Dollars-Pounds-Sense (1913)

Getting one's wife by the pound is rather new as a farcical idea, but it is surely a laugh maker.

26/11/1913

Overview

"You're worth your weight in gold!" This is what Charles Watson, a young spendthrift, told every girl he met. His father threatened to disown him unless he would marry a girl and settle down, and if he married inside of thirty days.