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- Dick Halstead, a jewelry salesman, is sent to deliver a necklace worth $6,200 to a Mrs. Collingwood, a neighbor of his friends, the Barrys. Tom Barry and his young wife invite Dick to spend a night at their house. As he had to deliver the necklace to his wealthy patron the following day, he accepts. He shows the necklace to Tom and Pearl and they are fascinated by its beauty. They lock it in their safe, the combination of which is known only to Tom and his wife. They retire. Mrs. Barry, addicted to the sleep walking habit, although this was unknown to her husband, gets up in the middle of the night, opens the safe, takes out the jewels, and re-locks the safe. She then wanders around the house and finally goes out into the garden, where she hides the necklace in the hollow trunk of an old tree. She returns to bed. The next morning they come down to breakfast and Dick, being ready to leave, they all go upstairs and Tom opens the safe. To their consternation they find the jewels gone. Dick, nearly frantic with despair, does not know what to do, and Tom and his wife are at a loss to know how to account for the mysterious disappearance, inasmuch as they were the only two who knew the combination to the safe. The strange part of it all was that no other article of value in the safe had been touched. Tom insists that he is responsible to Dick for the loss, as it happened in his house, and immediately mortgages his home to make good Dick's loss, and thus saving his position. Mrs. Barry is nearly heartbroken, and when the detectives gave up all hope of ever finding the thief her sorrows were enhanced. A year passed and during that interval almost every night Mrs. Barry, working under the influences of the subconscious mind, was wont to arise and go to the hiding-place of the jewels and try them on. The mortgage on the home is due and is about to be fore-closed for non-payment, when one night Pearl being ill, Tom goes out to get some medicine for her. She falls asleep and as usual goes out and gets the necklace. When he returns she is holding it in her hand, though it can be seen that she is fast asleep. He cries out in his astonishment and accuses her of being a thief, but only succeeds in awaking her, and then realizing that she had done all this in her sleep, he takes her in his arms and readily forgives her failing, as her finding the necklace enabled them to place Dick absolutely right with his firm, and their money being returned to them, the mortgage was not foreclosed and their home saved.
- Each of three room-mates proposes to the same woman.
- Pearl White and Chester Barnett start out simultaneously on a visit to their mutual friends, the Mortons. Pearl and Chester have never met. Pearl's auto breaks down and she is forced to walk through the woods. Meanwhile, two lunatics, a man and a woman escape from the asylum and are roaming around the woods. Their beepers are on a lookout for them. The lunatics quarrel and separate. The man meets Pearl and frightens her. She runs and he runs after her. The woman lunatic is sitting on a rock when Chester approaches. He tries to control the wretched woman, when she hits at him with a club and chases him away. The keepers come upon the man and bring him back to the asylum while the other one goes hunting for the woman. Pearl and Chester run into each other, after having met the keeper who had informed each of them to be on the lookout for a lunatic. They mistake each other as insane and nm. Pearl reaches the home of the Mortons and upon entering the parlor finds Chester wailing in a chair for his guests, who impatient at their not appearing had gone to the station to find out what kept them. Pearl gets a knife and chases Chester out of the house. There he is met by the wild woman who also chases him. They run into the arms of the keeper and Chester tells him there is another lunatic in the house, meaning Pearl. They enter and the Mortons who have returned, introduce Pearl and Chester and all is well, while the keeper drags the unhappy loon back to her padded cell.
- Major Morgan makes an impassioned speech denouncing Colonel Allison, who is seeking the nomination for Governor of the State of Georgia. His son, Dick, saves the life of Georgia, the only daughter of Colonel Allison, he stopping her runaway horse. The colonel goes to the major's home and seeks to quarrel with him, but serious trouble is prevented by the major's wife. He returns home and is introduced to Dick by Georgia. He thanks the young man for saving his daughter's life, but orders him from the house, saying that in view of his strained relations with the major, that he could be friends with none of his family. The young couple, however, have fallen in love, and think it wrong that they should suffer for the personal quarrels of their parents. Unknown to her father Georgia attends a party where she knows she will meet Dick. Her father follows her there and takes her home. The following week a grand dance and affair is given by a matron of the country and the young couple are invited. Georgia's father finds out that she intends to meet Dick there and prevents her going. Dick attends and Georgia tells him over the telephone that her father has learned that they are not to be kept apart and intends taking her to California so as to be away from him. Dick immediately hastens to Georgia's home where he is let in by her. Jackson, the old butler, sees him passing a window on the porch and thinking him a burglar, tells Colonel Allison. The colonel hastens upstairs and discovers the young couple in each other's arms. He immediately sends Georgia from the room and handing Dick a pistol insists on fighting him a duel, claiming that his family's good name has been besmirched and a scandal raised by Dick's midnight visit to his daughter's boudoir. Dick refuses to shoot and Georgia re-enters the room. Her father insists that to avoid a scandal the young couple must be married immediately, and they give an only too ready assent. The colonel telephones for a minister and, unknown to either, Georgia goes out and telephones to Dick's father to come over to the house. He arrives just as the ceremony is finished and is induced to shake hands with the colonel and forget their feud.
- Pearl and Archibald are sweethearts. They call on Mr. and Mrs. Sneed, friends of Archie's. Archie is attentive to Mrs. Sneed and Pearl to make him jealous is attentive to Mr. Sneed. Archie and Pearl quarrel. Archie has Sneed intercede in his behalf, but to no avail. Meanwhile Pearl, lonesome and wishing to make up with Archie, writes him a note that she cannot live without him and asking him to call. Sneed calls again, trying to patch up the quarrel. He asks to borrow the book, when Pearl decides again not to give in to Archie, and forgets all about the letter which she put in the hook when Sneed called. Mrs. Sneed finds the letter and determines to investigate. Archie decides to call on Pearl and win her graces. Pearl calls up Sneed and asks him to call, making up her mind at last to let him bring her and Archie together again. Mrs. Sneed follows Sneed to her house and entering after her husband denounces them both. Just as the situation is getting strained, Archie enters and Pearl explains that the note was meant for him and after all make up, they decide that quarreling is useless and determine to all remain friends.
- Alice Brady writes her brother Will that she is going to visit him. The letter is lost. Will writes his friend Jack Wilson to come over. Alice arrives while Will is away from the house and goes to her room to sleep. Jack, who has looked upon the wine when it was much too red, comes to the house and tries to get into Alice's room. She chases him out and Will comes home to find his friend shivering in the hallway. Jack explains that some woman threw him out of the room. Not knowing of Alice's presence, Will is very much wrought up. He knocks on the door of her room. Alice, thinking the inebriate, Jack, has returned, opens the door and throws a pitcher of water all over Will. Confusion reigns, until matters are straightened out by proper introductions and regrets.
- Death message of intended suicide, made into doll's dress by little girl, exonerates murder suspect.
- Mr. Roland is supposedly wealthy. Edith and Walter Douglas are engaged to be married. Mr. Roland dies, and upon investigation, it is found that his estate is insolvent and that his home will have to be sold, leaving Edith penniless. Walter, upon learning of this condition of affairs, breaks the engagement. Edith is forced to seek work. She goes to another city. Frank Barlow sees his girl, Ruth, with another fellow and throws her over. He grieves over it and loses his job. He cannot get another and is despondent. Edith is discharged from the position she obtained as incompetent. Edith and Frank room in the same lodging house, but have never met. Each is about ready to give up the struggle for life and Edith goes to the river to drown herself. Frank sees her and rescues her. She is revived and he takes her home. They tell each other their stories and they determine to fight it out. Frank succeeds in getting work, and having fallen in love with Edith, and she with him, they decide to fight it out together.
- Pearl, the girl detective, is at home chafing with inactivity and the want of something to do. She decides to go out for a walk in the hope that something in the way of an adventure may come her way. Fred Hanley, a young man, has become a confirmed drunkard. A friend of his brings a doctor to visit Hanley. Hanley becomes excited during their visit and frightens them nearly unto death by shooting at them with a revolver. They leave in haste, but decide to lock Hanley in his room. This they do, leaving a servant to watch the door. Hanley, crazed for want of drink, writes a note that he is wrongfully imprisoned, and offers $5,000 reward for anyone who liberates him. This he throws out the window, just as Pearl is passing the house. She picks it up, reads it and realizes that her quest for an adventure has borne fruit. She immediately goes home and disguises as a boy. Coming back, she applies for a job and the woman downstairs employs her and puts the supposed boy to work. Pearl has a hard time of it, peeling potatoes and scrubbing floors, but with never a chance to liberate the unfortunate, supposed prisoner. Later, however, she is caught upstairs listening at the door by the servant, and is kicked downstairs. The woman pulls her ears for leaving the kitchen, and all in all, Pearl is treated exactly how a real detective should not be. However, at last, Pearl succeeds in gaining access to the room and is fondly dreaming of the five thousand dollar reward and her noble work and bravery, when Hanley's friends enter and explain. Pearl appreciates that she has been stung and beats a hasty retreat, resolving to detect in a more profitable way in the hereafter.
- Bashful visits the White household. He is madly in love with the elder of the two sisters. However he cannot sum up courage enough to propose to her. The younger sister, Pearl, is also in love with Bashful, but thinks her chances too slim for consideration. She feels in duty bound to her elder sister to refrain from letting her love be known. Various humorous situations develop, but still Bashful is unable to gather enough nerve to ask the fair damsel to be his bride. He picks up a book and reads a chapter of a man, who, like him, was too bashful to propose and does so by telephone. Struck with the idea, he pursues that course. Strangely the younger sister answers the phone and when he proposes, she accepts. He calls and is thunderstruck when she greets him with a kiss. He is too confused to refute her imputations and has to be content with the younger girl.
- Grimshaw, a wealthy man, is cruel by nature. He refuses to allow his girl to see or receive attentions from Harry, a young man of sterling character, but poor. Grimshaw instructs his agent to secure the rent from his tenants on the first of the month and when some of them visit him to beg leeway, he refuses. They leave, cursing him. He goes up to his daughter's room and finds her in tears. Later, he returns downstairs and falls asleep musing. He dreams that he is dead. He sees himself in his coffin. He dreams that his daughter dies and she, in spirit, takes him to her sweetheart and shows him the cold body of the boy that died by his own hand through grief. She takes her father to his tenements and there amid the squalid surroundings he sees the struggle for existence. He then sees himself in his coffin and all the people he has abused point their fingers at him. He awakens with a start, glad to find that it was only a dream. However, the dream has made such an impression on him that he turns over a new leaf; he permits his daughter to marry the man she loves and allows the tenants plenty of time to pay their rent.
- Vivian is a cook for Charlie and his wife. She, however, refuses to work until she is ready and also insists on mixing with the family. Charlie goes down to argue with her and she chases him from the room with a knife; she does the same thing with his wife. They are forced to eat a box of candy to keep from starving. Later Charlie goes down and bribes the cook. She feeds him. His wife comes down and demands an explanation. Vivian asserts that unless she eats upstairs with the family she will quit, and in order to save themselves from starving they give her her way.
- Realizing that a bill has been outstanding considerable length of time, Maguinness decides to collect it. One of the office assistants is the first sent to the office of the debtor. Mr. Skinner is out. The boss then sends his stenographer to collect. She is successful in getting a promissory note which is payable in ninety years. McGuinness, after reading the note, tears it up. Next Bill is sent, and arriving at the office finds that Mr. Skinner is again out. Finally the boss's daughter takes a hand in the matter. She received a check from Skinner which is returned from the bank marked "No Good." McGuinness, raging, goes to Skinner's office, and shows the check. Detectives arrest Skinner as McGuinness, covered with lime, enters the office.
- Mrs. Gladding, madly in love with her husband, is furious when she finds a note to him from one, Iola, asking him to call on her. However, Iola simply desires Gladding to bridge over a quarrel between herself and her sweetheart. When Gladding leaves the house his wife follows dressed as a man. Serious complications arise in the street when hubby tries to shake her off. She is arrested by a detective for impersonating a detective. She had said that she was one in order to escape him. She breaks loose and runs home with both the detective and her husband after her. She rushes to her room and manages to change clothes and hide the discarded before the detective arrives. She explains that she has been asleep and was awakened by a man running through the room and out the window. To hubby, later, she explains her motives. He takes her to his friend's house and when she learns the truth she repents for being suspicious.
- Mr. Stout, fat, is lazy. He refuses to exert himself. Mrs. Stout, thin, directly opposite, and cannot understand his lazy proclivities. Their servant girl, Lizzie, is also lazy. Mrs. Stout procures a bottle of medicine which is called "Vitalo," supposed to make people active. Lizzie is entertaining her beau, the cop. and refuses to move. Mrs. Stout pours some of the "Vitalo" into her milk. Lizzie and the cop drink and immediately become victims of speed. They dance about in whirlwind fashion, until the cop becomes exhausted and leaves. Mrs. Stout, seeing the effect, decides to try it on her husband. She puts a dose in his coffee, and immediately the lazy man becomes a whirlwind of activity. He invites his wife to go for an auto ride. This they do, and in the middle of the road the auto breaks down. Stout, full of the strange "Vitalo." gets out and pull the auto all the way home. Coming into the house, he joins Lizzie in generally scattering things about, much to Mrs. Stout's discomfiture. Mrs. Stout, after viewing the wreckage, decides that she would rather have her husband lazy.
- Lizzie, a pretty servant girl, secures a job in the boarding house. There she is admired by the boarders. M. Schmaltz, the proprietor, helps her saw the wood, while his son carries up the coal. The other boarders do whatever they can to assist her. Her heart, however, has been won by Tim, the iceman. When Tim calls and sees the son making love to her he beats him up. The boarders fight among themselves and with their wives when their efforts at love-making to the pretty maid are discovered. Lizzie comes into the parlor and helps the cause along by applying a rolling pin thoroughly to their heads. When the house has been considerably wrecked. Lizzie, who has been hired to "clean up," returns to her duties in the kitchen. Tim enters and is accepted. They go upstairs, hand the sick boarders the laugh and exit.
- Mabel goes on a hunger strike until her father gives his consent to her marriage to George.
- Pearl White, reporter, is ordered by her newspaper to get an interview with the mayor, Frank Brockly. She visits his house just as the mayor leaves it in an automobile. A valise belonging to the mayor drops off and Pearl finds it. She enters the house believing the mayor will return for it. The butler admits her and bids her wait. She enters the parlor. Meanwhile, "Natty" Nixon, a sneak thief, finds the door open and enters the house. Pearl mistakes him for the mayor. He plays the part. Later, he locks her in the room and tries to escape, taking the valise Pearl found with him. The butler sees him and chases him down the street, finally capturing him. Meanwhile the mayor returns and discovers Pearl. He thinks she is a thief and she thinks the same of him. He cows her with a revolver and is about to phone the police when by a trick she wrests a revolver from him. She phones the police and two policemen are sent to the mayor's mansion on the double-quick. They enter just as the butler returns with "Natty" and eventually all entanglements being straightened out. Pearl gets the interview and all ends well.
- Pearl lives on the same floor as Dick. Dick owns a small puppy, who is always running into Pearl's flat and stealing small articles. Pearl one day notices the puppy and follows him into Dick's apartment. They have an argument. That night Dick gets into an argument with Little Willie and spanks him. The youngster goes upstairs and takes from the door of the flat above a sign, warning people that the inmates have smallpox. Willie takes the sign and nails it on Dick's door. The puppy again enters Pearl's flat and steals one of her shoes. She follows it into Dick's room. A health officer arrives and when Pearl tries to leave, he compels her to re-enter. The two are quarantined. Pearl gets as far away from Dick as possible, thinking him afflicted with the disease. Two surgeons arrive. When Willie informs them that the case is upstairs Dick and Pearl are released from quarantine.
- A maid and butler take advantage of their employers' absence and have a party.
- Mary is a country girl, and lives on a farm with her parents. However, she is very romantic and her head is full of ideals, gained by reading numerous romantic books. John the farm hand has induced Mary to promise to marry him. Mary is out reading one day, when Donald Belmar, on a hunting trip from the city, comes across her. He flirts with her and she sees in him her ideal of the books. She listens to his flatteries and is very much smitten with him. Arthur, a small boy, sees the flirtation and informs John. John arrives on the scene just as Belmar is kissing Marv. John assaults Belmar, nearly chokes him to death. Belmar goes away and John takes Mary home, Mary refusing to speak to him. The next day Mary received a letter from Belmar telling her how happy he was while with her and inviting her to come to the city to visit him. This she decides to do, and in the night leaves home. She arrives in the city and the next day goes to Belmar's home. To her surprise, she discovers that Belmar is married, and that she has been deceived. She returns home, but her father orders her from the house. There being nothing left to do but commit suicide, she journeys to the river and decides to end her life. John calls at her home and Mary's mother informs him of Mary's return and of how she was treated by her father. John runs to the river and is just in time to save Mary from a watery grave. Mary realizes the true depth of John's love and they make up their quarrel. They go to the minister and are married, Mary vowing to always look upon John as her only ideal. They return home and upon explanation are reconciled to her mother and father.
- Smith, unable to meet his obligations to Brown, decides to commit suicide rather than face bankruptcy proceedings. Vera, Smith's daughter, finds a note from Brown beside the dead men and resolves on revenge. Later she secures a position as seamstress in the home of Ethel Wilson, fiancée of Allen Brown, only son of Vera's enemy, a fact of which Vera is ignorant at the time. Later she wins the love of Allan and marries him, hoping to strike the father through the son. Brown disowns his son for marrying a girl beneath his station, unaware at the time that Vera is the daughter of the man he drove to suicide. Vera writes him a letter informing him of the fact and then leaves Allan. The boy is too proud to seek reconciliation with his father. Time passes. Both Vera and the father read in the paper where Allan has been injured trying to stop a runaway. Struck with his heroism, the spark of love is kindled in Vera's breast and she goes to the hospital. Here she comes face to face with the father. He demands that his son choose between them. Allan taken the girl and then the father gives up. Reconciliation and forgiveness is had.
- Pearl is admired by Chester, whom she likes, and by Bill and Angelo, both of whom she tolerates. The rivals fight among themselves whenever they meet, but make little headway with Pearl. Bill meets Pearl's father and gives him a cigar. The old gent tells Bill that Pearl is expecting him at the house. Angelo also meets the old gent and treating him well is told the same thing as Bill. Bill arrives at Pearl's house and is only there a few minutes when Angelo arrives. Meanwhile Chester has met Pearl's father, and giving him a box of cigars is told that Pearl is waiting at the house for him. He also arrives at Pearl's house and the other two admirers jealous of Pearl's attentions to him, leave. Pearl then decides to have some fun with Bill and Angelo. She writes the both of them a letter asking them to meet her at the same time. Angelo loses his letter. He arrives at the appointed place only to find Bill there. Surprised, he asks Bill what he is doing there, and Bill shows him his letter. Angelo accuses him of stealing his, and a fight results. Pearl and Chester who were there to see the fun, run for a policeman, and the two rivals are dragged off to jail, leaving Chester in full possession of Pearl.
- Reuben and Annie are sweethearts. Annie's Pa does not look upon Reuben with favor. Reuben and Annie are walking along the road. Si, who is also stuck on Annie, runs home and tells Annie's Pa, He comes out looking for them, determined upon giving Reuben a beating. Meanwhile Claude, the traveling salesman, passes them and flirts with Annie. She becomes stuck on him and dismisses Reuben. Pa sees them and mistaking Claude for Reuben, beats him up, before he discovers his mistake. Claude is invited into the house. Si and Reuben call, but Annie's attentions are all for Claude. Pa re-enters and gets rid of the two rubes. Pa insists upon Claude marrying Annie. Claude refuses. Pa holds him up at the point of a gun. He gets Si to hold the gun while he gets a minister. Claude overcomes Si and escapes. Pa returns with the minister, and is astounded that Annie's beautiful prospects of marriage to a city chap are gone. Annie resolves that she loves Reuben anyway.
- The clerk and the stenographer are in love. The boss, who is married, never suspects it. The stenographer goes out to lunch and loses her pocketbook. She returns to the office crying. The boss comforts her and makes good the amount she lost. She continues to cry and the boss kindly pats her on the back. The clerk sees this and imagining that he is about to lose his girl, becomes insanely jealous. He writes a letter to the boss' wife, telling her to watch him and the typist. That afternoon the typist and the clerk make up and the clerk takes her in his arms and kisses her. At this moment the boss enters and kicks the clerk out. The typist attacks the boss and she also is discharged. The boss then phones an employment agency for the homeliest typist they have, hoping thus to do away with all lovemakmg in his office. They send a very, very, homely woman and she is installed as typist. Meanwhile the boss' wife determines to find out about her husband's doings with the typist, and getting a revolver, goes to the office, after first having written the typist that she would kill her. The old typist returns for her bag and the new typist chases her out. She tells the clerk and he goes back. Meanwhile the boss' wife has arrived, and upon seeing the typist, realizes that her suspicions have been false, as her husband could never leave her for one so homely. The clerk arrives and is chased out. The typist, scared by the revolver, also runs out and seeks a policeman. However, hubby returns and embracing his wife, she tears up the note that aroused her jealousy.
- When she returns home with her poor husband, William, her rich father disowns her. Several years later William finds himself alone except for a baby girl, his wife having died. Meanwhile the father, Dumont, has softened somewhat, and writes William, asking to take care of the child. He stipulates, however, that William must never come to visit her. William consents after careful thought, believing the old man can give her the education and comfort that he would be unable to. Time passes and the girl, now grown, becomes a fixture of the old man's household. She becomes attached to a young man, who asks to marry her. Meanwhile William has become lonesome for a sight of his child and decides to risk all visiting her. He arrives when the girl is in conversation with her lover. The butler sees William and mistakes him for a burglar. Dumont rushes out and accuses him. The girl observes and believing that her father needs her more than anyone, breaks her engagement. Her sweetheart, however, follows her, telling her that he would marry her despite her poverty, and all ends happily.
- Pearl and Charlotte room together. Chester, who is Pearl's beau, and Joe, who is Charlotte's fellow, also room together. Chester borrows Joe's coat and visits Pearl. Pearl receives him in Charlotte's new dress. He invites her to go to a ball. Returning home, Joe takes his suit away from him. The next day he calls on Charlotte. He puts his hand in his coat pocket and finds the ticket Chester had bought for the ball. He invites Charlotte to go with him. The night of the ball, both girls are expecting their friends, but neither tells the other where they are going. The same with the boys. Charlotte lays out her new dress and Pearl, desirous of wearing it, pretends that she has a toothache, and induces Charlotte to run out to the drug store and get her some toothache drops. As soon as she has gone, Pearl dons the dress. Joe has hired a dress suit for the occasion, and goes out to get his shoes shined. Chester discovers the suit, puts it on and leaves before Joe returns. Charlotte returns. She discovers that the dress is missing. Joe returns and discovers the loss of his dress suit. He rushes to Charlotte's house, determining to go in a sack suit, and is surprised to find the two girls fighting and Chester trying to separate them. He engages Chester in battle and the landlady runs out for a policeman. One returns and the two boys are arrested. The girls go to bed and engage in a pillow fight. One of the pillows rips open and the place is strewn with feathers. The girls see the ludicrous side of the affair and make up while Chester and Joe are in a police cell, scheming how they can get out and vowing never to scrap again.
- A woman's advice to her lovelorn maid ends up with a speedy proposal of marriage for herself.
- Chester is kidnapped by a jealous rival. Pearl is engaged to find him. A box is bought in which Chester is to be put and shipped back to his lady love. Pearl releases Chester and hides in the box, hoping to capture the criminals. The box is thrown onto a wagon and proceeds on its way. After falling off and badly marring Pearl's neat appearance and stunning beauty, the box is delivered at its destination, where Pearl is released. She is rewarded with a ten-dollar bill by Chester for saving his life, and she determines to give up detecting and engage in something more satisfying.
- Sal, the kitchen mechanic, has a beau in the policeman on the beat and he visits her in the kitchen. Her mistress, an old maid with money, is receiving a visit from Hiram, a crusty bachelor at the time. She has occasion to go to the kitchen and there meets Sal's fellow. She falls a victim to his charms and he makes love to her. Sal enters and chases the pair out of the room. The next evening when Hiram comes to visit the old maid Sal determines to turn the tables on her mistress and win him. Hiram falls for her and they are having a delightful time when the old maid enters. There is an awful fuss; the old maid runs to the street and returns with the policeman. He, remembering his old love, refuses to arrest her and begs her to return. They leave together while the old maid attempts to explain with difficulty to Hiram.
- Pearl White and Chester Barnett have never met, though their fathers are great friends. Chester's father gives Chester a letter of introduction to Pearl's father, hoping to bring about a union between the couple. Chester's overcoat, with the letter, is stolen by the "Lifter." The Lifter decides to make use of the letter and visits Pearl and her father. He introduces himself as Chester, and Pearl, seeing him before he sees her, determines to absolutely refuse to meet him, she not liking his looks. Her father insists on her meeting him, so Pearl disguises as an old maid. The "Lifter" is looking for an escape, when Chester arrives and claims his coat and his name. The "Lifter" jumps out a window into the hands of a policeman while Chester and Pearl are glad that they at last know each other. Pearl having assumed her regular attire.
- Pearl has an awful temper. So has her hubby. Hubby invites some friends to the house. They play poker, leaving Pearl to her own amusements. At 12:30 they are still at it, and Pearl in an outburst breaks up the game, just when Hubby is about to regain his losses. Hubby thinks to frighten Pearl out of her temper by writing that he will shoot himself. Pearl also writes a suicidal note, saying she will drown herself in the bathtub. Hubby goes out but returns only "half shot." Meanwhile the cook has taken a bath and Pearl is unable to carry out her threat. Hubby finds Pearl's note and rushes to the bath room, expecting to find Pearl's dead body. He opens the door very hurriedly and throws the cook into the tub, giving her another bath. The cook throws Hubby into the tub, clothes and all. Pearl enters at this moment and they explain that their suicide notes were mere jests to cure each other's tempers.
- Pearl has two admirers, Chester and Joe. Joe is out walking when a boy hands him a card of Madam Seero, a fortune teller. He determines to visit her and find out if Pearl loves him. Chester also gets one of the cards and also decides to visit the clairvoyant, bent on the same mission as Joe. Pearl sees Joe enter the place and decides to investigate. By a ruse she gets in first and persuades the woman to let her act in her stead, explaining that Joe is one of her admirers and that she wants to have some fun with him. She dresses in Madam's clothes and receives Joe. She reads his palm and he tries to flirt with her. However, after inducing him to give her a pin of his for future recollections, so to speak, she throws him out, where he falls over the surprised Chester, who is waiting in the hall for his turn with the seer. Pearl then beckons Chester to enter. She then proceeds to tell him all about his sweetheart and she is convinced that he is really in love with her, although he is ignorant of the fact that he is confiding his secrets to the one most anxious to hear. Just then a detective enters with a warrant for the fortune teller's arrest, alleging fraud, and insists on taking Pearl with him. Chester intervenes in her behalf and just then the real fortune teller enters and is arrested. Pearl changes her clothes and goes with Chester. They met Joe on the way, and she returns his pin, and then he knows that he was flirting with Pearl and his suit is at an end, leaving Chester in full possession of the field.
- Chester is visiting his sweetheart Pearl. While he was on his way to her house he picked up in the street a note-book, evidently dropped by some passerby. As he was putting on his overcoat, preparatory to leaving, the book fell out of his pocket. He leaves and Pearl finds the book. She opens it and sees on one side of the pages certain entries detailing expenditures incurred in taking out some girl. Pearl becomes insanely jealous. Her friend Violet visits her and Pearl tells her of her discovery of Chester's perfidy. Violet advises Pearl to flirt with some fellow, and thus bring Chester to his senses. Pearl goes out to the street and flirts with a young fellow. She walks with him and they meet Chester. He tries to speak to her but she ignores him and he cannot understand her actions. She takes her new-found beau home and becomes quite friendly with him. Violet again visits Pearl and finds the two together. She immediately starts a fight with Pearl, as the young man visiting her is no other than Violet's steady fellow. She accuses Pearl of treachery and leaves in anger taking the man with her by the ear. Chester then calls to demand an explanation of Pearl's queer actions. She shows him the note book and he explains that he found it. They turn to the flyleaf and sec the name of some salesman inscribed and all ends happily.
- Pearl and Harry ask her father's consent to marry. He refuses. They decide to elope. He learns of it and 'phones the minister and the Justice of the Peace not to marry them. When the young couple call, they are refused. They get an automobile and Pearl kidnaps the Justice of the Peace. Their chauffeur gets drunk while waiting. He goes at a fearful rate of speed, over mountains, through lanes and streets. The Justice, worn out and scared to death, finally gives in and agrees to marry them if they will stop. The chauffeur is induced to desist and the pair are married.
- Hartley, an attorney, leaves his wife and child to visit the city on business. At the theater he falls a victim to the charms of Lola, the star of the production. Meeting her afterward, he is fascinated by her beauty and she, in turn, admires him. Hartley visits her often and the attachment grows, Lola the while unaware that Hartley is married. She visits his town one day and calls at the house. She talks to a child, who seems to be very fond of its father. When the picture, given her by the child, discloses the face of Hartley, Lola nearly collapses. Hartley returns and begs her not to disclose his secret attachment. For the sake of the child Lola keeps silent and returns to the city, where she forgets her love. In time, in the lure of the stage.
- Chester is engaged to Grace. He had just received a letter at his office from Laura Gaines the sister of a chum of his. The letter was on two sheets asking Chester on the first sheet to help her in a business deal and arranging for an appointment on the second sheet, which bore her signature. Chester knocks this last sheet off his desk. Grace visits him and finds the compromising paper. She goes home. Chester telephones her that important business will keep him away that evening. She waxes suspicious and calls up Finder and Pinchem Detective Agency. They assign Pearl, the girl detective to the case. She trails Chester and reports to Grace that he dines at a hotel with a woman. She then goes to Chester's office and gets a job there as stenographer. The next day Chester gets a letter from Miss Gaines, asking him to meet her again. Pearl gets the letter and immediately takes it to Grace. Grace, when Chester calls that evening is very cold to him and he is at a loss to understand. Pearl believing her mission accomplished, wants to resign from her job, but Chester won't let her. Grace, sorry for the way she treated Chester, decides to call at his office. However, Pearl and Chester have grown very fond of each other and when Grace calls they are in each other's arms. Grace is angry and gives Chester back his ring. He gives it to Pearl. Grace goes around to the detective office to complain about Pearl, and Pearl, who is there, resigning, submits her bill, which is $2. Chester meanwhile has discovered Pearl's real identity by finding her notebook, but when she confesses his heart goes out to her and all is well.
- Pearl receives a letter from her cousin, Dora, to the effect that she and her husband are going to Europe, and are going to send Pearl their machine. Pearl and husband decide to learn how to drive a car. They buy complete auto togs and hire a machine. The machine takes all kinds of funny turns. Ulysses is compelled to get out and get under the car. The car starts at a terrific rate. They are fined $50. At last they decide to wait until they get Fred's machine before they do any more riding. The gift arrives and they nearly collapse when they learn that it is a sewing machine instead of an automobile.
- A woman of principle is willing to sacrifice herself for love, but not for the cash of her rich sweetheart's mother.
- Beautiful Bella has two beaus, John whom she likes and Percy whom she tolerates. John is bashful and Bella plays Percy to wake John into a declaration. But Percy becomes a nuisance; he also scares John away. Percy takes Bella for a walk in the park. Then Bella, dressed in her prettiest, jumps into the lake and takes Percy with her. Despite this treatment, Percy sticks. So Bella hires "Kid" Long, a tough nut, to scare Percy. John overhears the girl's plot. Then John pays "Kid" a big prize to let him pose as a hero. "Kid" throws a big scare into Percy who runs away. John gets in a fake "knockout" on the "Kid" and thereby wins Bella who believes him to be a hero.
- Though Mr. and Mrs. Gray are supposed to be in comfortable circumstances, the husband has met business reverses and has been declared a bankrupt. It is after the wife has just completed a lavish social that he tells her. Disgruntled, she goes with him to live at a cheap apartment house. Gray secures employment with a rich broker. Mrs. Gray's friend insists on taking her one afternoon to a party. There she meets Mr. Norman, her husband's employer. Norman, struck with her, pays fast attentions. Some time later Norman sends Mrs. Gray a diamond ring that Mr. Gray has accidentally seen in the office. When Gray returns that evening and finds it on his wife he demands to know where she got it. She lies by saying that she found it. Norman, suspecting the intimacy, resolves to know just how far it has gone. Meantime, Mrs. Gray decides to return the ring and, after writing a note, takes the ring to Mrs. Allen. Here they are met by Norman. Mr. Gray has followed Norman. Gray rushes into the house. The party attempt to conceal Mrs. Gray. The husband draws a revolver. There is a struggle and a shot, which goes through the door, enters Mrs. Gray's shoulder. A doctor is called. Mr. Gray is about to leave when Mrs. Allen shows him the note. Convinced that his wife is innocent, that her relations .with his employer have been without taint, he takes his wife in his arms and forgives, and prays for her hasty recovery from the slight wound.
- Alice Wilson loves and is loved by Robert Grant. He proposes marriage to her and she accepts him on probation, the probation being on account of his unruly temper and wild jealousy. If Alice tells him he can control his temper she will marry him. Ned Morris, a friend of Alice's brother, is introduced to her and is attentive to her. Bob sees this and his jealousy is aroused. The next day he is walking in the woods and he meets Ned. They have words and Bob throws him over a cliff. He believes him dead. However, Ned falls into a tree and is saved. Some men passing see him and lowering a rope lift him to safety. Bob, believing himself a murderer, exiles himself. He grows a beard and hikes west. There he lives a secluded life, living in fear that he will be discovered and arrested as a murderer. He suffers terribly and is slowly but surely cored of his jealousy and fiery temper. Meanwhile Ned recovers from his injury and again courts Alice. She refuses him, her thoughts being of her missing Bob. Ned, who is a traveling salesman, is sent on the road. He visits the town at which Bob is stopping. The boys at the hotel, out for a lark, shave the heads and faces of all in the place. Bob is one of the victims, they shaving off his beard. Ned enters the place and seeing Bob, offers him his hand. Bob, believing it a ghost, screams and faints. They carry him up to his room and Ned volunteers to stay with him until he regains consciousness. When Bob comes to he sees Ned, who assures him that Bob did not kill him. Bob assures Ned that he is sorry for the way he acted and that he will never lose control of himself again, having learned a lesson. Later, Bob returns home, and finding Alice waiting for him he renews his promises and his probation is lifted.
- Hubby cooks the breakfast while Wifie reads the morning newspaper, before going to the office. She complains at his cooking and hubby cries. She arrives at the office and fires her stenographer for coming in late, disregarding his plea that his wife was sick. She hires a new stenographer and then proceeds to fall in love with him. On the following day the husband calls at the office and observes the mad flirtation between his wife and her stenographer and again he sheds tears, with the result that she kicks him out of the office, explaining to the stenographer that he is her tailor. That night Wifie is late in getting home. On the day following Hubby again visits the office and observes the flirtation. He rushes to the station and brings a cop, a husky maid. When she enters she recognizes the stenographer as her husband and drags him off home, while Hubby cries at his wife's duplicity and is only calmed after she promises to be good.
- Nellie is a maid employed in the home of Captain Ronaldson. She is loved by John, the butler. She returns his love, but does not show it forcibly. She receives a letter from her sister, informing her that she is in need of money, as the doctor has ordered her to go to a different climate. Nellie yields to temptation and at an opportune moment steals. The theft is discovered almost immediately. Captain Ronaldson sends for a detective and he questions the help. The detective searches everyone who was in the house at the time. In a moment of desperation Nellie slips the money into John's pocket. He feels it. She looks at him beseechingly, and he is placed in the strange predicament of either sacrificing the girl he loves or going to jail himself. He selects the latter course. When the detective finds the money, he confesses to the theft, and is arrested. John is tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Nellie resolves to save him. She takes the balance of the money, writes a letter with it, saying that it was she and not John who stole the money and enclosing the other half of what was stolen. This she places on Captain Ronaldson's desk. The captain's dog comes in to the room and takes the envelope in his mouth, a trick the captain had taught him. He secretes it in the outhouse. A year passes. Nellie secures another position. Later, the captain is walking with the dog, when the dog leads him to the outhouse. He reads it astonished, and secures John's release. Later, John meets Nellie by accident. His love still the same, he insists upon her forgetting his deed in going to jail for her and insists upon marrying her.
- Hubby won't buy Pearl a new hat. She is angry. His friends visit him and they indulge in a game of poker. Pearl waxes angry. They hear her coming and hide the cards. She goes to sleep and awakens again at 1:30. She steps downstairs again and sees her husband paying out his last dollar. She goes upstairs and dons his clothes. Hubby holds his first winning hand when she enters, levels a revolver and takes all the money. She then goes up to bed. The next day she buys the new hat. When hubby sees it she explains.
- Edith Winslow, daughter of a wealthy parent, is engaged to Chester Brown, a decent fellow. Chester saves her from the advances from the gardener. When the gardener is discharged, he swears vengeance on Chester. Later, the gardener steals some money from Winslow's home under circumstances which compromise Chester. The gardener lays in wait for the boy as he leaves the house and attempts to stab him. Chester runs. A detective is put on the case, meanwhile Chester has put the gardener out of business with a club. Chester imagines that he has killed him and flees. After roaming around he returns to Edith's home and confesses that he has killed a man. She questions him about the theft. He is arrested and is about to be taken away when a laborer arrives at the house with the information that he has found the money in the gardener's clothes. Chester is vindicated and the gardener is arrested.
- Chester is in love with Pearl. Pearl's mother objects to him because he is not wealthy. Pearl walks along the street and finds a letter introducing the bearer as John Henry, a miner, just returned from the west, a miner looking for a job. She hires him to pose as Chester's rich uncle. Chester outfits him and they call. John makes love to the old lady and insists upon all going for an auto ride and to a swell restaurant. There he spends all of Chester's money. This keeps up for a week and the old lady thinks there is no one like John. Just as Chester is almost broke and about to give up, John receives a letter that a mining claim he owned was sold and brought a large profit. He turns some of the money over to Chester and all ends well.
- The long-watched-for mummy arrives at the museum. The professor is so elated. Meanwhile, his niece is being entertained by her beau, whom he strongly objects. Hearing her uncle is coming, she has Harry climb into the davenport. Her aunt and uncle enter and the latter speaks about the mummy. Harry, who is suffocating, begins to yell; the professor is alarmed and looks around. Slowly the lid of the davenport raises and Harry peeks out; the professor discovers him and yanks him out. He orders him out of the house. The college boys play a joke on the professor. They bind Mabel and substitute her for the real mummy. Arriving at the mummy's case the professor is surprised to learn that the mummy is alive; she walks out to him and soon is making love to him. He leaves the room to get a drink. She immediately exits. Returning, the professor is alarmed to find his mummy gone; he runs to the street. Meantime, his daughter has removed her disguise and she and her friends are talking in her home. When they hear her uncle coming they all hide, excepting Mabel. The professor's tale of his loss is soon related and Mabel discovers his mummy.