Tiny Tim in Society (1913)

Realizing that however successful he may he as a humorist. Tiny Tim's education has been sadly neglected in the deportment department, and efforts are made to remedy the omissions of the past. In polite company he does not behave at all nicely, and his first lessons are directed toward improving the manner in which he enters a room. At the end of the first lesson he shows distinct promise of improvement. It may be (and very probably is) that acquiescence suggests to him "the easiest way," but his mother at least is satisfied with the progress he has made, and on the following day ventures to allow Tiny Tim to come into the parlor where she is entertaining a few friends. For a short time all goes well, but Tiny Tim wearies. The "At Home" is not sufficiently exciting for the youngster, and as he sits in a very easy chair he yawns, he gapes, his little mouth is stretched to its uttermost capacity. As is well known, yawning is a most contagious proceeding, and ere long all the guests are engaged in the very unbecoming process of mouth-stretching, with most dire results to Grandpa Binks. Grandpa Binks gapes to such bad effect that he is seized with lockjaw, which a smart "uppercut" from a fellow guest fails to cure. It is left to Tiny Tim to restore the injured Grandpa Binks to his former normal condition. Leaving the parlor quietly, he returns with a handful of ice-fragments, which he flings violently into the face of the still-gaping Grandpa. The result is instantaneous, but Grandpa Binks is deeply offended, and his anger is not appeased until he has thrown the youngster violently into the street.

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