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- Mary is a country girl, and lives on a farm with her parents. However, she is very romantic and her head is full of ideals, gained by reading numerous romantic books. John the farm hand has induced Mary to promise to marry him. Mary is out reading one day, when Donald Belmar, on a hunting trip from the city, comes across her. He flirts with her and she sees in him her ideal of the books. She listens to his flatteries and is very much smitten with him. Arthur, a small boy, sees the flirtation and informs John. John arrives on the scene just as Belmar is kissing Marv. John assaults Belmar, nearly chokes him to death. Belmar goes away and John takes Mary home, Mary refusing to speak to him. The next day Mary received a letter from Belmar telling her how happy he was while with her and inviting her to come to the city to visit him. This she decides to do, and in the night leaves home. She arrives in the city and the next day goes to Belmar's home. To her surprise, she discovers that Belmar is married, and that she has been deceived. She returns home, but her father orders her from the house. There being nothing left to do but commit suicide, she journeys to the river and decides to end her life. John calls at her home and Mary's mother informs him of Mary's return and of how she was treated by her father. John runs to the river and is just in time to save Mary from a watery grave. Mary realizes the true depth of John's love and they make up their quarrel. They go to the minister and are married, Mary vowing to always look upon John as her only ideal. They return home and upon explanation are reconciled to her mother and father.
- Box is a printer. He works all night. Cox is a hatter. He works all day. Box rents a room from Mrs. Bouncer, a lodging-house keeper, telling her he will only use it in the daytime. Cox visits Mrs. Bouncer and asks for a room, telling her he will only use it at night. She rents the same room to both of them. Then starts a strange series of situations. Mrs. B. must get Cox out of bed before Box comes home and Box out of bed before Cox comes home. She uses all sorts of subterfuges to keep Box downstairs in the dining-room while Tillie, the housemaid, chases Cox out of the house and then straightens up the room. This works for a while until one day Cox oversleeps and Mrs. B. thinking he has gone, allows Box to go upstairs. He tumbles into bed and is surprised to find it occupied. A fight follows and Box kicks Cox downstairs. He complains to Mrs. B, and going upstairs with Cox confesses that she had rented the room to the both of them. Box, who up to this moment had not noticed Cox, recognizes him as an old acquaintance and renewing all old ties they agree to share the room together.
- Alice Howard, the daughter of Colonel Howard, a wealthy retired planter, falls in love with Henry Carleton, her music teacher. Henry tells the proud colonel of his love for Alice and is forbidden to enter the house. The young couple elope and are married. They take up housekeeping in the city, and after trying to gain the parental blessing, which is refused, they gradually drift away from Alice's family altogether. Things go fairly well with the young couple for a while, when Carleton is suddenly taken ill and is forced to take to his bed. He continues to be sick until his entire savings have been exhausted. Meanwhile the colonel has his troubles trying to comfort his wife, who grieves over Alice's forced absence from her home. Alice determines to seek employment, so as to earn enough at least to sustain life in Carleton and herself, until such time as her husband recovers from his illness and is able to resume his own work. She walks the streets from one place to another for days at a time, until finally she obtains employment in a sweatshop, sewing garments on a machine. Her hours are tiresome, but she does not mind that so long as she is earning a living for herself and the man she loves. One day the foreman of the shop, attracted by her rare beauty, attempts to kiss her and she slaps his face. She is discharged. She looks for work elsewhere, and the landlady of their flat threatens to dispossess them unless the rent, which is past due, is paid. Carleton, desperate, though still ill, gets out of bed and goes out, trying to find something to do whereby he can earn some money. He is overcome while on the street and a crowd is attracted. Among them is Jackson, the colonel's faithful old colored butler, who was visiting the city with the colonel. He recognizes Carleton and assists him home. He gives the landlady her money, then gets the colonel and brings him to the house. There, the old gentleman, realizing the depth of Alice's love, and what she has gone through, takes them both to his heart and makes them come home with him.
- Nellie loves Ned. Her father won't have Ned around the house and insists upon choosing Nellie's callers. He finds Ned at the house one day and telephones to Freddie, a rather effeminate youth, asking him to call immediately. Freddie does and Pa makes Nellie talk to him while he engages Ned in conversation. Ned gets disgusted and leaves. Freddie in his awkwardness, steps on Nellie's dress and tears it. That finishes him and he leaves. Father determines to get a real man for his daughter the next time and sends for Captain Fitzbugle of the town militia. The Captain calls and Nellie sees him. He boasts of his feats of courage to father, and pa thinks he is the bravest in the world. Nellie decides to have some fun with her father and the brave man in uniform and dresses in her father's clothes, wearing a mask. She gets an old horse pistol and enters the room where the Captain is still waving his sword. She points the gun at them and they collapse. She makes the Captain stand on his head and he runs from the house with Nellie close at his heels, waving the gun. The Captain runs into a policeman who chases Nellie through the streets and back into the house. She runs into the parlor and the policeman is about to arrest her when father explains that the desperado, unmasked is his daughter, and the policeman, after taking the gun away from her leaves. Father seeing that he is unable to curb his daughter's waywardness, writes Ned to call, hoping thusly to cure her had habits. Ned accepts the invitation and Nellie and he are reunited.
- Death message of intended suicide, made into doll's dress by little girl, exonerates murder suspect.
- Belmont and Violet are friends. He pays her attentions after having quarreled with Ethel. Ethel, though a great friend of Violet's, still likes Belmont and is Jealous of his attentions to Violet. Belmont visits Violet, but before arriving there, stops at a drug store and seeing an advertisement of a hair restorer, buys a bottle, his hair having begun to fall out. Violet, who had a slight growth of hair on her face, had bought a hair remover and was showing it to Ethel when Belmont arrived. Violet leaves the former sweetheart alone while she goes out to make lemonade. Belmont turns his back to Ethel and reads a book. Ethel determines to get even, and excuses herself for a few moments. She takes the two bottles with her and, putting them in water, removes the labels from the bottles. She then pastes the hair remover on the hair restorer bottle and puts them back where they were before she took them away. Belmont leaves, taking his bottle with him. That evening he applies the supposed hair restorer and before he knows it, he is totally bald. Violet uses the hair restorer on her face, thinking that in the morning when she awoke her face would show no more signs of hair. The nest day Belmont awakens and looking in the mirror is given the shock of his life. He rushes to Violet's house and shows her his bald pate. His surprise is greater, however, when she turns toward him and he sees her face is adorned with a full growth of beard, both bottles having performed their mission. Belmont takes one look at the girl of his dreams and faints dead away.
- Pa weighs 350 lbs. His daughter, Ethel, has two admirers, Ethelbert and Alfred. Father detests both boys. Pa, suffering from a bad attack of gout, is unable to walk. The three do not know what to do. They try to carry him upstairs, but fail. Ethelbert gets the idea of tying a rope around Pa and pulling him up. The rope is fastened and the pulling starts. They succeed in getting him up two or three steps when down he goes, bringing the others with him. They wind up in making a bed for Pa at the foot of the stairs. Later, when the boys call again, after father has recovered, he treats them to a generous dose from the seltzer bottle, and admonishes them never to call again.
- "Ragtime" Simmons, a colored gentleman, gets a job with a Hindoo fortune teller. Adorned in Hindoo raiment, he parades around the street, with a sign on his back, advertising the great occult powers of the clairvoyant. Tired, he falls asleep in the garden of the house where his wife is housemaid. Edith, the daughter of the household, and Mrs. Simmons' mistress, read in the newspaper of the arrival in this city of a Hindoo Prince, a multi-millionaire. She strolls in the garden and sees "Ragtime." She invites him into the house, thinking him the Prince, and entertains him. He makes love to Edith and is recognized by his wife, who chases him all over the house with a carving knife. Edith's father protests and she chases him up into the garret, where, after having been stripped of his glad raiment and wearing an old bag, Simmons is hiding. Father hits 'Ragtime" over the head with a mallet and brings him downstairs, where Mrs. Ragtime explains that he is no Prince, but her husband, and takes him home to deal further with him.
- Willie decides to play a joke on his elders, so he dresses up in Pa's clothes and dons whiskers just like Pa's. In the street he plays a trick on a policeman. When Pa comes along he gets the blame. Pa is sweet on the school teacher, Pearl. Pearl likes Pa, but does not like his whiskers, so Pa cuts them off. Willie keeps his on. One minute Pearl sees Pa with his whiskers on and the next with them off. Pearl nearly loses her mind. Incidentally her jealousy is aroused by seeing the supposed Pa with his arms around Arabella. Willie also causes lots of trouble for Arabella and her suitors. However, Pa catches him and Willie "gets his."
- Geraldine, a mischievous girl, lives with her grandfather and grandmother. She is continually pestering and playing jokes on the old fellow. He wishes to get rid of her. He writes a letter to her father asking him to take her away and also saying that he is going to kill his prize rooster. Belmont finds the last half of the letter and thinks that he is going to kill Geraldine. He calls the sheriff and their suspicions are confirmed when they see the old man sharpening up his knife. Complications ensue. All is finally straightened out and Belmont is beaten up. He resolves to mind his own business in the future.
- Hubby is a sport. His wife, who loves him dearly, awaits his homecoming one night and finally falls asleep in her chair. Hubby continues to have a good time at the poolroom, forgetting all about wife and home. The pool room is raided and Hubby climbs up the fire escape and enters a room. It is that of a small boy, asleep. In order to escape through the line of policemen surrounding the building, he dons the boy's clothing and leaves his own. He returns home, passes his wife, who still sleeps, and turns in after hiding his stolen clothes. The next morning he swears that he was in early and his wife believes him until the boy calls at the house dressed in hubby's clothes. Confronted with the evidence, Hubby is forced to give the clothing back and stand a severe lashing from his wife. An amusing farce.
- Hodges comes home and finds his wife in an altercation with an Italian. He chases him away. Later, a package comes to the office and Hodges is convinced that it is an infernal machine. He runs out for a policeman. Meanwhile his daughter comes to the office and takes the package home. Hodges' little boy takes the package. When the police arrive they cannot find it. They are all in fear. One officer gets courage enough to go up into Willie's room and after putting the package in water, opens it to find that it contains an alarm clock. Willie gets spanked for his part of the tragedy.
- George and Mabel are in love. Mabel's father is opposed to George and his suit. George writes Mabel a letter, asking her to meet him at Darling's restaurant. Father gets hold of the letter, and decides to meet George himself, taking with him a large club. Mabel warns George. George disguises himself as a blonde lady and keeps the appointment. George flirts with father and they dine together. Father is very much smitten, and George steals father's hat. George then runs out on father, who does not know what to make of it until he arrives at home, only to find George and Mabel planning their wedding day. Father raises a row until George threatens to expose his wild actions and career in the restaurant, and father has no other course left open to him than the giving of the parental blessing.
- Though Mr. and Mrs. Gray are supposed to be in comfortable circumstances, the husband has met business reverses and has been declared a bankrupt. It is after the wife has just completed a lavish social that he tells her. Disgruntled, she goes with him to live at a cheap apartment house. Gray secures employment with a rich broker. Mrs. Gray's friend insists on taking her one afternoon to a party. There she meets Mr. Norman, her husband's employer. Norman, struck with her, pays fast attentions. Some time later Norman sends Mrs. Gray a diamond ring that Mr. Gray has accidentally seen in the office. When Gray returns that evening and finds it on his wife he demands to know where she got it. She lies by saying that she found it. Norman, suspecting the intimacy, resolves to know just how far it has gone. Meantime, Mrs. Gray decides to return the ring and, after writing a note, takes the ring to Mrs. Allen. Here they are met by Norman. Mr. Gray has followed Norman. Gray rushes into the house. The party attempt to conceal Mrs. Gray. The husband draws a revolver. There is a struggle and a shot, which goes through the door, enters Mrs. Gray's shoulder. A doctor is called. Mr. Gray is about to leave when Mrs. Allen shows him the note. Convinced that his wife is innocent, that her relations .with his employer have been without taint, he takes his wife in his arms and forgives, and prays for her hasty recovery from the slight wound.
- When she returns home with her poor husband, William, her rich father disowns her. Several years later William finds himself alone except for a baby girl, his wife having died. Meanwhile the father, Dumont, has softened somewhat, and writes William, asking to take care of the child. He stipulates, however, that William must never come to visit her. William consents after careful thought, believing the old man can give her the education and comfort that he would be unable to. Time passes and the girl, now grown, becomes a fixture of the old man's household. She becomes attached to a young man, who asks to marry her. Meanwhile William has become lonesome for a sight of his child and decides to risk all visiting her. He arrives when the girl is in conversation with her lover. The butler sees William and mistakes him for a burglar. Dumont rushes out and accuses him. The girl observes and believing that her father needs her more than anyone, breaks her engagement. Her sweetheart, however, follows her, telling her that he would marry her despite her poverty, and all ends happily.
- Mary, who is employed us a stenographer, spends her time reading magazines. Her mind is full of strange thoughts. She is in the office alone. The handsome stranger calls, and seeing the large safe, determines that she, his unknowing victim, shall reveal to him the combination. He takes her out to supper. There she is introduced to the other arch conspirator. She sees through her mirror that they are trying to give her drugged wine, but she thwarts them by throwing it in their face. She runs. The unrelenting villains pursue her. Down a steep hill she rolls. The villains follow. At last, exhausted, she falls limp. They capture her and bring her back to the office. There they try to induce her to reveal the combination to the safe. She flaunts defiance in their faces. They take off her shoes and by tickling the sole of her feet, she opens the safe and as they enter, she swings the heavy doors shut, and locks them in. Her employer returns, and she explains. The arch-conspirators are arrested and dragged off to jail. Mary's employer lays his heart and hand at her feet and offers her his entire fortune if she will only consent to marry him. Mary is in ecstasy when she is rudely awakened by her employer shaking her and telling her that she is discharged for sleeping during business hours.
- Pearl receives a letter from her cousin, Dora, to the effect that she and her husband are going to Europe, and are going to send Pearl their machine. Pearl and husband decide to learn how to drive a car. They buy complete auto togs and hire a machine. The machine takes all kinds of funny turns. Ulysses is compelled to get out and get under the car. The car starts at a terrific rate. They are fined $50. At last they decide to wait until they get Fred's machine before they do any more riding. The gift arrives and they nearly collapse when they learn that it is a sewing machine instead of an automobile.
- At Mrs. Belmont's request, her husband gives her money with which to buy a rug. She buys a beautiful Turkish rug, which is delivered to the house that afternoon. A tramp visits the house and when refused food by her, steals it. He escapes with it though Mrs. Belmont gives chase. She informs a policeman of the affair. Mr. Belmont, returning late in the afternoon from the office, is met by the tramp, who wishes to sell the rug. Remembering his wife's desire for one, he purchases it. He is later observed walking along with it by the policeman, and is arrested. Against his protests Belmont is started to the station house. On the way the tramp is met and Belmont asserts loudly that he is the one who sold the rug to him. The policeman arrests them both, takes them to the station house and locks them in a cell. Mrs. Belmont finally arrives, identifies her husband, and he is released. The tramp goes to jail to await trial. On the road home the husband promises wife never again to butt in on household affairs.
- Professor Conner, who is a hypnotist, has a daughter, Pearl. Pearl flirts with several young men and is each time seen by the professor. Some of her young men come to the house and annoy the professor by whistling in the garden. He runs out on one occasion and beats one of them with a club. This, however, does not stop the nuisance, so he determines to try hypnotism as a cure. He writes a letter to his friend, Mr. Cusick, that he will give his daughter treatment, and she discovers the letter. When he gives her this treatment she pretends to be affected by it, and says that she hates all men. Mr. Cusick calls, and on speaking to Pearl has his hair pulled as part of her hatred to the opposite sex. Meanwhile, Chester, the beau she likes best, calls on the professor to be treated for bashfulness, and the professor, after giving him treatment, tells him he will be bold. Just then Pearl enters the room, and Chester, proving the professor's contention, runs off with Pearl and returns showing the professor their marriage certificate. They tell him hypnotism did it. and he has no other course than to give the usual parental blessing.
- Mrs. Talboys orders a new hat for $149, adorned with beautiful feathers. She tries it on and then goes in to show it to her husband, who almost goes frantic when he hears the fabulous price has to pay for it. Mrs. Talboys decides to go out for a walk through the estate near her home. This estate is the property of Sir Michael McGlug, who is very fond of hunting. Mrs. Talboys stoops down behind some shrubbery and at the same time Sir Michael McGlug alights from his automobile, and thinking the feathers on Mrs. Talboys' hat are the feathers of a mocking bird, he shoots at her. Mrs. Talboys, overcome by the shock, almost faints, and Sir Michael and his valet help her into the machine. He brings her to his home and immediately they fall in love with each other. Mr. Talboys reads of the incident of the shooting and, believing his wife is dead, he leaves the old home. Mrs. Talboys returns, only to find that her husband is gone. Believing he has deserted her, she consents to marry Sir Michael. A friend of Talboys visits him and Talboys tells him his tale of woe, showing him his wife's photograph. The friend next visits Sir Michael and recognizes Lady Audley. He rushes to Talboys' home and tells him of his discovery.
- Pearl and Chester, her sweetheart, rehearse amateur theatricals so as to have an excuse for their lovemaking. As a result they incur the displeasure of Pearl's Pa and he forbids Chester calling at the house. This Chester refuses to agree to and Pa is compelled to kick him out on his next visit. The next day Chester writes Pearl a note asking her to meet him that afternoon in the park near her home. Pa gets bold of the note and devises a scheme to once for all get rid of the unwelcome suitor. He makes sure that Pearl intends keeping the appointment and then he hires a tough to beat Chester up as he waits in the park for Pearl. The tough that Pa hired gets hurt in an accident and he induces his friend, another ruffian, to take his place and to give the waiting victim a very severe trouncing. Pearl is about a half hour late in keeping the appointment and Chester sees Pearl's Pa waiting also, a little distance away. Chester sees that Pa is on to the game so he strolls away just as the tough comes into view. Pa determines to wait until Pearl shows up and thinks that he will be able to cure her of her infatuation. The tough mistakes Pa for the man he is supposed to beat up, and sets sail for him. He literally cuts the old man to pieces, when Chester happens to turn and see it. He rescues Pa and takes him home. Pearl is just about leaving, but Pa, thankful for his rescue, joins the young couple's hands and insists that Chester is a real hero and worthy of Pearl's hand.
- Chester is kidnapped by a jealous rival. Pearl is engaged to find him. A box is bought in which Chester is to be put and shipped back to his lady love. Pearl releases Chester and hides in the box, hoping to capture the criminals. The box is thrown onto a wagon and proceeds on its way. After falling off and badly marring Pearl's neat appearance and stunning beauty, the box is delivered at its destination, where Pearl is released. She is rewarded with a ten-dollar bill by Chester for saving his life, and she determines to give up detecting and engage in something more satisfying.
- Dazzle and his wife have a quarrel at the breakfast table. While lighting a cigarette, he sets his newspaper on fire and bums his fingers. His wife's aunt visits them and makes matters worse by insisting that he suffers no pain. She is a Christian Scientist. Dazzle resolves on a hunting trip and writes a friend in Baltimore to wire his wife that business will detain him there for three days. He goes hunting and mistakes a man with a fur coat for a bear, shoots him and gets severely beaten. He gets in other trouble and comes home with a black eye. His wife comes up to his room and opens the door. He claims she hit him in the eye with it. Later, however, the fake telegram arrives, and his deception is discovered.
- Lizzie is imbued with the idea that she is not fitted for her duties as a kitchen mechanic, but that her attainments should gel her a job as a heroine in the moving pictures. She goes to a studio and induces the director to give her a trial. Then things happen. She breaks up scene ad causes consternation among the others actors, especially the leading lady, over whom she causes to be spilled a plate of soup. She is fined two dollars. After a hard day's work, she is handed her day's pay, which after deducting the fines, amounts to fifty cents. She goes back to her kitchen convinced that her place is by the gas range and not in a studio.
- Slowboy loves Vivian Catchon, but does not know how to woo her. In the morning, before she arrives, he places a bouquet of roses on her typewriter. She is very pleased with them and while she is telling him of her appreciation, the boss enters. Slowboy and Vivian at once attend to their respective duties. Later the boss asks Slowboy if he loves his stenographer. Slowboy admits his love for Miss Catchon, and the boss tells him he can give him a few tips on lovemaking. Slowboy accepts the boss's suggestion of teaching him how to make love. While Slowboy is peeking through the door, the boss enters and speaks to Vivian. He then flatters her; finally he kisses her. This is too much for Slowboy; he darts out of the doorway and paces up and down the inner office undecided. In the meantime the boss has proposed to Vivian and she accepts him. Slowboy enters, she refuses to notice him, telling him she will have nothing more to do with him, as she is engaged to the boss. After a time the boss tells Vivian he was only fooling. She asks Slowboy what is the best course to pursue. She then decides to sue him for breach of promise and seeks the services of her lawyer. The lawyer and Vivian, with Slowboy at their heels, enter Boldman's office. That they might come to an agreement the boss and Vivian are left alone. The boss tries to explain the situation but Vivian refuses to listen. After a great deal of coaxing they at length come to an agreement. He again proposes to her and is accepted.
- Mr. Bird leaves his wife to go on a business trip. Her maid also leaves for a short vacation. Mrs. Bird decides to close up house and visit her mother. She writes a note to the milkman and the baker, instructing them not to leave milk or rolls at the house for two days. This note she pins to the door. Her husband suddenly returns home, however, and seeing the note assumes that his wife has gone away. He goes on a foraging expedition for something to eat. Mrs. Bird also decides that her place is in her home and returns unexpectedly. She goes upstairs. She hears a noise and is convinced that a burglar is present. She gets a revolver and goes downstairs. Smith also thinks there is a burglar in the house. Then ensues a series of maneuvers that finally results in each gaining the street, the wife first, and getting the services of a minion of the law. Each returns with a minion, but hubby returns with his protection first. The cop comes upon hubby and a terrific battle ensues. Mrs. Bird finally comes to her spouse's rescue. The officer leaves the couple to console each other as best they can.
- Antonio McSweeney's masterpiece was a beautiful life-size portrait of Cleopatra. It adorned a special niche in Antonio's studio. One evening Antonio falls asleep in the studio. He dreams Cleopatra comes to life and the snake around her neck also becomes imbued with life. She charms the snake and then tells Antonio that if he wants her to love him he must wear a suit of armor. This Antonio does. The bear rug comes to life as a great big bear. Things happen. Antonio is just about to embrace the fair Cleo and tell her how much he loves her when his wife, missing him, comes down to the studio and rudely awakens him.
- Weary steals the major's uniform, dons it and in the woods, saves Pearl from a mad dog. Considering him her hero, she invites him home. Believing him a military officer, she wines and dines him to his heart's content. After leaving, under the influence of liquor, he falls asleep in the woods. Here he is found by some soldiers, who, reading the major's name in the hat, take him to the major's home. Told of the theft sometime previously, the major is out hunting for the tramp. Weary tries to flirt with his wife. When the major returns there is trouble. Weary refuses to give up his uniform. The police are called in and Weary's lark ends in jail.
- Pearl White and Chester Barnett start out simultaneously on a visit to their mutual friends, the Mortons. Pearl and Chester have never met. Pearl's auto breaks down and she is forced to walk through the woods. Meanwhile, two lunatics, a man and a woman escape from the asylum and are roaming around the woods. Their beepers are on a lookout for them. The lunatics quarrel and separate. The man meets Pearl and frightens her. She runs and he runs after her. The woman lunatic is sitting on a rock when Chester approaches. He tries to control the wretched woman, when she hits at him with a club and chases him away. The keepers come upon the man and bring him back to the asylum while the other one goes hunting for the woman. Pearl and Chester run into each other, after having met the keeper who had informed each of them to be on the lookout for a lunatic. They mistake each other as insane and nm. Pearl reaches the home of the Mortons and upon entering the parlor finds Chester wailing in a chair for his guests, who impatient at their not appearing had gone to the station to find out what kept them. Pearl gets a knife and chases Chester out of the house. There he is met by the wild woman who also chases him. They run into the arms of the keeper and Chester tells him there is another lunatic in the house, meaning Pearl. They enter and the Mortons who have returned, introduce Pearl and Chester and all is well, while the keeper drags the unhappy loon back to her padded cell.
- Charlie advertises for a wife. Madeline Blue, widow, writes Charlie to the effect that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a white rose while she will do the same. The queen of the anarchists also writes to a prospective member who is anxious to meet her, that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a white rose. The queen and Charlie are the first to arrive at the meeting place. Charlie is dragged off to the anarchist's rendezvous by the queen under the impression that he is an applicant for membership. The other man meets Madeline and accompanies her home where she and her uncle are arrested under suspicion of being bomb throwers. The stranger turned out to be a detective. After many difficulties the girl and her uncle are released. Meanwhile Charlie has had his trouble. He finally makes his escape after having been ordered to blow up the judge, and succeeds in meeting Madeline and developing quite a romance.
- Chester is in love with Pearl. Pearl is very fond of him but spends most of her time fondling and caressing Toodleums, her wee little dog, Chester has absolutely no use for Toodleums and is insanely jealous of him. He visits Pearl and she persists in paying more attention to the dog than she does to him. Chester conspires to get rid of Toodleums and hires a tough to steal him. The tough lies in wait outside of Pearl's home and at the first opportunity he steals Toodleums. He runs away and sells him to a stranger for $1. The stranger afterwards meets Chester and Pearl and Chester claims Toodleums and demands his return. This the stranger refuses until he is paid $30. Pearl compels Chester to pay this amount despite Chester's protestations. Meanwhile the tough who had stolen the dog anxiously awaits his pay and demands payment. Chester refuses and the tough vows vengeance. He decides to tell Pearl that Chester put him up to steal Toodleums and Pearl confronts Chester with this information. Chester, of course, denies it, but the tough appears and he cannot deny it; Pearl orders him from the house and he leaves lamenting his loss of both the girl and the $30.
- Hartley, an attorney, leaves his wife and child to visit the city on business. At the theater he falls a victim to the charms of Lola, the star of the production. Meeting her afterward, he is fascinated by her beauty and she, in turn, admires him. Hartley visits her often and the attachment grows, Lola the while unaware that Hartley is married. She visits his town one day and calls at the house. She talks to a child, who seems to be very fond of its father. When the picture, given her by the child, discloses the face of Hartley, Lola nearly collapses. Hartley returns and begs her not to disclose his secret attachment. For the sake of the child Lola keeps silent and returns to the city, where she forgets her love. In time, in the lure of the stage.
- Bob is given a vacation. He says good-bye to his girl and promises to write her every day. First he tries his hand at fishing. He chooses a lake where there is a sign warning people against trespassing. He is caught, arrested and fined fifty dollars. He pays. The next day he meets an automobilist, who offers him a ride. He accepts. They speed along and the sheriff arrests him again, this time for speeding. He is again fined. He pays and is dead broke. He tries to get out of his hotel without paying his bill and the landlord discovers it. He swears out a warrant. Bob climbs out the window and tries to race out of town, but falls into the hands of the sheriff. He is again arrested and is sentenced to thirty days in jail for trying to beat his hotel bill. Meanwhile, the girl anxiously awaits word from him. He is released, returns home and finds that the girl has forsaken him for his best friend The next year when the boss offers Bob a vacation, he quietly refuses.
- Charlie suffers very greatly with a toothache. He tries all sorts of remedies, but is unable to alleviate his pain. He finally ties a rope to the gas jet, thinking he can pull it out by walking away but instead pulls the equipment from the ceiling and floods the house with the odor. Commotion reigns and most of the tenants suffocate. He then tries other stunts which succeed only in generally breaking up the house. He dives out of the window onto a woman washing and precipitates her into the tub. Still suffering he runs out into the street where he gets into an argument with a young man and they engage in fisticuffs. During the battle the young man hits Charlie on the jaw and knocks the bad tooth out, whereupon Charlie embraces him joyfully.
- Mr. Cool acts that way towards his wife. She is angry because he is not more demonstrative in his affections. She writes a letter so that he can see it, telling a friend of hers that she has decided to flirt desperately with some young man. Hubby reads the letter. Ferdie Fly, a masher, follows Mrs. Cool the nest day and enters her house. He pretends that he is a ladies tailor and presents a card to her. Hubby is in the next room. Ferdie makes love to Mrs. Cool. Mr. Cool takes two revolvers and loads them with blank cartridges. He enters the room and demands that Ferdie fight him a duel, and orders Mrs. Cool into the next room. She goes. The men raise their pistols and, on a shot from Ferdie's revolver Mr. Cool drops to the floor. Ferdie runs out of the house frightened. Mrs. Cool enters the room and is horror stricken to find her husband supposedly dead. She decides to join him and tries to shoot herself, while Hubby, on the floor is enjoying the huge joke. Three times she shoots herself, and falls to the floor but on each occasion she is surprised that she is still uninjured. Meanwhile Ferdie has rushed into a policeman's arms and informed him that he has killed a man. They return to the house whereupon Mr. Cool sits up and Ferdie rushes pell-mell away from the supposed ghost, while Mr. and Mrs. Cool make up, she promising never to flirt again.
- Miss Finch writes to a matrimonial agency for a husband. The agency sends Mr. I.S. Sharp with a letter of introduction. He loses the letter. Chester Burnett, fresh young drummer, finds the letter and visits the house. He meets Miss Finch's niece, Irene, and is very much taken up with her. She explains that the letter is for her aunt and inflicts Miss Finch on Chester. Miss Finch goes to get something for Chester to drink, but he escapes before her return, and goes out into the garden with Irene. Meanwhile the real Sharp arrives, and he and Chester have quite an altercation as to who is who. Just then a telegram arrives from the matrimonial agency explaining that Sharp is a bigamist, and to please hold him until the police arrive. Miss Finch sends for the constable, who arrives, and being unable to determine who is Sharp, takes both Chester and Sharp to the lock-up. Irene then finds Chester's valise, with his name on it, and thus effects his release. He makes love to Irene and Miss Finch being left to her own resources, continues her untiring efforts to find a man.
- Belmont courts the widow and her friend at the same time. He makes excuses to one and calls on the other after promising to take the first to the theater. Unsuspecting, she calls on her friend and finds Belmont there. She unmasks his perfidy and he is accorded very drastic treatment, eventually getting an unsought for wetting from Miss Flatt. She gets a seltzer bottle and speedily, though viciously, brings him to his senses.
- Vivian and her ma decide to take in boarders. Charlie, a tramp, is sleeping in the field. A lunatic being chased by guards throws away his valise. Charlie opens it and finds a new suit of clothes, which he dons. He finds a card in the pocket belonging to the Baron de Gezac and decides to impersonate him. He arrives at Vivian's house and decides to take a room there. When Vivian and her ma learn that he is a Baron they both fall in love with him. There is a battle between mother and daughter as to which will win their illustrious guest. Later ma concocts a scheme to win Charlie. She writes a letter telling a man she has $20,000 to invest. Charlie reads the letter and immediately transfers his affection to ma. Meanwhile the guards are looking for the lunatic Baron. The lunatic reads the sign, "'Boarders Wanted," and also takes a room with Vivian and her ma. The two men are introduced and each claims to be the Baron. Then comes trouble for all. Charlie is captured in mistake for the lunatic. When released he vows never to impersonate a Baron again.
- Once again the John Alden routine proves a disaster to a romantic duo.
- Beautiful Bella has two beaus, John whom she likes and Percy whom she tolerates. John is bashful and Bella plays Percy to wake John into a declaration. But Percy becomes a nuisance; he also scares John away. Percy takes Bella for a walk in the park. Then Bella, dressed in her prettiest, jumps into the lake and takes Percy with her. Despite this treatment, Percy sticks. So Bella hires "Kid" Long, a tough nut, to scare Percy. John overhears the girl's plot. Then John pays "Kid" a big prize to let him pose as a hero. "Kid" throws a big scare into Percy who runs away. John gets in a fake "knockout" on the "Kid" and thereby wins Bella who believes him to be a hero.
- Mr. Stout, fat, is lazy. He refuses to exert himself. Mrs. Stout, thin, directly opposite, and cannot understand his lazy proclivities. Their servant girl, Lizzie, is also lazy. Mrs. Stout procures a bottle of medicine which is called "Vitalo," supposed to make people active. Lizzie is entertaining her beau, the cop. and refuses to move. Mrs. Stout pours some of the "Vitalo" into her milk. Lizzie and the cop drink and immediately become victims of speed. They dance about in whirlwind fashion, until the cop becomes exhausted and leaves. Mrs. Stout, seeing the effect, decides to try it on her husband. She puts a dose in his coffee, and immediately the lazy man becomes a whirlwind of activity. He invites his wife to go for an auto ride. This they do, and in the middle of the road the auto breaks down. Stout, full of the strange "Vitalo." gets out and pull the auto all the way home. Coming into the house, he joins Lizzie in generally scattering things about, much to Mrs. Stout's discomfiture. Mrs. Stout, after viewing the wreckage, decides that she would rather have her husband lazy.
- Viola is an aristocratic girl. She is paid attention by three men, whom she dangles on a string. The boys try to win her. Her game is to keep them all and then select the one she likes best. The boys, however, tire of Viola's treatment and seek other girls. Viola goes out one day and the boys with other girls. They ignore her, and she realizes too late that it does not pay to trifle with men's hearts.
- Flossie was of a forgetful turn of mind. She has two gentlemen friends, Chester and Joe. They both call on her, Joe being there first. Chester arrives and Joe determines to go. Flossie walks with him to the hallway and absent-mindedly gives him Chester's coat. She forgets all about Chester, who is sitting in the parlor, and walks out with Joe. They walk about a block and then Joe discovering Chester's overcoat, they return. Chester meanwhile has been impatiently waiting Flossie's return. She enters with Joe and he gets the right overcoat. He leaves, this time alone. Chester proposes to Flossie, is accepted, and he gives her a ring. The next day she is out walking with him. Chester goes across the street to mail a letter and Joe passes in his auto. She calls him and they ride away together, forgetting completely that Chester ever existed. Joe, after taking her home, proposes to her and she accepts. He goes to put a ring on her finger when he notices the other. Chester enters at that moment and explains to Joe's chagrin, that the forgetful girl is his promised bride. They go to the minister and are married. She forgets who she is married to and kisses the minister, much to that reverend gentleman's consternation. However, Chester determines that he can cure her of her forgetfulness and all ends well.
- Sarah and Molly with their husbands arrives at the seashore. There are many pretty girls on the beach and Gus and Mike do not pay any attention to their wives because they are not good looking. They refuse to take them down to the beach but go alone and enjoy some nice flirtation. Vivian, a very pretty girl, arrives at the cottage and Gus and Mike admire her very much. She flirts with them and later meets them. Then they make an appointment to go to the beach together. Vivian returns to the cottage and becomes acquainted with Sarah and Molly, who admire her pretty lace and clothes. Vivian promises to make them beautiful if they will consent, and immediately the girls consent. After Vivian's treatment a change of clothing the girls look very beautiful. Vivian then decides to make herself look very homely. She goes down to the beach to meet the men and gives them a surprise. They are shocked when they look at her and run, she chasing after them. Leaving Vivian they see Sarah and Molly, whom they do not recognize; they flirt with them and soon are having a nice little walk down the beach, but this is interrupted by Vivian, who soon returns to the cottage and again dons her pretty clothes and take the make-up from her face. Again she is the pretty girl. She goes down to the porch and gives Hans and Mike a second surprise by introducing them to their wives.
- Hans and Mike are fascinated by the beautiful actress, Miss Vivian De Gay. They haunt the stage door. Deciding to have some fun at their expense, she accepts an invitation to dine with them. Then she receives a telegram from her husband, who is a rough westerner and the owner of several gold mines, saying that be is on his way home. She leaves them before the meal is over. Her husband arrives. She tells him about Hans and Mike. He joins in the fun and has Vivian write them a letter asking them to call after the matinee. Hans and Mike take Vivian to a restaurant to dine. She phones her husband who hurries to the restaurant. While they are enjoying themselves, he, unseen by Hans and Mike, takes his wife's place at the table and places two pistols under their noses. There are some doings when Hans and Mike see the westerner. When the shooting begins Hans and Mike do a marathon that is a riot.
- Pearl and Jess decide to have some fun with their sweethearts, Chester and Archie. Archie is giving a party and the girls not being invited make up their minds to disguise as boys and have some fun on their own hook. Jess dances to Pearl's music and a great crowd gathers. Archie sees them and invites them into his party. They go, and entertain. They are given some money. On their departure they kiss their respective sweethearts, much to their surprise. When they are gone, Chester misses his pocketbook and suspects the "boys" of having stolen it. He gives chase to them and they run. Jess is finally caught, but Pearl comes to her rescue and beats Chester off by pulling his hair. Chester returns and his pocketbook is found. That evening the girls let their beaux into their secret that they were the "boys" who caused all the fun.