- Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find that her nouveau-riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father spends all of his time at the club, her mother cultivates snobbishness, and her sister thinks only of marrying into royalty. To shake them out of their aristocratic poses, Bessie decides to reflect all of their faults, becoming as lazy as her father and as status conscious as her mother. She even rejects her own sweetheart, Allan Shelby, to lure Count d'Orr away from her sister. Finally, her family members confront her and she angrily tells them that she was only mirroring their behavior. She then runs away, but Allan, with whom she quickly reconciles, brings her back, just as her family acknowledges their recent burlesque of the upper crust.—Pamela Short
- The Wheaton family are among the "new rich" and their sudden prosperity has turned their heads--except for Bessie's. She has gone abroad and returned more sensible than ever, and thoroughly disgusted with her family. Young Allen Shelby is greatly attracted to her, but he is unprepared for the change that comes over the supposedly-sensible Bessie when she, out of patience with her family, determines to teach them all a lesson. Her brother has engaged himself to a chorus girl; Bessie cultivates the girl's acquaintance and stimulates her way of acting, much to her brother's shame and Shelby's astonishment. Her sister is setting her cap for an impecunious nobleman and Bessie flirts so astonishingly with him that he transfers his affections, only to be sent on his way when the sister finally turns from him herself. In such fashion Bessie proceeds to reform the entire household, and when the family finally determines to take her to account for her ways, she turns on them and flings at their feet a diary she has kept, in which she sets out their faults in plain language. When she finally attempts to run away from the home that is so distasteful to her Shelby meets her and forces her to return. Meanwhile, her family has had an awakening, and they receive Bessie with open arms.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- When his family comes into sudden wealth, a young man is naively taken in by a gold-digging chorine who is out to grab his money. But the young man's sister proves wise in the ways of such women and acts to save her brother from the clutches of the vamp.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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