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- Chester is paying attention to Pearl. Despite this, he persists in flirting with every pretty girl he sees. Pearl s friend. Mabel, after visiting Pearl, meets Chester, who is on his way to see Pearl. He immediately follows her, but she will not flirt with him. The next day Chester again visits Pearl and Mabel calls. She sees Chester and immediately tells Pearl about him. Pearl decides to work a game on him. After he has gone she writes him a note, asking him to meet her the next afternoon, and signs her name to the missive. She dresses her colored maid in some finery and putting a veil on her, induces her to go to the meeting place. Chester, tired of waiting, sees the maid come along, and follows her. She speaks to him and he walks her home. Meanwhile Pearl and Mabel have followed them, as does Mr. Johnson, the maid's fellow, who has penetrated her disguise. The maid takes Chester home, and he never recognizing the house, enters with her. Pearl and Mabel go in. while the angry Mr. Johnson remains outside. Pearl confronts him and demands to know who the woman is. He claims it is his sister until Pearl takes the maid's veil off and he sees that he has been flirting with a coon. He rushes pell mell out of the house entirely cured of his flirting habits. Mr. Johnson, waiting outside, assails him with cane, and Chester runs for his life, while the girls inside are enjoying a huge laugh at his expense.
- 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.
- 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.
- Vivian's ma wishes her to marry De Forrest. Vivian prefers Arthur Coldfeet. Charlie calls. Ma entertains him while Vivian is in the garden with Arthur. Later Charlie meets Arthur and slaps his face. They agree to fight a duel. Vivian learns of it and goes to Arthur's room. She locks him in a closet, dons his clothes and goes to the dueling place. She presents a note to the effect that Arthur has been taken sick, and that the bearer will take his place. The duel starts. Charlie runs. She follows him. They race through the woods, each shooting. Vivian runs home. Charlie follows her. He goes into her room. She locks him in. She then tells her mother that there is a man in her room. Meanwhile, Arthur arrives. He captures Charlie. Vivian's mother denounces Charlie. Arthur kicks him out and with mother's permission takes possession of Vivian.
- Gladys Longacre, the beautiful companion of Prunella Long, the long, lean, lanky and homely tango teacher, gives out Prunella tickets, advertising her dancing classes. She gives them to several men and they, thinking that Gladys is the teacher, decide to join the school. They call and Prunella starts to teach the first. Gladys collects the money and then turns them over to Prunella. They are startled and though angry are forced to go through with it. Big Bill finally takes Gladys bodily and forces her to dance with him. A wild scramble results. The police are called. Prunella blames Gladys, but when that lady shows her the money and divides it she is satisfied.
- Nellie consents to marry Charlie. Father refuses to give his consent. He orders Charlie out of the house. Nellie is heartbroken. She writes a letter telling him she is going to pretend she has taken poison by mistake and scare her father; the maid will be sent for the doctor and instead of going for a real doctor will get Charlie. While leaving the room to get an envelope, the maid enters and reads the letter; she pours some hair tonic into the bottle. Nellie takes the supposed poison and nearly goes into convulsions. The maid calls her father, who calls a real doctor. The doctor tastes the poison and gives Nellie a glass of medicine. Charlie arrives and tips the maid so she will not give away their scheme. He fixes his false beard and enters. The real doctor, becoming indignant, leaves the house. Nellie begs her father to send for Charlie as she is going to die. The doctor leaves the room; he goes down stairs and removes his beard. Her father leaves the room and discovers the beard in the hall. He returns to the bedroom and, much to Nellie's and Charlie's disappointment, throws the latter out.
- A maid and butler take advantage of their employers' absence and have a party.
- Robert Leslie is engaged to marry Alicia. She is walking in the woods one day, when she is accosted by a tramp. She is saved from unpleasantness by Dave Hatton, who chases the tramp away. Alicia, truly graceful, gives Dan a flower as an appreciation for his kindness. Walking, they meet Mr. Leslie, who on seeing Dave becomes jealous. Dave leaves and Alicia and Robert quarrel. She breaks the engagement. Still later the friendship of Dave and the girl ripens into love and they are married. Leslie who is a stock promoter induces Dave to invest his savings in some worthless stock. Dave received a letter from his father telling him that the mortgage on the farm at home is due and requesting Dave to send him $2,000, Dave goes to see Leslie about selling his stock and finds out that Leslie has decamped and that the stock is worthless. Dave, badly in need of money, decided to follow Leslie and being informed that he has gone to Colorado, Dave goes there. There he meets Leslie and demands his money, but is nearly choked to death for his pains. Desperate, Dave determines to kill him and in the night steals to his room, he is about to perpetrate a foul deed when the proprietor of the hotel comes up to his room with a telegram from his wife, who has wired that she is ill and lonesome at)out the cause of his absence. The thought comes to him that he was about to make the girl he loves the wife of a murderer and he decides to go home. Before leaving, gold ore is found in the mine in which he owns stock and Dave sells at a big profit. He returns home and starts life anew, happy in the thought that the Call from Home saved his soul.
- 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.
- 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.
- An amateur dramatic company arrive in Bugville. They are to produce "East Lynne." The curtain rises, and then things begin to happen. The audiences, among whom are a number of small boys, enjoy the performance for a time, but soon tire, and decide to have some fun. They take out their putty blowers and hit the actors with the pieces of putty. Next they throw eggs and cabbage. Consternation reigns, and the play ends when in the final scene the scenery falls and the bed breaks.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alice Howard, the daughter of Colonel Howard, a wealthy retired planter, falls in love with Henry Carleton, her music teacher. Henry tells the proud colonel of his love for Alice and is forbidden to enter the house. The young couple elope and are married. They take up housekeeping in the city, and after trying to gain the parental blessing, which is refused, they gradually drift away from Alice's family altogether. Things go fairly well with the young couple for a while, when Carleton is suddenly taken ill and is forced to take to his bed. He continues to be sick until his entire savings have been exhausted. Meanwhile the colonel has his troubles trying to comfort his wife, who grieves over Alice's forced absence from her home. Alice determines to seek employment, so as to earn enough at least to sustain life in Carleton and herself, until such time as her husband recovers from his illness and is able to resume his own work. She walks the streets from one place to another for days at a time, until finally she obtains employment in a sweatshop, sewing garments on a machine. Her hours are tiresome, but she does not mind that so long as she is earning a living for herself and the man she loves. One day the foreman of the shop, attracted by her rare beauty, attempts to kiss her and she slaps his face. She is discharged. She looks for work elsewhere, and the landlady of their flat threatens to dispossess them unless the rent, which is past due, is paid. Carleton, desperate, though still ill, gets out of bed and goes out, trying to find something to do whereby he can earn some money. He is overcome while on the street and a crowd is attracted. Among them is Jackson, the colonel's faithful old colored butler, who was visiting the city with the colonel. He recognizes Carleton and assists him home. He gives the landlady her money, then gets the colonel and brings him to the house. There, the old gentleman, realizing the depth of Alice's love, and what she has gone through, takes them both to his heart and makes them come home with him.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bob calls on Pearl, his sweetheart, one evening while intoxicated. Pearl orders him from the house and breaks their engagement. Months pass. Bob sinks lower; he becomes a habitué of low dives and saloons. Roger Newton, the successful novelist, is now engaged in writing a novel entitled "The Tramp." He is also paying attentions to Pearl and they are practically engaged. Newton decides to go into the slums to get atmosphere. He finds his way into a saloon where Bob is playing the piano for drinks. Later, Bob saves Newton from assault. Newton, in gratitude, takes Bob home and sets him up as his secretary. Bob meets Pearl and attempts to bring about a reconciliation. Pearl refuses. This is observed by Newton who, failing to understand, grows jealous. Later Newton falls sick and is unable to finish his novel. Bob, returning home, learns of the trouble and takes it upon himself to finish it. A check comes from the publishers for $1,200 with a note saying that the last installment was the best ever. Newton investigates and finds that Bob did the work. Bob refuses the money his friend offers and congratulates both Newton and Pearl on their coming marriage.
- 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.
- 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.
- Belmont, unknown to his wife, attends a poker party. His wife thought he was at a lodge meeting, but as the hours flew by and he did not return she went to bed. Belmont, having lost all his money starts home. In the meantime, however, and just as Mrs. Belmont was about to fall asleep she hears a noise in the room downstairs. It is "Slats" Kenne, a burglar who has gained entrance in the house. She goes downstairs and catches him looking into a closet. She throws him in and locks the door. She then rushes out and finds a policeman. "Slats" meanwhile, has taken off his coat, made a pillow of it and has gone to sleep. Belmont returns and hears "Slats" snore. He opens the closet door and awakens "Slats" The latter gets up, grapples with Belmont, throws him into the closet and runs away, leaving his coat on the floor. The wife and policeman return and release Belmont who explains and is corroborated by the Mrs. The cop goes away and turning a corner meets "Slats." Belmont meanwhile has gone through the coat and has found a large roll of bills, more than enough to offset his losses. He is happy, until the officer returns with the crook and takes the money from him, the crook telling him about it and offering him half. However, the officer keeps all the money and takes "Slats" off to jail, leaving Belmont disconsolate and heartbroken, so nearly recompensed for his expensive "lodge meeting."
- 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.
- Detective Murray is in love with Alice Barton. She is fascinated by his kindly manner and good looks. She sees him attentive to another girl, and her jealousy being aroused, she refuses to see him when he calls. She is proposed to by Fred Wilson, and, despite her mother's warnings, accepts him. They are married and she forgets all about Murray. Not so with Murray, however. A year passes and Fred becomes ill. He loses his position. A doctor is called by Alice to attend him, and she is informed that he has contracted tuberculosis and that he will have to be taken to a different climate. Alice is desperate, and being entirely without funds, knows not what to do. She determines to visit her mother and ask her assistance. Her mother is just in the act of paying out her last money in ready cash to the landlord for his rent. Alice sees this and while neither her mother nor the landlord is looking, she takes the money and goes out. He sees her and runs after her. She eludes him, but not before he had a good look at her and established her identity firmly in his mind. The next day he again sees her, and follows her. He finds out where she lives and demands his money. She denies having taken it, and her husband though ill and worn, becoming enraged at the accusation of theft made against his wife, throws the landlord out of the house. He goes and swears out a warrant for her arrest. He takes it to the police station to get an officer to serve it. Detective Murray is assigned to the job. He goes with the man to Alice's house. Upon his entry he is astounded to discovery that his supposed prisoner was to be the only woman he had ever loved. After listening to her story and discovering that she stole the money in order to try to save her sick husband's life, he, in his goodness of heart, makes good the landlord's loss and induces him to withdraw the charge.
- Lizzie is imbued with the idea that she is not fitted for her duties as a kitchen mechanic, but that her attainments should gel her a job as a heroine in the moving pictures. She goes to a studio and induces the director to give her a trial. Then things happen. She breaks up scene ad causes consternation among the others actors, especially the leading lady, over whom she causes to be spilled a plate of soup. She is fined two dollars. After a hard day's work, she is handed her day's pay, which after deducting the fines, amounts to fifty cents. She goes back to her kitchen convinced that her place is by the gas range and not in a studio.
- Mr. and Mrs. Creighton are troubled with a bad cook. They insist on giving Mary arguments and finally discharge her. That same day Mrs. Creighton receives a letter from her rich uncle, Baldy, informing her that he is coming to visit them. She knows that his one weakness is a good meal, and also that Mary is superior to any cook they might employ. Mary is induced to stay. Baldy arrives and sits down to the first meal. The family is afraid that he might kick, but instead he is immensely pleased. Later he tells Mary that her cooking is great, that he desired her to cook for him through life. She consents and they are married. They return home and the family, seeing his fortune in the hands of their deadly enemy, the cook, are thrown into a state of collapse.
- 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.
- Belmont loves Lucinda, an old maid. She repulses him, and lavishes her affections on Percy, the cop. Belmont interrupts one of their love making séances and is thrown out of the house by Percy. Maggie, Lucinda's cook, quits her job and Baldy seeing Lucinda's advertisement for a new cook, determines to masquerade as a woman, and obtains the position, so as to be near the lady of his dreams. He hires a costume and applies for the position, and is accepted and installed as cook. Baldy certainly proves to be an affectionate cook, kissing and hugging Lucinda on the slightest provocation. Percy calls and is fascinated by the charming and well-mannered cook. Baldy accepts his attentions, which have now been transferred from Lucinda, and when invited to take a walk with Percy, accepts. Lucinda sees them and upon their return, discharges Baldy and berates Percy for his unfaithfulness. Percy denies the accusation that he had taken the cook out, and Lucinda proceeds to scratch Baldy's face, but only succeeds in dislodging his wig of beautiful auburn hair, exposing his duplicity and unveiling his real self. Lucinda and Percy nearly faint from shock, but Percy recovers in time to trounce Baldy severely and to wind up by kicking him out of the house and out of Lucinda's affection forever.
- A young woman married to a cad who has deserted her, and disowned by her father, seeks employment as a cabaret singer.
- Nellie, the country girl, is very much in love with Chester. He seems to like her until Nellie Thomas is employed by the other Nellie's people as housemaid. He transfers his affections, and when Nellie's father catches him kissing Miss Thomas, he orders him from the place. Chester then writes a letter to Miss Thomas asking her to meet him at the minister's and they will be married. He gives the letter to Stupid Sam to deliver and Stupid gives it to the wrong Nellie. She reads it and in her haste to make the minister's house on time, drops it. The real Nellie, for whom the letter was intended, finds it, and decides to go and meet Chester herself. She goes on horseback and the other Nellie goes in the family runabout. Nellie's horse goes lame and meeting the other Nellie on the road is invited by her to attend her wedding, and invites Nellie to ride in the runabout. This she does and they both meet Chester. He quickly shows where his love lies and the hired girl is married to him, while her namesake and rival goes home in chagrin.
- Hubby is a sport. His wife, who loves him dearly, awaits his homecoming one night and finally falls asleep in her chair. Hubby continues to have a good time at the poolroom, forgetting all about wife and home. The pool room is raided and Hubby climbs up the fire escape and enters a room. It is that of a small boy, asleep. In order to escape through the line of policemen surrounding the building, he dons the boy's clothing and leaves his own. He returns home, passes his wife, who still sleeps, and turns in after hiding his stolen clothes. The next morning he swears that he was in early and his wife believes him until the boy calls at the house dressed in hubby's clothes. Confronted with the evidence, Hubby is forced to give the clothing back and stand a severe lashing from his wife. An amusing farce.
- Baldy Belmont and his friend kept bachelor apartments. Baldy is tired of eating and cooking and when he sees Martha Blodgett's ad in the newspaper for a husband he responds. She calls on the bachelors. When Baldy sees the wizened old maid he beats a hasty retreat. His friend is cooking his meal and Martha enters. She finishes the meal for him. In taking her kerchief from her pocketbook, his friend notices her bank book, which she accidentally drops. He makes love to her and after tasting her cooking he proposes marriage. Baldy returns and when he sees the fine meal his friend is enjoying and learns that Martha cooked it, he begins to regret his hasty action in so quickly judging the merits of Martha as a wife from her looks. He also discovers her bank book and the amount written therein as being to her credit and hastens to try to make amends. He finds that Martha and his friend have gone, but awaits their return. When they do return and Baldy is introduced to Martha as his friend's wife, he is in a state of collapse. He goes out into the garden and induces a boy to shoot the water hose at him to cool his rising anger and ardent love.
- Willie decides to play a joke on his elders, so he dresses up in Pa's clothes and dons whiskers just like Pa's. In the street he plays a trick on a policeman. When Pa comes along he gets the blame. Pa is sweet on the school teacher, Pearl. Pearl likes Pa, but does not like his whiskers, so Pa cuts them off. Willie keeps his on. One minute Pearl sees Pa with his whiskers on and the next with them off. Pearl nearly loses her mind. Incidentally her jealousy is aroused by seeing the supposed Pa with his arms around Arabella. Willie also causes lots of trouble for Arabella and her suitors. However, Pa catches him and Willie "gets his."
- Baldy loves the widow Smith. She makes eyes at the handsome policeman on the beat. Baldy hires a tough guy to play a burglar and enter her house. He dresses as a policeman and goes in after him. Mrs. Smith sees the burglar and runs out for a cop. Meanwhile, Baldy and the fake burglar have a furious tussle. Just as he is about to drag his prisoner off, the real cop arrives and both of them are arrested for unlawful entry and dragged off to jail. Baldy lost another chance to be a hero.
- 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.
- Baldy Belmont is in love with Jessie. Her father can't see him at all and insists upon Jessie marrying Dick, an old friend of his, Jessie will have nothing to do with Dick, preferring Baldy. Father catches Baldy making love to Jessie and kicks him out of the house. He then brings Dick in, and insists upon Jessie making up to him. Belmont is wild and knows not what to do. He walks along the street disconsolate, when he passes a costumers. There he sees a suit of armor and other costumes of a Roman gladiator, of old, and remembering that Jessie contains a statue of this description, he hires the costume. He goes home, puts it on and walks to Jessie's house. He is followed by an immense crowd in the street and a policeman thinking him a maniac, runs after him. Baldy refuses to stop at the policeman's orders, and he shoots at him. Baldy is hit by one of the bullets. This only hastens his speed and he arrives at Jessie's house just as Dick is making an impassioned speech of love into Jessie's unwilling ears. Baldy removes the statue and takes its place. Jessie's father enters and talks to the young couple. Baldy hits first one and then the other over the head with his club and each thinks that the other is doing it. They fight and Dick is getting the best of it when Baldy interferes and throws Dick out of the house. Baldy has a reward for his bravery, gets papa's consent to his marriage to Jessie.
- Chester is Pearl's sweetheart. Her father dislikes Chester. He reads in a book of the great superiority of mind over matter, by the proper exercise of the will and determines to try it on Chester. This he does and wills that Chester leave his house. In the middle of a conversation with Pearl, Chester suddenly rushes from the room. This state of affairs continues on and off, until Pearl by accident came across the book and understands her beau's strange actions. The next time Chester calls, Pa again wills that he go, but Pearl wills that he remain and Chester is kept running in and out of the house until Pearl's superior and stronger will wins and he remains. Pa sinks exhausted and consents to allowing Chester's attentions to Pearl
- Vivian, a pretty country girl, lives with her father. She meets Dick Townboy who falls in love with her. Her father objects. Townboy pretends that he is a boarder looking for lodge rooms. Pa puts Dick to work. Dick finally asks him for Vivian's hand in marriage. Pa refuses, saying that if Vivian were married he would be without a housekeeper. Dick then writes a letter to his friend, Charlie, telling him of his love suit, and the reason for his being unable to marry the girl. He asks Charlie to come up disguised as a woman and make love to the old gent. Charlie arrives and introduced to Pa who admires him, then he is introduced to Vivian and immediately kisses her. Dick is furious. The old man primps up and tries to fascinate the newcomer. He proposes and is accepted. Charlie introduced to his stepdaughter and kisses her. Dick loses control of himself and kicks Charlie out. Pa grabs a pistol and chases Dick. Meanwhile Charlie is making love to Vivian. Pa returns and is surprised when Vivian tells him that the woman is a man. Pa chases Charlie, who overtakes Dick. They blame each other and proceed to fight.
- Helen, daughter of Mrs. Morris a wealthy widow, devoted her time to teaching at St. James Settlement House helping the sick and needy in the tenement district. Helen's mother at home alone, longs for companionship while her daughter is in the Settlement. Mrs. Morris becomes seriously ill and is attended by Dr. Gerald, Helen's ardent admirer. Helen neglects her mother and lover to devote herself to the care of Mrs. Dawson whose daughter is entertaining her beau, another of Helen's protégés. The trained nurse neglects Mrs. Morris while her patient cries in vain for a drink of water. Helen returns home to find her mother unconscious on the floor while the nurse is flirting with the butler. Fully awakened by the incident, Helen resigns from the Settlement Club and vows to devote her time and companionship to her own mother and lover.
- Pearl has been forbidden to speak by her aunt, to young men. Unknown to the aunt, Pearl has met and fallen in love with Charlie. Willie De Vere visits the old aunt, Samantha, with a letter of introduction, and he is immediately spotted and labeled as a victim to adorn her own hearth-stone. Willie meets Pearl and falls in love with her. He also meets Charlie, and in order to escape the advances of the old aunt, hires Charlie to make love to her. Charlie, with the prospects of gaining access to the house, takes the job and later informs Pearl of what he has done. Together they hatch a scheme. A letter is written by Pearl to Willie telling him that she can no longer keep the secret of his love for her aunt a secret. This letter, falling into the hands of the aunt, as it was intended, causes her to accept Charlie as Pearl's fiancé. Willie, when he arrives to pay respects to Pearl, is showered with caresses from the aunt, but in the end she is left to herself and Charlie and Pearl are married.
- Arabella lives with her brother Jabez. They receive a letter informing them that if either marry they lose an inheritance. Geraldine, their niece, visits them. She is paid attentions by Joe. Arabella objects to his attentions and would like him for herself. Geraldine and Joe hatch a scheme. She writes a letter, seemingly from Joe, asking her to meet him. Arabella finds it. She tries to keep the appointment. Jabez discovers it. He gets a gun and goes hunting for Joe. Meanwhile Joe and Geraldine get married. Arabella discovers this, and is just in time to prevent Jabez from shooting the minister and Joe. When he discovers that she has not married and lost her inheritance, he is happy and resolves to wish Geraldine and Joe good health.
- Mary, who is employed us a stenographer, spends her time reading magazines. Her mind is full of strange thoughts. She is in the office alone. The handsome stranger calls, and seeing the large safe, determines that she, his unknowing victim, shall reveal to him the combination. He takes her out to supper. There she is introduced to the other arch conspirator. She sees through her mirror that they are trying to give her drugged wine, but she thwarts them by throwing it in their face. She runs. The unrelenting villains pursue her. Down a steep hill she rolls. The villains follow. At last, exhausted, she falls limp. They capture her and bring her back to the office. There they try to induce her to reveal the combination to the safe. She flaunts defiance in their faces. They take off her shoes and by tickling the sole of her feet, she opens the safe and as they enter, she swings the heavy doors shut, and locks them in. Her employer returns, and she explains. The arch-conspirators are arrested and dragged off to jail. Mary's employer lays his heart and hand at her feet and offers her his entire fortune if she will only consent to marry him. Mary is in ecstasy when she is rudely awakened by her employer shaking her and telling her that she is discharged for sleeping during business hours.
- Box is a printer. He works all night. Cox is a hatter. He works all day. Box rents a room from Mrs. Bouncer, a lodging-house keeper, telling her he will only use it in the daytime. Cox visits Mrs. Bouncer and asks for a room, telling her he will only use it at night. She rents the same room to both of them. Then starts a strange series of situations. Mrs. B. must get Cox out of bed before Box comes home and Box out of bed before Cox comes home. She uses all sorts of subterfuges to keep Box downstairs in the dining-room while Tillie, the housemaid, chases Cox out of the house and then straightens up the room. This works for a while until one day Cox oversleeps and Mrs. B. thinking he has gone, allows Box to go upstairs. He tumbles into bed and is surprised to find it occupied. A fight follows and Box kicks Cox downstairs. He complains to Mrs. B, and going upstairs with Cox confesses that she had rented the room to the both of them. Box, who up to this moment had not noticed Cox, recognizes him as an old acquaintance and renewing all old ties they agree to share the room together.
- The bachelors, when they complain of the food, get a rolling pin over their heads, manipulated by the colored housekeeper. The housekeeper is fired and said bachelors advertise for a new one. In answer to this a beautiful girl visits the house; she is hired. It is not long before all three of the bachelors, Burk, Don and Charlie are infatuated with the new girl. They shower her with presents, help her in her work and finally fight over her. Later, each presents her with a diamond ring. But the surprise of their lives is when the pretty cook introduces them to her husband and leaves.
- 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.
- Holtz, Schultz and Schmaltz are three friends. They attend a meeting of spiritualists and discuss things pertaining to the other world. They separate and go home. Holtz upon his arrival is shocked to find upon his opening his door, a large black coffin. Frightened out of his wits, he runs from the house. He meets Schultz, and Schultz doubting his story, accompanies him home. He sees the same sight, and they both run away. They then go to Schultz's home, and the same thing awaits them there. They run again, and meeting Schmaltz, tell him of their strange experiences. He accuses them of having the meeting they attended on their mind, but agrees to go with them to Schultz's room. He goes, and he also sees this gruesome object. He takes them to his room and there also is a strange black coffin. They run out and get a policeman. All four come back, and after much hesitation on the part of all, the officer goes to the coffin to see what it contains. He finds a letter from a friend of Schmaltz, who is an undertaker, explaining that as he is retiring from business, he is presenting his friends with a coffin, in the belief that they will need it some day.
- 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.