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A boy scout picture with an educative purpose, it is addressed to nervous and over-careful mothers of boys. There are not a few loving mothers whose love is like too much candy and keeps their children from growing into strong and healthy men. The mother of this story (Florence Turner) was so afraid her little boy (Kenneth Casey) would get his feet wet that the poor chap didn't know how to take care of himself when he fell in the water. Some boy scouts encamped on the hillside wig-wagged a signal to their comrades on the shore of a lake ("Glimmer Glass," near Cooperstown, N.Y.) that the boy was in danger and they jumped in and saved him. Meanwhile, the fond mother was distracted on the dock. Miss Turner's emotional facial expression gives a deep heart-interest to the scene. After the scouts have resuscitated him, he is permitted to join the organization, and shows himself as good-tempered and as manly as any of them. It's a fine picture. - The Moving Picture World, November 4, 1911