Overall-wearing Francis X. Bushman and Mildred Weston are in love. However, Mildred's wealthy mother, Helen Dunbar wants her daughter to marry an aristocrat -- any aristocrat. So Bushman goes to a costuming shop in this Essanay short comedy.
Comedies in which working-class men disguised themselves as aristocrats to fool the snobbish parents of the girls they loved were a staple of short comedies, with well-remembered examples from Chaplin to the Three Stooges. This is a well-executed and early example of the trope. Mr. Bushman has a lot of fun in the part as everyone recognizes him except the bedazzled Dunbar.
Bushman had a long and interesting career. He reached his peak in the 1920s, when he played Messala in the silent version of BEN-HUR and continued to act until his death in 1966, when he pleased older viewers in THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI.