A faithless wife, with a penchant for men in uniform, entertains a sailor before her policeman husband comes home.

As was typical of short comedies in the first few years of cinema, this simple scene encapsulates a story in much the same way that a strip cartoon does. Consciously or not, filmmakers often copied cartoons from the illustrated papers, lantern slides or postcards. The wife is played by a man in drag, while the uniformed men conform to familiar comedy 'types': soldiers are amorous, police are dim.

Early fiction. Woman serves soldier his dinner but her husband, who is a policeman returns so she disposes of his dinner and the man in uniform with whom she is having an affair hides behind a screen. Police continue to consume dinner before discovering the man behind the screen. This film still needs to be formally identified but is most likely to be The Soldier, the Policeman and the Cook by Birt Acres (1899) featuring Arthur Melbourne Cooper as the Soldier.