The Charity of the Poor

A self-centered rich man loves but one person in the world, his daughter. The girl has no mother to plead for her and finally she elopes. The father hears nothing of the girl for a year. Then a doctor brings her and her little baby to his home. The husband has met death in a railroad wreck. The father takes her in, but he hates the child. He directs his butler to leave the little one at an asylum, and tells his daughter that her baby is dead. The girl, separated from her baby, becomes sick and physicians tell the father that without her little one she will soon die. So he goes to the asylum to reclaim the child. But there they have no record of the infant. The servant, it seems, had carelessly left the child on the doorstep, half buried in the snow, and gone away after a ring of the bell. But fate was kind to the unfortunate babe. On the day it had been abandoned, a poor couple, starving and helpless, had decided to turn their own babe over to charity. The husband set out for the asylum, meaning to leave his little one there. On the steps he found the other infant, half dead in the snow. Bravely he determined to renew the fight for existence and not abandon the baby while he had strength to stand. The rich man, after his trip to the asylum, started back, bowed in grief. On the way his auto broke down, and the cold caused him to seek refuge in a nearby cottage while repairs were being made. In the course of a conversation the rich man learns that these kindly people are the finders of his daughter's babe. He rewards them lavishly, and takes the little child home to its mother, who greets it with a mother's affection. - IMDb