Mrs. Van Smithers is giving a state dinner to which several diplomats and society leaders are invited. Her French cook and German butler are madly in love with the English maid. Frenchy, the cook, brings her a tribute of frog legs...

C.J. Williams

When War Threatened

Mrs. Van Smithers is giving a state dinner to which several diplomats and society leaders are invited. Her French cook and German butler are madly in love with the English maid. Frenchy, the cook, brings her a tribute of frog legs. Dutchy, the butler, gives her a choice Limburger cheese. Mary Ann is open to conviction but a whiff of the cheese and taste of the frog precipitates a cyclone in the kitchen. Mrs. Van, blaming Mary Ann, discharges her. The guests arrive and with them comes Jack, the American chauffeur. He sneaks around to Frenchy's back window and helps himself to dainties cooling at the window. Frenchy at length discovers him and grabs his hand but Jack escapes leaving his newspaper in Frenchy's hand. Then trouble begins, for Frenchy reads that General Bologna has massacred thousands of General Houpla's troops. A pitched battle follows between Frenchy and Dutchy with the dinner as ammunition. Meanwhile, consternation reigns in the dining room. The guests are starving. There is excitement outside the kitchen window, also, for Jack has met Mary Ann leaving, and fallen in love with her. They watch the battle through the kitchen window, with great glee. Frenchy discovers them and tells Dutchy. Both stop battling and start after Jack and Mary Ann who hurry away in his auto. Frenchy and Dutchy hire a junkman to give chase with his wagon. Jack reaches the parsonage and is married as Frenchy and Dutchy arrive. Mrs. Van discovers the fate of the delayed dinner and she and the guests get the dinner themselves. They are having a high time over the dinner when Frenchy, Dutchy and Mike, the junkman, arrive. Mike, finding that Frenchy and Dutchy cannot pay for his service, proceed to eat up everything left in the kitchen. Frenchy makes a cake and ices it with the words "War Is Hell," which makes a great hit with the diners. Then, with Mary Ann gone out of their lives forever, Frenchy and Dutchy make friends and forget their differences. Meanwhile, Mike, left to his own resources, sees a chance to get his pay so cleans out the furniture of the kitchen and drives away with it.

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