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- Father, who had promised $5,000 to Jay, his son-in-law, as soon as he has a cozily furnished home, writes he is coming for a visit on the very day the unpaid for furniture is being taken away. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are moving and the truck driver inquires the way of Jay, who directs them to his own house. The furniture is delivered, father arrives and is just about to present the young couple with the promised $5,000 when the Smiths come in and have all the furniture removed. Father understands, and, admiring the nerve of Jay, promises the newlyweds to buy them furniture they will be able to keep.
- Billie is the girl of Jay's dreams, but the fickle creature leaves him on the curb while she goes to ride with Jack, another suitor. Jay wanders down the street in dejection when he suddenly spies an item in a newspaper telling how a young heiress has just married a man whom she injured with her automobile. He spies Billie and Jack coming down the street with Billie at the wheel of Jack's car. He steps off the curb just in time to be struck by the machine. He is carried into the doctor's house and put into bed. Jack, sighting a clipping which has fallen from Jay's pocket, and realizing what his rival has done, gets himself into a similar predicament and is carried into the room with Jay. Billie discovers the scheme and organizes a conspiracy with the doctor. The medic orders Jay steamed and Jack put into an ice pack. The hospital huskies have just got the treatment well started, the patients have just begun to suffer, when the doctor announces that a mistake has been made and orders the treatment reversed. The patients are finally released, and as they jump out of bed they see Billie speeding down the street in Jack's car with the doctor at her side.
- A young woman's father wants her to marry a man of his choice rather than her own. Her sweetheart, a young doctor, in a plot to win out, has had her carried home, apparently injured from a fall from her horse. He is then sent for to attend her, and effecting a wonderful cure, wins the sympathy of the father and the hand of the maiden.
- The fact that Billie endeavors to teach her friend's husband to dance, without the knowledge of friend wife, almost results in the wreckage of the marital ship, but when wifie learns that her husband can dance, matters are set aright.
- Mary is a hard-working little woman, afflicted with a lovable but shiftless brother, Jay, who spends his time flirting and keeping out of a job. Mary decides to get him a regular job, and goes to an employment agency, where she comes in contact with a woman of doubtful age, but girlish tastes and fancies, who owns a confectionery store at the beach. Jay falls hard for the job, with visions of his dapper and white-coated self mixing ice-cream sodas for bevies of beautiful girls. His dream is realized. He becomes a hero of the puppy love class. But the spinster person develops evidences of wild jealousy. It becomes apparent that Jay has been hired more as a male companion than as a dispenser of sodas. The climax comes when she closes the store that Jay may teach her to swim. He eludes the old girl time and again, but she shows up again and again until Mary, on an inspection trip, comes along. He makes a solemn promise that if Mary will but take him away he will go to work and stay there.
- Billie takes it upon herself to raise $500 for charity, much against the advice and pleadings of her fiancé. She starts her subscriptions in the building in which Jay's office is located, and as she proceeds from office to office, meets with a variety of unwelcome invitations to lunch and dinner. Despairing of procuring the subscriptions, she goes to Jay's office and reports her experiences, whereupon he proceeds to administer reprimands to the offending individuals. He eventually settles a damage bill and police court account for some $500, in addition to the check for $100 which he turns over to Billie for "Sweet Charity."
- Mary is wedded to her art, but Art Gordon wants her to marry him. Being rejected, he leaves the city. Mary's parents decided that the artistic life is not the life for Mary, and brother William arrives to take her home. Mary tells her brother she is married, and William mistakes Ernie, a married friend of Mary's, for her husband, and his wife for her maid. The friends decide to carry out the deception to relieve Mary's embarrassment. Ernie's wife becomes jealous and complications ensue. William decides to stay overnight to convince himself that sis is really married. Art Gordon returns to the city and calls up William. Mary tells him to bring a minister instanter. While the marriage is being performed, William wakes up, grabs a shot-gun and holds up the party. Mary is forced to explain and presents her real husband, Art Gordon.
- Father objects to Jack, so Jack dresses up as a butler to gain entrance into Mary's home.
- A man and woman meet at a summer resort and make each other think they are rich.
- Jack, who is engaged to Billie, is attracted by Vera, and makes an appointment to meet her. He pleads a headache in order to keep the date, and Billie gives him a pill from a box which she finds on the table. Billie tells her mother that she has given one of the pills to Jack, and wild excitement prevails when Billie learns that her mother had substituted bichloride of mercury for the real pills. Billie rushes to Jack's apartment, where she meets his chum, Fred, and tells him of the mistake. Fred calls Jack on the telephone at the Gaylife Café, where he is enjoying himself with Vera. Jack is to return to the apartment, pretend illness, while Fred is to return disguised as a doctor. Billie, however, has called a doctor, who administers strenuous treatment. Jack pays the price of his faithlessness, but Billie never learns, and all ends happily.
- There is a rivalry of two suitors for Mary's hand, and one of these suitors resorts to the despicable means of "faking" Jack's personal diary, and thus making sure that Mary is apprised of the alleged fact that Jack has bet $100 that he will become engaged to her within a week. Mary, true to form, decides to give Jack the lesson of his life - so becomes engaged to him and at a party permits the engagement to be announced. It is. And straightaway Mary forbids Jack to smoke, drink, play cards or dance with any other girl. Poor Jack realizes the shackles thus imposed and seeks to relieve himself of the engagement pact, when he learns that his rival, Jim, has inscribed the memo in his (Jack's) diary and there's a wild battle, after which Mary acknowledges her deception in engaging herself to Jack, and they both decide to bury the hatchet and really become engaged.
- An heiress lends her house to a young couple who are entertaining a wealthy bachelor. To complete the picture, the heiress also poses as the chauffeur and maid.
- Billie and Cullen, after a brief matrimonial voyage, mutiny. He goes to the mountains and leaves Billie. Auntie, who intends to make Cullen her heir if he is happily married, arrives. Billie stalls and says hubby is entertaining customers. He is entertaining, but it is another girl. He returns when Billie sends an urgent call, Elsie, the other girl, coming too. Luckily, Billie and Auntie are out dining with one of Cullen's chums. They all meet in a café. Cullen has a scrap with his supposed rival and Billie doesn't smile sweetly at Elsie. Afterward, when Cullen explains they are "customers" and Elsie is delighted to change escorts, things are lovely.
- Mary is always stealing her older sister's sweethearts, so she receives orders to keep in the background. She is compelled to dress as a child to give "Sis" a chance. But on the night of the big dance she locks her sister and mother in the room and captures big sister's best beau. When "Sis" escapes she finds her beau's wife has shown up and Mary is forgiven.
- The story centers about a double love affair, which includes a widow and widower and a son and daughter of each. The parents to avoid having the young couple discover their flirtation plan to keep them apart temporarily, but by means of a frame-up, in which the young woman pretends to be drowning and the young man posing as a colored servant, rescues her, matters are straightened out
- Mary is in love with Jack, a daring young aviator, but father favors an elderly suitor possessed of wealth. Persuading her girl chum to act as a vamp, the aged suitor is captivated and transfers his affections to Mary's friend, who promises to marry him. When father learns the situation, he reluctantly consents to Jack as a son-in-law, and a double wedding is arranged. Mary is married first, but the second ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of a man accompanied by two children, who wants to know why his wife (Mary's chum) doesn't come home and get his supper ready. The ancient and prospective bridegroom gives up in disgust. Mary's chum goes out to lunch with the alleged husband, who is an accomplice in the plot, while Mary and Jack start on their honeymoon.
- Jay and Billie, disguised as Buster Brown and his dog, went to the Brown's masquerade party. Jay loved his fireside and rest. At the first opportunity he escapes from the ball room. The sight of a tramp suggested an idea to the hero and a few dollars convinced the Knight of the Ties, so he put on his disguise and joined the party. After having visited the refreshment room the tramp got into a fight with one of the guests and behaved with Billie and all the others like a real dog. And in the meantime Jay was sleeping. Finally Mrs. Brown called up the police department. In the meantime Jay had changed clothes with the tramp and, disguised again, walks into the ballroom. He finds Billie sore at him and a policeman who wants to take him to the police station. Jay escapes and after a lively chase enters the Brown's home again. The tramp, too, returns - is recognized by Jay, who explains to Billie.
- Mary decides to meet the young man her father has selected as her life mate, but that meeting must take place on terms which she will lay down. Mary pictures the young man, whom she has never seen, as indolent and absolutely untrustworthy, who sees only her dollars and who doubtless would not trouble himself about her were she penniless. She, therefore, poses as a hard-working sewing girl and, "overcome by starvation and overwork," she faints right in his path. Contrary to her prediction, however. Jack carries her to her home, stocks the larder with the necessities of life and eventually learns the girl's identity, when all goes well.
- Billie and her sweetheart have a lovers' quarrel, and he refuses to take her home from a dance when she flirts with other men, and she is compelled to accept the escort of the butler. On the way she is insulted by a drunken man and is saved by a chivalrous mechanic, who beats up the drunk and escorts her home. When her sweetheart attempts a reconciliation, the mechanic beats him up, under the impression that he is a stranger. Billie forgives her battered lover and heals his bruised body and affections.
- Mary is pushing a baby carriage and decides to enter a department store. Jack offers to watch the baby while she shops, but once the baby starts crying he runs all over the store to find her again.
- Winnie only has eyes for Jack but her father hates the very sight of him. In fact, he hates him so much that when he hears that his daughter is planning a date while he's out, he decides to hide in the bushes in order to clobber the lad with a club. Winnie manages to warn Jack and once he is in the house, they settle on a plan. Winnie's neighbor is a minister and he is under quarantine for smallpox. Winnie is in possession of some red ink. Unfortunately, Father sees the duo getting all spotted up and decides to teach them a lesson by having the local policeman force them into quarantine for real-and claim that he is infected with the disease himself. Winnie and Jack are naturally horrified at being exposed to the contagious policeman but once he leaves, they realize that there's nothing stopping them from getting married. After all, the minister's contagiousness is a bit of a moot point, so they ask him to come over and wed them. It all ends in a whirlwind of revelations (nobody actually has smallpox, as it turns out).
- Daisy is a musical comedy star. Her manager decides to put her in a rural drama, and sends her to a farm to study types and acquire the rube dialect. Down on the farm Hiram, the hired man, is in love with Tildy, the farmer's daughter. A handsome new hired man flirts with Daisy, makes a hit with Tildy, and Hiram is ditched. He tells his troubles to Daisy, who takes a hand in the game. She coaches Tildy to make violent love to the new hired man, who, tired of the game, spurns her. Daisy arranges that Pa, Ma and Hiram witness the hired man's perfidy. The hired man makes a sudden departure, Tildy and Hiram are reconciled, while Daisy returns to start rehearsals for the drama. When the leading man of the company appears he turns out to be the hired man, who had also gone to the country for "atmosphere." He gets a shock when he discovers that Daisy is the leading lady. Tildy's pa arrives and starts to clean up with the actor-hired-man, saying he has broken Tildy's heart. Hiram and Tildy, just married, come on the scene, and disaster is averted. Both Daisy and the leading man had got enough "atmosphere" to put the play across, and rehearsals begin.
- The title, "Their Little Kid" is apt, if the commoner vernacular be recognized in comedy, as doubtless it will be. In its double meaning lies the foundation of the theme, for this young married couple are happy and live in expectation of a substantial windfall from Jack's rich uncle. Uncle wires them one day that he is about to visit them as he is anxious to "see the kid." Thinking uncle means their baby, which so far has not put in an appearance, and fearful of disappointing Uncle, Jack sallies forth to round up a youngster by hook or crook. He first steals one from a nurse in the park, only to discover later that the child is of ebony hue.
- The wedding party is waiting for the bride, but Mary (Billie Rhodes) is visiting a friend who has a sick baby, and the baby's malady is diagnosed as smallpox and the house with the complete party is quarantined. The groom-to-be recalls that Mary is visiting a friend, and not knowing the facts he calls on her and the result is that he is cornered in the quarantine too. The diagnosis was made by a disappointed lover of Mary's who had been called in professionally. A little later, however, another doctor says the child is simply suffering from prickly heat and the quarantine is raised and wedding bells ring.