Times
are hard as Christmas approaches and Arthur Rogers (Henry B. Walthall) abandons
his wife Helen (Marion Leonard) and children (Gladys Egan and John Tansey) in
despair.
However
very soon after she receives a bequest from her deceased aunt, so they are able
to move into better quarters, and the children are happy, but she wishes her
husband was with them.
As
there was no chimney Santa would have to enter through the window so on
Christmas Eve the children set a trap to catch him by tying a string to the
window sash with the other end fastened to one of their feet,
However
on Christmas Eve it isn’t Santa who enters through the window but Arthur, who
had turned to burglary to make ends meet not knowing it was his family’s
apartment, but it’s his wife who hears the intruder and immediately understands
and with a hurried explanation she shepherds him into another room, where he
dresses in the Santa suit she was going to wear, and when the children appear
he pretends to be caught in their trap, and they squeal with delight.
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