Her Two Jewels

The wealthy widow lived a selfish life, with little regard or consideration for anybody except her son. He was her idol and she was blind to all his faults. The young man gave his mother a handsome jeweled pin, and the woman proudly wore it on her dress. But that very day an inkwell on her desk upset and her handsome gown was stained. A girl from the dress cleaners arrived to take the dress away, and the owner, who had now changed to another gown, took the soiled dress to the window, where she showed the stains to the messenger. After the girl had gone the woman discovered that the pin had disappeared, and a careful search revealed no trace of it in her room. She decided, although she did not know positively, that the girl must have taken it. The pin was not in the gown when it reached the shop, the girl was accused of theft by the woman, and was sent to prison. A short time later it was proven that the pin fell from the window while the widow was showing the gown to the girl, and was found by a little Italian boy. The girl, her innocence established, was released from prison, but the woman made no effort to atone for her error. A few years later the woman received a shock when her son informed her that he was going to marry a girl for whom he cared very much, although he admitted that she was a manicure. The mother argued with him, but could not change his mind, so she decided to call on the manicure herself and bribe her to renounce her son. But, to her surprise and consternation, the manicure proved to be the little cleaner girl whom she has so grievously wronged. The manicure was no longer as light-hearted as she had been in the days gone by, and she scornfully told the mother that she could not buy her off, and she intended to marry her son. The woman pleaded, but she found no mercy in the girl whom she had given none. The manicure married the son, and it is generally conceded by those who knew him in the past, that she made a man of him. The widow sees very little of her son and lives alone, revengeful and unforgiving, - IMDb