Here is another tract; but one that is in part very artistic. It has good acting and a very tense climax with breathless suspense. One scene seems over-careful in its plainness. The effect is as though one were reading in words with divided syllables. It deals, as all good tracts must deal, with a homely, simple and very human situation and presents it to us very effectively. It is almost universal in its appeal. The husband runs his farm; his wife keeps the house, does the cooking, washing, cleaning, sewing, churning and what not. The husband is ambitious and hard-working; but he is not affectionate. He is saving money and laying up for himself, his children, and perhaps his grandchildren, a good reputation and a hard heart. His wife is more human than he, is of finer fibre, has needs that he won't recognize and is being mercilessly worn out. The man gets a sharp lesson and profits by it. The picture ought to go home to a good many people. It is pretty well photographed. We liked it; the audience also seemed to like it. The lesson comes through a sportsman on a fishing expedition, who stops several times at the farm house and wants the woman to run away with him. - The Moving Picture World, June 1, 1912
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