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- Modeled after a popular collection of stories known as "Brother Gardener's Lime Kiln Club," the plot features three suitors vying to win the hand of the local beauty.
- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
- Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.
- A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman, and before she knows it, she's pregnant.
- The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action-packed battle in a Western town.
- An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
- A tender young woman and her musician husband attempt to eke out a living in the slums of New York City, but find themselves caught in the crossfires of gang violence.
- A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters.
- A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
- A British archaeologist finds an ancient village that opens the door to a story of a Druid Ministre Airell in the time Christ and religious upheaval, revealing the mysteries of Briton, the Druids, the coming of a new world.
- A brother and his two younger sisters inherit a modest amount from their father. When the brother is away, their shady housekeeper decides to take it for herself.
- The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap.
- A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise. Grabbing a pistol, she enters her father's downstairs office where she confronts a masked intruder . . .
- Three outlaws, pursued by the posse, are crossing the desert when a child's cry halts them. Near a deserted wagon they see a mountain lion about to devour a baby, whose late guardians lie dead of thirst nearby. Driving off the beast, the outlaws rescue the baby, first feeding it and then taking it with them, despite the handicap of its presence. Attacked by Indians, they still refuse to desert "Little Pardner." In a running fight one outlaw is killed; another dies of thirst. The survivor escapes and, seeing the posse in the distance, fires a shot to attract their attention. The sheriff, coming up, is amazed to see, in the outlaw's arms, his own motherless baby, which he had left in the care of an old settler and his wife. The story told, he bids the outlaw go where he will, for he will never take him prisoner.
- A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
- When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining company. The train brings not only the money, but a pair of ruffians bent on stealing it. All alone, she wires for help, and then holds off the bad guys until it arrives.
- A very pretty girl is always surrounded by many male admirers, much to the dismay of one very shy fellow, who gets his chance to impress her when two burglars break in.
- An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead.
- Nora, a wild girl who lives with her alcoholic father, is forced to attend school. The untamed girl, who does not know how to socialize, is soon taunted by the other children. She warms towards the kind schoolteacher, as he befriends and encourages her, until she is told to wear the dunce cap at a spelling bee. She then angrily leaves the school and encounters a slick huckster. He convinces her they will run away and be married. Meanwhile, the schoolteacher, concerned over the waif's absence, goes looking for her. He encounters her at a crossroad, being spirited away by the cad. He calls the man's bluff by telling them he will get the minister to marry them at once. The huckster high-tails it out of town, leaving a rejected Nora. The caring schoolteacher, lovingly escorts her back to school.
- Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.
- Miss Louise Leroque was one of those charming young ladies, born, as if through an error of destiny, into a family of clerks, and after she married John Kendrick, she suffered an incessant yearning for all those delicacies and luxuries she felt were her due. John was a bighearted, indulgent husband whose every thought was for his wife's happiness, and while Louise was a devoted wife, still there was the strain of selfishness ever apparent, for she who studies her glass neglects her heart. She yearned for ostentation, and poor John was in no position to appease this desire. However, an occasion presents itself when they can at least bask in the radiance of the social limelight, in an invitation to attend a reception tendered a foreign prince. John is in the height of elation, hut Louise meets him with that time-honored remark, "I've nothing to wear." Well, he feels the strength of her argument, so goes and pawns his watch and chain to procure her a gown fitting for the occasion. The gown emphasizes the absence of jewel ornamentation, so they visit their friend and neighbor, who lends them a handsome necklace. At the reception she makes quite a stir and is presented to the prince, who becomes decidedly attentive. Arriving home after the affair, Louise rehearses the incidents of the event, when suddenly she stands petrified with horror. "My God! The necklace is gone." High and low they search, and even back to the ballroom, but without result, for we have seen it stolen from her neck by a sneak thief while she is talking with the prince. Unable to find the necklace, they swear to give their fingers to the bone, their life's blood until it is paid for. But then there is the humiliation of not returning the jewels, so they hunt for a duplicate. At the jeweler's they find one, in appearance an exact copy, but the price is $20,000. Twenty thousand dollars to ones in their condition meant a large fortune. However, John borrows money on his salary, gets loans from his various friends and is granted a large advance by his employer, giving notes for same: in fact, mortgaging his very life as the result of vanity. With the money he purchases the duplicate and gives it to their friend, who is unaware of the substitution. Meanwhile, the thief has taken the necklace to a pawnshop and finds it is a worthless imitation, and so throws it into the rubbish heap. Five years later we find the couple toiling, toiling, but still in bondage; after night in the endeavor to make a little extra above his ordinary salary. Ten years we find them, still hounded by the note collectors, aged and broken in health, yet determined. Twenty years, and the last penny on the necklace is paid, but at the expense of their bodily strength. Having cleared up his debt with his employer, he is discharged, being too feeble to do the work. As a last resort they write to their friend, confessing the substitution of the jewels, and their plight as a result, begging that she give them some slight assistance. Their friend, of course, is amazed, she cognizant of the worthlessness of her property, so hastens to give Louise back the jewels, arriving only in time to put them about her neck when she sinks back dead. John, poor fellow, is found sitting in a chair at the head of the bed, also dead. They had received vanity's reward.
- A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.
- No more popular fad has ever struck the feminine fancy than the peachbasket hat. This is a creation of headgear that for size outstrips anything yet designed by the disordered mind of the modiste. As a "skypiece" it is a "skyscraper," and in decoration it looks like a combination horticultural and food exhibition. Nevertheless, this mammoth "lid" was seized onto by the feminine world with the avidity of a boy for his first baseball suit. It is only natural that our friend, Mrs. Jones, should experience this obsession, and what woe it preambled! The Jones family are seated at breakfast. Mr. Jones is reading the morning paper. An account of a kidnapping by gypsies engages his attention, and he is filled with horror at the anticipation of the possible abduction of his young hopeful, a baby one year old. He tries to impress Mrs. J., but she is fascinated by the millinery "ads." The situation for Jones becomes more tense when on going outside he sees a couple of the odious gypsies with a child. Mrs. Jones takes herself off to buy a peachbasket, leaving baby in charge of the nurse, who, being of a romantic nature, enlists the services of the gypsies to tell her fortune. Mrs. Jones returns and almost catches the nursemaid, who is quite beside herself at her near discovery. Mrs. Jones places the huge box containing the hat on the table, while the nurse, placing the baby on the floor, assists in extricating the hat from its crate. Putting on the hat, Mrs. J. goes into the next room, followed by the maid, to view the effect in the mirror. .Mr. Jones now arrives, and his first thought is for baby; he cares naught for the peachbasket hat. Baby is nowhere to be seen. The nurse, in her excitement, does not remember where she placed it. Through the house they rush fruitlessly; out on the road and on after the disappearing gypsies, who are overtaken only to find that the baby the woman carries is not a Jones. The clouds of despair o'ershadow the couple in their dining-room, when suddenly the hat box on the floor is seen to move. There, under the hollow cube of pasteboard, is found baby Jones, the box having been blown by a gust of wind off the table over the child.
- In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land. Little do they dream of the subtle workings of fate, which is, of course, the natural egotism of humankind, but, nevertheless, the lines are being drawn, for as we have viewed the paradisaical side of life, we now go to the homely side, by visiting the sad house in Never-Never Land. Here we find sorrow, toiling and want, and yet we find as in the other a betrothal of convenience between the poor little lace-maker and the humble gardener. They reason that their lot may be more bountiful by joining their meager fortunes. The gardener secures a position in the gardens of the Lady and the lace-maker goes out to find purchasers of her handiwork. The Lord meets the pretty lace-maker and is attracted by her beauty, for he learns for the first time what love is. The Lady meets the gardener and is struck by his rugged, manly beauty and herculean strength, so different from the Lord, her neighbor. She also realizes the power of love, for her inclination to be near the gardener is irresistible. Despite the apparent misalliance in such a step, the Lady confesses she can only be happy with the humble gardener. This intelligence the Lord receives with ill-concealed delight, as it leaves him free to marry the pretty lace-maker.
- While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
- Mr. Wilkens gets drunk at his club one night and has to rely on the other clubmen to carry him home. In order to cure his drinking, Mrs. Wilkens and the clubmen conspire to play a trick on him. They enlist the aid of a young lady who writes to Mr. Wilkens accepting his marriage proposal of the night before. Mr. Wilkens tries frantically to keep his wife from finding out what he supposedly did.
- A man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man. Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering since her mother died. But when they venture out in search of breakfast, Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling into a cave. There, he hits upon the design for a club: A rock on the end of a stick. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again.
- The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
- In a tenement boarding-house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing that the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him, followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet-fever-quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
- A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He gives the naive girl an engagement ring and promises to marry her. When the peddler runs up some gambling debts, he visits the maid again and tells her they cannot marry until he has enough money to pay off his debt. While the farmer and his wife are asleep, the maid foolishly steals their money. The peddler takes the money and leaves on a train to get out of town. Overcome with guilt, the young maid runs away from the farm. Meanwhile the peddler gets into a fight and is thrown off the train. The maid stumbles upon him by the railroad tracks. She finds the money on the peddler and returns it to the farm couple before they even knew it was missing.
- In this latter-day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the young intruder with murder. How can the burglar prove his innocence?
- The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.
- Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured a gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidently discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme . . .
- Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.
- An old soldier on the frontier, the father of a dozen children, a staunch patriot himself, brings these children up with rigid military training. He conducts his household as a garrison with strict discipline, drills, etc. On the evening of the day the picture opens, the oldest boy wishes to go out to make a call on his sweetheart, but the old soldier commands the boy to stay at home. This command the boy is loath to obey, but his father, himself brought up under rigid military rule, rails at his insubordination of the boy, and threatens that if the boy goes out he goes for good. The boy does go, however, and returning finds sure enough the door barred against him. Sad and homeless he wanders, but it is fortunate he goes for the next morning he views from a distance a tribe of Indians starting out on the warpath. With this lead, he with valiant effort, secures the aid of a troop of patrolling soldiers, who rescue the boy's family and sweetheart just in time. The military training imbued by the old soldier stood in good, as it was the means of holding the Indians at bay until help arrived.
- In the little Italian city of Cremona there dwelt Taddeo Ferrari, a violin maker and student of Andrea Amati, the most famous of the craft. Ferrari's pretty daughter, Giannina, was beloved by one of his apprentices, Sandro. Filippo, a crippled youth and the best violin maker in Cremona, also loved the girl with a pure, holy affection that is more spiritual than material, but realizing his unattractiveness through his deformity, suffers his hopelessness with resignation. Yearly there is a prize of a precious chain of gold awarded to the maker of the best violin, and all the apprentices strive to win it. On this occasion, however, the hand of Giannina is to be bestowed upon the most proficient craftsman, and this induces the young men to make extra efforts to win. Sandro fully appreciates the rare talent of Filippo and feels sure his wonderful skill will win his sweetheart from him. Crushed and despairing he seeks out Giannina and tells her his fears, she tearfully acknowledging the strength of his reasoning. While thus occupied they are overheard by Filippo, who sees what woe his success would mean for her, and thinking only of her happiness, through his great love for her he makes a great sacrifice. Going to his room he takes his instrument and goes and places it in Sandro's box, taking Sandro's violin and putting it in his own. Sandro, however, thwarts the good intention of Filippo by exchanging the instruments, not knowing what Filippo had done, thereby upsetting the planned munificence of the cripple. When the instruments are placed in competition, and the prizes are about to be awarded, Sandro's conscience pricks him, and calling the cripple aside, confesses his deed. Filippo bursts into taunting laughter, telling him what he, himself, had done, and now he spoiled it all. Judgment is passed and Filippo is, of course, the victor. The chain is placed about his neck, and the hand of Giannina placed in his. But also, he feels she recoils, and thinking only of her happiness he crashes his violin over his knee, thereby putting himself out of the contest and making Sandro the winner. He then places the chain about Sandro's neck, and handing the girl over to him he rushes from the hall. We finally leave him alone in his room, crushed and dejected, yet contented in the thought that he had made her happy.
- Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops. The days at Monteith Manor are lonely for Clairette, and her cousin. Captain DePerrin, formerly of the French Army, comes to act as her protector. He falls madly in love with Clairette, but his attentions annoy her and she tries to evade him. Ezra Mason, now a Colonel in the command of Union forces, and Major Stillman are granted a short leave of absence. They are ambushed by a Confederate near Monteith Manor. Major Stillman is wounded and is assisted to Montieth Manor by Mason. Nelse, the Monteith slave servant, sees the "Yanks" (Mason and Stillman) coming towards the house. He calls Clairette, who shows resentment at their appearance, but when she discovers Maior Stillman is wounded she softens. Major Stillman is made comfortable and Aunt Margie is put in charge as nurse. A few days later. Mason received a message telling him Clairette's father has died. Clairette is paralyzed with grief, and Mason, now very much in love with her, tries to console her. DePerrin is jealous of Mason's attentions to Clairette and schemes to get him out of the way. Major Stillman recovers and proposes to Aunt Margie. She surrenders and leaves for Washington with the Major, who has been promoted to Colonel, taking Joan with them. Colonel Mason prolongs his stay at Monteith Manor. DePerrin is persistent with his attentions to Clairette and is passionately declaring his love for her when Mason enters, Clairette goes to Mason for protection and he then tells her of his love. Major Watkins, in command of the U.S. Telegraph Corps, while passing the manor, reports to Mason that all is quiet and Mason looks forward to a few more pleasant days with Clairette. Bill Bronson, now a straggler from the Confederate ranks, is caught by DePerrin taking food from the window. DePerrin questions Bronson and learns that Major Steve Monteith is in command of his troops. DePerrin is struck with an idea to get even with Mason and sends Bronson back to Steve with an anonymous note telling him that a Union officer is making the Manor his headquarters, much to the annoyance of his sister. Major Watkins and the Telegraph Corps reach their supply house and are startled by the Confederate troops who open fire. Watkins, though badly wounded, rushes off for aid. The Union forces are attacked by the Confederates while crossing a bridge and are thrown into a panic. The bridge is blown up by the enemy but the Union troops repel the attack and drive the enemy back. At the same time the supply house of the Telegraph Corps is burned by the Confederates. Major Watkins reaches Monteith Manor and reports to Colonel Mason, who orders him to telegraph the information to headquarters and save the army. Watkins, bleeding and badly wounded, climbs the telegraph pole near the Monteith home and is about to send Mason's message when the Confederate troops in charge of Steve open fire and kill him, DePerrin gives the troopers orders to shoot Mason. Bronson recognizes Mason as a friend who did him a service before the war and is very angry at DePerrin. The Confederate troops are about to kill Mason when Steve orders them to fall back. He is astonished to find Mason, and forgetting his position, clasps Mason's hand. Mason surrenders and is placed in Libby Prison. DePerrin, officer of the day at the prison, has Mason placed in quarters known as "Rat Hell." Bronson on guard, acts as guard for Mason in aiding his escape. Mason starts to dig a tunnel but is interrupted by DePerrin making his rounds. Clairette arrives in Richmond to effect Mason's exchange. The Commander at the Confederate Headquarters sends DePerrin a message asking for a report on Mason. DePerrin tells Mason if he will swear never to see Miss Monteith again he will secure his release. Mason, enraged, tells DePerrin he disgraces the uniform he wears and rejects the proposition. Clairette is informed of DePerrin's action and is about to give way in utter despair when she is struck with an idea. Bronson secures a Confederate outfit for Clairette and instructs her in the duties of prison guard. Clairette meets Bronson at the prison and takes his place. He gives her his gun and countersign "Virginia." DePerrin, making his rounds tells "Bronson" (Clairette) to shoot any Union officer on sight who attempts to escape. Clairette salutes, and is about to collapse from fright, when the earth near her breaks and she sees Mason coming through. He is about to strike when he recognizes Clairette. They exchange coats, she gives him the signal to pass the sentry and the countersign "Virginia." Clairette, now thoroughly frightened, sees DePerrin and guards coming. She tries to hide Mason, and DePerrin at sight of a Union officer fires. Clairette stumbles and falls at his feet. DePerrin recognizes Clairette, and, thinking he has killed her, commits suicide. The surgeon at the Confederate headquarters orders Clairette removed to her home. The war is over and Major Stillman and Aunt Margie return to Monteith Manor. Steve is astonished at the wonderful development of Joan and falls in love with her. He proposes and is accepted. They are sealing their engagement when Mason enters and interrupts them. Major Stillman and Steve greet Mason heartily and tell him he is all the medicine Clairette needs, and they plan to surprise her. Aunt Margie tells Clairette the Major has the medicine for her in the conservatory. Mason comes out from his hiding place and proves to be the tonic Clairette needed most.
- A young, and fickle girl ( Mary Pickford ) dumps her admiring boyfriend ( Edwin August ) because she views him as a coward. Meanwhile a ruthless convict ( Alfred Paget ) has escaped and takes the girl as his hostage. After a harrowing automobile and train chase, the ex-boyfriend rescues the girl and he immediately becomes her hero, which she seals with a kiss.
- In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
- Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
- Ramona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.
- A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him.
- The most satisfying and pleasurable sensation experienced is "getting even," especially where one has been held up to ridicule before a jeering mob. Such was the reguerdon of Bud, the Kid of the Mining Camp, after suffering gross humiliation at the hands of the other cowboys and miners. Miss Lucy, the belle of the camp, is introduced to the Kid, and makes an impression; the Kid becomes quite seriously inclined towards her. The boys, more in the spirit of jest than chagrin, poke fun at him; call him the baby, and end with Jim Blake spanking him. Needless to say the Kid is mortified and swears to get square. A masque ball is to be held that night, so Bud plans his revenge. All tog out in grotesque costumes, a high old time is imminent, for it is fair to assume that the society folk of the camp will be well represented. Bud, however, feigns a toothache and will not go. Dressed up in carnival duds, the gang leaves the shack for the pavilion. All gone. Bud jumps from his bunk, and dresses up in swell female attire, the effect being marvelous. He presents such a striking appearance that he is the belle of the ball. Jim Blake becomes deeply smitten, and after leading him on Bud soon has Jim on his knees, pouring out his soul's devotion, regardless of the snickerings of the motley mob around them. There Jim kneels, declaring his undying love for the fair charmer, as only a lion-hearted cowboy can, when Bud removes his hat and wig. "Holy "Smoke!" Well it is safe to say that Mr. James Blake will not attend any more spanking bees where the Kid is a victim.
- A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.
- Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother, while Adele travels on the road with a theatrical company. Adele returns from the road at the end of her season, and is not home long before she realizes that her place is with her mother and sisters. She finds that they neglect their poor old mother, running off to dancing parties every night, and what is worse, associating with a class of habitués no way conducive to their moral health. Adele, who is older and more experienced, decides to stay and watch over them. To better effect her plan she hires a hall and opens a dancing academy, thereby affording her sisters a chance to enjoy their favorite pastime under her eye. She is grieved to see that Mary is receiving the attentions of one of the most worthless scoundrels that frequents the place. The only reason for his presence at the academy is to lure innocent girls to their destruction. A sociable is given at the academy and during its progress the Investigating Committee visits it. A young curate is one of the party and he forms quite an attachment for Mary, and appreciating the danger of her present surroundings, resolves to save her from the impending danger, for his interest has ripened into love. However, despite all of Adele's urging Mary will have nothing to do with the minister. Her ideal is the young good-for-nothing, who seeing Adele's anxiety to separate them, becomes more urgent and suggests Mary's going away with him. Mary, of course, consents, for he has only to suggest and she yields. Adele, upon her return from the dancing academy, is amazed to find Mary preparing to leave with the contemptible cur. By subterfuge Adele gets Mary into her room and locks the door. She is determined to save her sister at any cost, but how? An idea. She lures the fellow to make love to her and at the proper time the other sister releases Mary to see what an unconscionable dog her choice is. He has in a moment transferred his attentions to Adele. The scheme works and Adele then shows the disgruntled scapegrace the door. The minister arrives and after a deal of soft persuasion wins Mary over.
- Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
- Orphaned Jack Denham is adopted by his aunt Mary Watkins, a wealthy spinster who is known to everybody as "'Aunt Mary." Aunt Mary's sweetheart receives an offer of a position in the city, which he gladly accepts, as he has grown tired of Aunt Mary and seizes this opportunity to desert her. A number of years elapses and he never returns. When Jack reaches his majority Aunt Mary sends him to college, and she is left alone with her two servants, Lucinda and Joshua. At college Jack has three chums, Burnett, Mitchell, and Clover. Jack is expelled from college for breaking the rules. Aunt Mary writes her lawyer, Mr. Stebbins, to look after Jack. Jack is despondent and goes to a cabaret show, where he meets "the girl from Kalamazoo." While under the influence of liquor he proposes marriage and gives her a ring he is wearing. Jack returns to his hotel and does not miss the ring till the next morning, when the girl from Kalamazoo telephones him and he realizes what a fine scrape he is in. Jack's chums try to cheer him up and they all go to a saloon and have several drinks. Mitchell has a small pistol which he is showing to the boys, and Jack examines it. He shoots at a dog and accidentally hits the bartender. Jack is threatened with arrest. He telephones Stebbins, who pays damages of $100, and Jack is allowed to go. Stebbins induces Jack to return to Aunt Mary and tell her the story himself. Aunt Mary greets Jack affectionately and tells him she will forgive everything as long as he never wrongs a woman. Stebbins arrives with the news of a breach of promise suit against Jack, brought by the girl from Kalamazoo. This angers Aunt Mary and she disinherits Jack. The girl from Kalamazoo learns that Jack has been disinherited. She goes to see Aunt Mary and tells her that she really loves Jack and does not want his money. Bob Burnett now comes to Jack's rescue and insists that Jack stop with him at his home for a while. While at Burnett's Jack falls in love with Betty, Bob's sister. Mitchell plans to gain Aunt Mary's sympathy and telegraphs her that Jack has a bad attack of measles. Aunt Mary decides to go to her nephew at once. The boys are in the midst of a surprise party, given in honor of Betty's birthday, when Mitchell receives a telegram from Aunt Mary stating she is on her way. This throws Jack and the boys into a panic as Aunt Mary is due to arrive. Betty saves the situation by declaring that she will say the telegram was a trick to bring Aunt Mary to a party in her honor, and she will help the deception along by posing as the housemaid, Janice. Aunt Mary arrives and her rejuvenation begins. Betty dresses her hair in the latest Parisian style, and lends her one of her evening gowns. Aunt Mary, who has been led to believe that the party is in her honor, enters into the spirit of the occasion and has a glorious time. The boys order an automobile and take her for a trip around San Francisco. Aunt Mary is delighted with the trip. They go to a cabaret and the boys induce Aunt Mary to dance. Betty at home finds a newspaper in which is an article stating that Jack is being sued by the girl from Kalamazoo for breach of promise, and this puts him in bad with Betty. The girl from Kalamazoo notifies Aunt Marv that she is very ill. Aunt Mary and Betty go to see her, and Aunt Mary gives the girl enough money to take her home as soon as she is able to travel. Aunt Mary, having had enough of gay life, decides to return home. She reaches her home, and being dissatisfied with Lucinda as a maid, sends for Betty. Betty is very much amused when she receives the letter, and decides to go to Aunt Mary's for a while. The girl from Kalamazoo recovers and makes arrangements to return to her home. She is deeply grateful to Aunt Mary for her kindness and stops off to say good-bye to her. She meets Betty and confesses that she had no claim on Jack. Jack goes to Aunt Mary's to make a last appeal to Betty. Aunt Mary learns that Betty is Bob's sister. Betty and Jack ask Aunt Mary for her consent to their marriage, which she cheerfully gives, and they all look forward to a very happy future.
- A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
- Mrs. Wilson secures seats for the theater as does also her daughter Pearl, each expecting their respective hubbies to accompany them thereto. The men, however, have other fish to fry, both having a weakness, each unknown to the other, for the green baize covered table, a quiet game of draw, so when they learn of the plan of their wives they at once scheme to avoid what would now be an ordeal. The subterfuge is illness. Mr. Wilson pretends to suffer rheumatism of the foot, while son-in-law has a violent headache. Of course, neither of the men know why the other is so anxious to avoid going to the theater with the ladies. Steeped with abject sympathy, they consent to go unescorted. Now the men are up against another problem, that is, how to avoid each other. Wilson is the first to make the getaway and makes hurried tracks for the club room where he is deeply engrossed in the game when son-in-law arrives. Consternation besets both at this meeting and when Wilson exclaims, "what are you doing here?" Son-in-law answers, "I came after you." Well, the truth of the situation prevails, and they make the best of it by becoming partners in the little indiscretion, both taking hands. They have hardly started in when there is a cry of alarm occasioned by the butting-in of the police and the majority of the players are "pinched." Wilson and his son-in-law elude the cops by getting out on the fire-escape, not, however, without losing their coats and hats which they left in their hurried decamping. Coming back to the room they find the entrance still guarded, so a disguise is their only hope, as they must resort to desperate means. Climbing up the fire-escape, the son-in-law enters a room above and pilfers a small boy's suit which when donned makes him look like a ten-year-old. Father manages to get a policeman's coat, belt and hat from a flat kitchen where Biddy is entertaining her "copper" sweetheart. This way they manage to get by the guards, but their trouble has only just begun for the father is taken for a real cop and placed to guard a street corner and the son-in-law, mistaken for a "mamma's pet," is set upon by a gang of hoodlums. However, they manage to get home just ahead of their wives who are excessing in their sympathy for the poor sick men who had to remain at home and suffer from their illness, while they enjoyed an evening at the theater. You may imagine that the episode proved a lasting lesson.