she wishes to become stouter, they agree to attend Dr. Sweatem's Sanitarium.
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John Bunny as Bunny
Flora Finch as Flora Winslow - a Widow
Josie Sadler as Violet Small
Charles Eldridge as Dr. Sweatem
George D. Baker Director
United States 30 October 1914
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