- Mark Embury sets out to create the perfect wife by adopting Peggy. His work is a success until the girl falls in love with another man. Ultimately, he must give her up and become satisfied with knowing, he did create the perfect wife, albeit for someone else.—Pamela Short
- This picture tells the story of Peggy, a foundling who is adopted by a philosopher in the hope that she will one day develop into an ideal wife for him. Mark Embury is the name of the scientist and dreamer, who, after a survey of the young girls in his town, has come to the inevitable conclusion that they are all too frivolous for housewifery. He conceives the idea of applying to the local Foundling Home for permission to adopt the most promising of the little inmates. The Foundling Society sends him a number of "samples. " from which he chooses Peggy. Under his carefully and well-thought-out plan of education and culture. Peggy gradually develops into a beautiful girl with keen intellect and a noble heart. But the eminent professor has forgotten to reckon with youth in laying his very unique plan. When Peggy meets Captain George Lovell, the nephew of the philosopher, she finds him most interesting. The feeling is more than reciprocated; it is increased a thousandfold. But the captain has committed the indiscretion of conducting a harmless flirtation with Mrs. Goodlake, the wife of Embury's lawyer. Discovering this fact, and not realizing the mildness of the pastime, the uncle tells Lovell that he must give up the Woman. But the Mexican War settles the question for the captain, as he is called to the front. He has made a profound impression upon Peggy, who corresponds with him while he is at the front. Lovell has not been away from Peggy very long before be realizes that he loves her. Peggy, for her part, finds life not quite so interesting since the departure of her soldier, so she writes him telling about her lessons and the wonderful kindness of her guardian. Meanwhile Mark Embury has fallen very much in love with his adopted daughter, over whose education he is presiding with such solicitous and tender care. Mistaking her overwhelming gratitude and tender filial devotion for a different sort of love, he looks forward eagerly to the day when he can ask Peggy to marry him. He is elated with the success of his plan and glories in the fact that it is working out even better than he had anticipated. The war over, Lovell returns a hero, and Mrs. Goodlake still desperately in love with him, places him In a compromising position which leads Peggy to believe that he is false to her. Her loyal little heart broken, Peggy staggers her guardian by confessing to him that she is in love with Lovell, but that she will never have anything more to do with him because of his duplicity. Thus does fate play into the hands of the philosopher, who finds it in his power, by merely keeping his own counsel concerning the innocence of his nephew, which he quickly establishes, to kill the love of Peggy for his young rival. His decision makes an absorbing and touching denouement.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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