Charley Chase and Virginia Chester are in love. Who can blame them? In a boarding house where everyone else dresses to worst advantage and behaves like a maniac -- in Keystone's universe, that's everyone else -- they are young and good looking. In order to be accepted as a fitting bridegroom, Charley dresses is an ill-fitting suit and sticks a ridiculous beard on his face. This appeases the would-be in-laws.
Keystone had had young lovers before -- Mabel Normand wound up married in the movies to every major comic at the studio, most charmingly to Roscoe Arbuckle in a popular series that featured both their names.
Charley Chase would go on to the best career in comedy shorts that you never heard of, working steadily in front of and behind the camera with an amazing array of talent, from Keystone through the Three Stooges, and pull off the best performances from every one of them. Miss Chester started in movies in 1910 and vanished about 1919 -- I hope she had a good life. Nice to see them here.