Hustling for Health

Stan is trying to get away on a holiday for his health but he misses the train at Santa Fe Station. A man at the station says he can stay at his house and they shake hands on this. He gives Stan a pile of packages to carry. They board a train using Stan's ticket.

A group of women in a parlour debate if husbands are "human beings or microbes".

Stan and the man arrive at the next station and hire a light buggy to take them home. Stan needs to go on the back with the bags. The horse detaches so Stan has to pull, whipped by the boy driving. They go up a steep hill.

Next door as the two arrive home Mr Spotless tends his garden. Stan interrupts the women's meeting and they surround him. He jumps out of a window to escape and warn the husband. The group of women leave and they can enter. A chubby child has their bed in the kitchen sink. The man starts to make dinner.

Next door an authority figure (the health inspector) is pointed to the house by Mr Spotless. The man sends Stan to deal with it.. he is told to clean up the yard as pigs are complaining.. the yard is full of chickens. He leans over the wall to the Spotless garden and knocks bricks out of the wall which smash Mr Spotless' cold frame. He starts to tidy the yard - mainly by throwing things into he Spotless garden. He starts hosing down the yard just as smoke starts from the kitchen window. He sprays the man in the face as he looks out.

Next door Mr spotless wishes to show off his garden to a woman but finds it full of rubbish. He shots over the garden wall at Stan and gets sprayed with water. He goes next door and starts to throttle Stan. The woman vaults the wall and intervenes. Stan tries to lift her over the wall but they fall. He succeeds on the second attempt and she blows him a kiss. Stan throws the chicken coop into the Spotless garden.

Inside the man's bespectacled wife returns and starts to chastise him. Stan enters. The wife is refusing to cook and Stan thinks this means for him. He goes back outside just as Mrs Spotless puts a pie in the window to cool. Vaulting over he manages to steal nt only the pie but several other dishes and takes them back to the man and his wife.

Mrs Spotless tells Mr Spotless of the loss. They go next door to enquire and the wife invites them in for a snack. They all sit at the dining table and Mrs Spotless recognises her dishes. She accuses them of stealing. They point at Stan and Stan leaves.

He chats to the woman next door over the garden wall in increasingly heavy rain.

• Stan Laurel - The Man
• Pearl Elmore - (uncredited)
• Sadie Gordon - (uncredited)
• Rosa Gore - Woman Guest (uncredited)
• Bud Jamison - Mr. Spotless (uncredited)
• Margaret Joslin - Mrs. Spotless (uncredited)
• Jerome Laplauch - (uncredited)
• Belle Mitchell - (uncredited)
• Marie Mosquini - Homeowner's wife (uncredited)
• James Parrott - Man misses the train (uncredited)
• Clarine Seymour - Mr. Spotless's Daughter (uncredited)
• Hazel Powell - (uncredited)
• Catherine Proudfit - (uncredited)
• Frank Terry - Home Owner (uncredited)
• Dorothea Wolbert - Woman Guest (uncredited)
• Noah Young - The Health Inspector (uncredited)

• Hustling for Health at IMDb
• Hustling for Health at SilentEra
• Hustling for Health (1919) - full film on YouTube