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- Mrs. Marsh thinks she knows just how to get money out of her husband every time she wants to buy a new dress, but then he gets stubborn and decides to teach her a lesson.
- Percival Montague marries a penniless American and is disowned by his father, Lord Battleaxe, an English Duke. Monty and wife Mary head to the United States, promising to make a fortune. A few months later, they're looking for work of any kind. They hire on as waiter and cook at a nice Manhattan hotel. Monty shaves his mustache, but can't stop using his monocle, so he's teased constantly by the other hotel staff. He runs into trouble when people he knows arrive at the hotel. He pretends to be a fellow guest, joins them in revelry, and may lose his job. Mary is alarmed. Monty decides to tell his friends the real reason he's dressed as he is. Is this their lot?
- Mr. Henry, a traveling salesman, is unable to pay proper attention to his business because of the tormenting recollection of his wife's tears at parting. No matter how frequent the necessary absences occurred, Mrs. Henry failed to get used to parting with hubby. At last a bright idea enters Henry's head and he takes a lengthy vacation, during which time he follows his wife about the house like a dog, insisting on "running her house as he thought it ought to be run." Finally hubby's "cuteness" gets on Mrs. Henry's nerves, and at the close of the vacation instead of shedding tears she gleefully packs his suitcase and sees him return to his work. Noon that day brings the last straw to Mrs. Henry's trials, when Henry returns with the news that he is to be retained in the home office.
- Polly develops a bargain craze, and exasperates Henry Minor, her husband, to the extent that he is forced to find a cure. The last straw is laid on his load when Polly comes home one day with a pair of embroidered slippers for him that were marked down to a fabulously low price at a certain Fifth Avenue store. The fact that the slippers were not mates made no difference to Polly; she solved the problem by suggesting that Henry buy two bath robes, one to match each slipper, which he could wear when sick, and make believe that they matched the slippers by sticking out the foot that matched the particular robe he was wearing at the time. She had also bought at a bargain a record of "The Star Spangled Banner." It was cracked in the chorus, but that didn't matter, because every one knew the chorus. Neither did they have an instrument; that was a fact easily got over by buying one. Henry's cure, which worked charmingly in the end, was to buy at a bargain a set of andirons, the usefulness of which depended on the purchase of a new house with a fireplace. Polly, loath to leave her present home, shed tears of sorrow, and finally saw herself as Henry saw her deciding to look without favor on the next "special today."
- Polly persists in putting to Henry the embarrassing question, "Henry, am I really the first woman you ever loved or asked to marry you?" The arrival on the scene of one of the numerous women of Henry's affectionate past causes him to sweat drops of blood until he discovers that the only confidence exchanged with his wife by the mischievous lady is the news that she is engaged to be married.
- The Drews (Lucille and Sidney) play an on-screen couple Polly and Henry, in this silent era one-reel domestic comedy that pokes fun at middle-class married life.
- Polly is an over-tidy wife whose sole fad is the extermination of dust, and who follows her miserable spouse about with a duster in one hand and an ash tray in the other. One day Henry Minor is invited by a friend into his home to inspect a puppy who is allowed to nestle its happy life away among satin cushions in the not over-tidy home of the Wards. Henry's fondness for visiting the Wards is noticed by Polly, who drags from Henry the acknowledgment that Mrs. Ward is "very charming" - an acknowledgment which gives Polly an hour of awful foreboding at the end of which she decides to peep through the window of the Ward home to discover what its real attraction is. Stealing to the window by the light of a gloomy moon she sees not pretty Mrs. Ward among the satin cushions, nor the "disgraceful puppy," nor even the game of poker that is in progress between Henry and his friend. All she saw was her nice, tidy Henry flicking cigarette ashes on the floor. She also saw on Henry's face a smile that was almost beatific, and determined to keep it there. Needless to say, on Henry's return home that night the whisk broom and shoe brush which were wont to hang outside the door for his especial use were gone, and more wonderful still, his home had taken on an atmosphere of delightful untidiness and Polly was playing poker.
- Father tries to fix the fire in the boiler and each time it goes out. Bobby sees a picture in a magazine, showing how to start a fire by the aid of gas. He now tells father he is going to start that fire. Surprised at the intelligence displayed by his son, Henry gives him a dollar and tells him not to say anything to anybody - meaning mother. However, Mrs. Minor overhears the conversation.
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry, who are fond of good living, have become ardent patriots. In the first year of their married life they have had some fifty seven cooks, all of whom were temperamental; but at last an angel has been sent them in the shape of Mandy, who caters religiously to their appetites. Mandy's first jolt from the patriotic side comes one day when she finds in the ice box the chicken, which she has carefully prepared and sat up four hours the night before to serve as a part of a late supper to her master and mistress on their return from a patriotic ball. At this point Mandy's education has begun, and at last, to the delight of Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Mandy not only has become a full-fledged food conservationist herself, but has educated all the cooks in the block, and has seen to it that Mrs. Henry wears the badge of honor also.
- Two concerned parents anxiously wait for their young son's first tooth.
- Hubby is suffering from a toothache and in spite of his wife's pleadings with him to visit the dentist, he fails to yield. Finally she makes an appointment and the dentist succeeds in extracting the wrong tooth.
- Mrs. Henry Marsh reads a magazine article which says that all days should be like a string of pearls, each one perfect unto itself. Mrs. Marsh decides that she and Henry will proceed to lead the perfect life, and she so advises him. He is shaving at the time and he is so disgusted at the announcement that he swears, cuts himself, and starts the day in anything but a perfect manner. Bad luck seems to follow throughout the day, in spite of the fact that Mrs. Marsh gives her husband a set of mottoes with sweet sentiments to read when anything goes wrong. Her path is not smooth, either, for the cook quits, and when Henry brings home guests to dinner she burns the chicken, which has refused to cook before. She bursts into tears, and Henry tells her to keep cool, that they must lead the perfect life. Needless to say the pursuit of the perfect life is at once abandoned for something more human and natural.
- Henry, after being neglectful in sending his wife flowers and candy, is aroused to a jealous rage when his wife proceeds to have flowers and candy sent to herself.
- Mom and dad proudly exhibit a beautiful child which daddy persists in believing bears an uncanny resemblance to himself. His jealous attempts to convince not only his uncomplaining wife, but others, of the baby's striking resemblance to him compose the meat of the comedy of the picture. Daddy takes the pretty youngster down the street with him while he gets a shoe-shine and a shave. Unfortunate remarks passed by the barber and the bootblack with regard to the baby's beauty and his non-resemblance to his daddy are torture to the latter. On the beach he meets the same unhappy condition, and is inconsolable until finally his mother-in-law appears on the scene to behold her grandchild for the first time, and declares that he is the image of his dad.
- A hypochondriac, convinced she's dying, tells her husband that if she knew he'd have a new wife who would make him happy, she'd die peacefully. She then proceeds to get three of her ugliest friends for him to choose from. The husband, however, has his own idea of who his "new" wife will be.
- Henry has committed the indiscretion of coming home to his Polly the worse for liquor, the painting of his office providing the rare occasion for a celebration. An unfortunate dab of red paint on his handkerchief adds fuel to the flame of Polly's anger and causes her to point the finger of suspicion at Henry so strongly that she finally decides to leave home and sue for a divorce. Polly, true to her sex, weakens as a result of Henry's pleadings over the telephone, and when the detective, who has never seen Polly, suddenly appears at the lawyer's office with the "dope" on Henry, and it turns out that Polly herself was the pretty woman in widow's weeds with whom Henry has been seen, the divorce suit is as suddenly put an end to and the pair are reunited.
- The story of a love affair between Master Minor and the waitress at school - at least Bobby thinks it ought to be, because - didn't she give him an extra dish of ice cream? He tells his father about it, making Henry realize that Minor, Jr. is nothing but a "chip off the old block."
- This newly married couple would rather a burglar steal the diamonds than the eggs and shoes.
- This time Hubby is so perfect and pays so much attention to Friend Wife that she becomes weary of his attention and perfection. But she has a dream of him as an unfaithful husband which makes her appreciate him and his perfection.
- "Old Bachelor Henry Minor," in announcing his engagement to Polly Brown, boasts to his friends that he would be boss of his house, wouldn't allow his wife to use any rouge, nor dress too stylishly, nor dance with other men. But after the marriage, his friends have the laugh on him, as Henry finds out that some one else was the boss.