- Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his behavior. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.—Anonymous
- This Biograph comedy shows a party, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton, seeing the old year out, in the time-honored custom. The guests begin to arrive, each couple costumed to represent a particular month or season. In the anteroom is a mammoth bowl of punch, but as Mrs. Hilton says, quoting a well-known administrator, "John, this is for the guests, not for us." John is content, as his resolution was now young and healthy. Mrs. Hilton was the first to feel the chill of this unresponsive greeting, and turning to John says, "We'll take just one glass with these, our best friends." This one drink with our best friends is repeated many times until, well, John is feeling pretty good, and Mrs. Hilton is by no means in the depths of melancholy. In the ballroom, things are pretty lively, and when the old year, typified by an old man with a scythe, appears he is hustled off to give place to a young girl representing the New Year. The assemblage now becomes dithyrambie, blowing horns, hurling paper ribbons and confetti and dancing madly about. Meanwhile, John is having the time of his life as is also Mrs. Hilton. But, Oh! What a difference in the morning. In John we see a sorry sight. He is a sick and contrite being. He realizes his conduct has not been very becoming, and despairs of receiving his wife's forgiveness. However, he learns that Mrs. Hilton feels herself a most guilty personage, and that she is totally ignorant of his escapades, so he assumes an air of austere dignity and most condescendingly listens to her pleading for forgiveness, which he grants.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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