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- Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
- An unemployed cook takes her shot at working for an upper class family. When none of their fancy guests show up to a party, she and the butler impersonate them.
- It is the year 1950; women have taken over men's jobs and have become the aggressors in romantic situations. Lizzie Hap stuffs the ballot box, defeats her opponent, Minnie Fish, and is thereby elected Fire Chief of the all female fire department, and succeeds in winning the hand of her fair loved one, Willie Wart.
- After the war is over, an ex-soldier who came home a war hero returns to collect his wife. They have kept their marriage secret from her father, a rich businessman obsessed with money who thinks there's "no profit in heroes". They have to convince her father that her husband is good enough for his daughter before they break the news to him that they're already married.
- A henpecked husband has a fondness for pretty girls. To keep him at home and make him do the housework, wifie chains him to the job. Of course hubby gets an opportunity to get out, and immediately meets a pretty girl.
- Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the Whitling Man.
- A street fight broken up by a secret hand signal leads to the discovery of the Royal Order of the Wriggle Fingers, a bizarre Satanic cult run by the police and endowed with magical powers.
- Aspiring detective Lizzie goes to Chinatown to track down some stolen papers, not realizing she's had them in her pocket all along.
- The scrub lady in a hotel is persuaded by the management to impersonate a countess.
- A rare example of a short with the Silent female comic, who was compared to Chaplin, here as a rural milkmaid who gets mixed up with various problems including a bootlegger.
- Billy is bribed separately by both managers of contestants in a boxing match to count the other contestant out.
- Lizzie is a hotel's Jill-of-all-trades at a hotel filled with quirky guests, from honeymooners to a one-man band and a theater actor rehearsing his part.
- Gale is the the proprietor of a lunch cart.
- A husband acts as the despot in his more modern household. Then, however, comes the dry period and without the fire water to inspire him, the man lapses into an indifferent state during which he is ruled forcibly by his wife. With some well made gin in his system, he soon re-conquers his spouse, who suddenly displays a new affection for him.
- An advocate of the scheme of making purchases on the dollar down and dollar when you get me plan, a man, upon being married, proceeds to live right merrily until the army of collectors grows to abnormal proportions. For a time he is able to avert the inevitable, but eventually the crash comes. The result is that his apartment is left entirely bare and only the baby remains his.
- Two young lovers have quarreled and are individually named as heirs to a certain sum of money. The girl cannot receive the money if she marries; on the other hand, the boy must marry at a certain date in order to lawfully acquire the inheritance.