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Billie enjoys flirting with the ladies, and so does Henry, although he's married. Trouble erupts when both men bring dates to the same beer garden, and Billie's date turns out to be Henry's wife.

The Sand Dow family are at breakfast. The janitor, called by his alarm clock, to which he had attached a feather which tickled his feet, slept underneath the tank in the gym and had a trap door through which he emerged. Gladys was the belle of the ladies' department, and Al of the men's. Sand Dow flirted with the girls, and Mrs. with the men. At last each had an idea. They called the janitor and told him to bring disguises in which they would look like each other. When they emerged even the janitor was completely fooled. It was too hot so they closed the gym and went to the beach. San Dow had a wonderful time with the girls, and Mrs. had a lovely time with the men. But the sweethearts were each planning a chance to get together. Each party got into swimming suits as quickly as possible. The men had brought a lunch, but the girls had none, so San Dow decided to go fishing. He used his own carcass for bait, and came up with fishes hanging on his person. The janitor was instructed to cook the fish, and the girls sat down to wait. The other party was lunching, and the janitor got mixed and threw the fish to the men instead of the girls. Sand Dow went to remonstrate and recognized his wife. He snatched Gladys and ran. Mrs. decoys Al. He opens a sandwich and puts sand in it, giving it to her. As she sputters he makes a getaway and rejoins Gladys. San Dow comes up and fights Al, while Mrs. fights him for Al. The husband and wife recognize each other. Dan beats it with Gladys and Mrs. follows. After a chase, the picture ends in a pie fight.

Two hotel bell hops get into all kinds of shenanigans between dames, baths and bags of loot.

Billie was playing a cornet and thought he was the only fellow making a noise. Oscar, his rival, however, was blowing a trombone in the near vicinity and the girl evidently preferred sonorous notes to light airy ones, as she picked Oscar and left Billie blowing flat notes. This made him sore and he attempted to throw Oscar into the creek. They both fell into a sand pile. Her ill feeling was not helped when Oscar got a job playing solos in the village meeting house which Billie had been trying to land for a month. Billie took a lemon to the concert, however, and when Oscar commenced his solo, Billie sat in the front row and squeezed the sour fruit. This so puckered Oscar's tonsils that he couldn't blow a note. The concert was upset and Oscar chased Billie onto the roof. Billie thought he was going to escape in the bell, but he didn't know Oscar was going to ring it from below. Neither did Oscar realize the roof was going to collapse when he chased Billie out on it. Also the girl did not realize the roof was going to fall on her, nor did the congregation want to get hit with plaster. But they all did.

Nobody suspected that the village loafer had a past until a tall stranger appeared one day and shot him in a bar room. The posse captured him and were about to hang him, until he exclaimed, "Wait, I'll tell you why I shot him!" It seems that they were boys together, pals until the girl appeared. The stranger won her and thought he would be happy, but he had not figured on his friend's perfidy and fleas. His false friend put the fleas in his wedding clothes, which made the groom act so strangely that the bride threw him over and he had to run over the hills in his underwear, having removed his clothing to hunt for the hoppers. The false one married the girl and the other swore he would scour the earth until he found and killed the traitor. This tale moved the posse and they let him go. The village loafer came to life and the stranger got one look at the erstwhile sweetheart. One look was enough, and he was glad he had not married her and also have to live with the wench many years more. This was better than an assassination.

A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.

Alice and another girl who work in a tailor shop are much mistreated. They are not even allowed to have enough to eat, as the Boss is so greedy that it hurts him to see other people happy. After dinner he makes Alice and her friend go to work. But they rebel and try to get the old man in an uncomfortable position. This succeeds at first, but in the end he gets out of their clutches and begins to drive them all the harder. Alice is told that she must go out to drum up some trade. This is done by ripping men's pants with a hook and then presenting him with a card that says that very neat pressing and mending is done at the Boss's establishment. In this way Alice hooks Mr. Astorbilt, who goes with her to the shop. Here he takes off his pants so that they can be mended and in them the Boss finds an invitation to a ball that is to be given that night addressed to a count. This he takes. Then he decides to hold up the wealthy man and throws him into the cellar. There he has an instrument of torture rigged up so that if the man does not sign a check for a million dollars he will be crushed by a rock that is hanging over his head. Alice rescues him, and the grateful man invites her and her companion to the ball. At the affair Alice creates a sensation by a dance which she performs. The Boss arrives, disguised as a count. At last the time for the "eats" arrives, and the count sneaks upstairs to steal the jewels. He gets them, but as he is leaving the house the butler sees him and makes him come in to dinner. It is there that he is unmasked, as Alice remembers the music of his soup inhalation and exposes him. Then there is a great battle to see if they can catch the crook. At last they do get him and the dinner continues. At the end of the meal Mr. Astorbilt says that he is going to announce his engagement and Alice is excited as she thinks she is going to be the lucky one. But the man says that the other girl is the lucky one and Alice is crestfallen. Sadly she goes home to her Boss, cured of her high aspirations.

Eddie Barry and Harry Mann are the owners of a bird and animal store, of which Harry is the crooked partner. Arriving at the store one morning, Harry is unable to unlock the door because a monkey has inserted a hose nozzle in the keyhole, and plays the spray on Harry. Harry goes to Eddie's house for the key and gets into some awkward complications with Eddie's wife, and he also be comes the idol of Eddie's mother-in-law. Eddie and his wife have an argument over the mother-in-law, and they say they are going to break up their home. Harry Mann, by mistake, receives the two notes telling of their intentions to leave their home, so he rents Eddie's house to Harry Griffin and Bartine Burkett, a vaudeville team. Eddie has met Bartine in his store and has a picture of her in tights, without her face showing. Meeting her husband in the park, he shows him this picture, with the address, and then a chase ensues between the husband and Eddie. Everything is settled until Eddie and his wife decide to return to their home, which at the same time is occupied by Griffin and Bartine, and a great many complications result.

Billie and Henry, demons of love and jealousy, are both in love with the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do farmer. They vie for her hand, duel with eggs and bricks, until one makes a getaway with the girl in a car, the other close behind.

Kid Cameraflage, the Chief's chauffeur, was secretly married to the maid. She had promised to take good care of him before he married her, but everything was different now, for he was made to do the menial work and become a full-fledged kitchen mechanic to meet the high cost of living. The Chief and his wife were happy. They had a battle every other minute. The Chief gets an order from the Mayor, advising him that all blackhanders must be clean-shaven. This aggravates one of the blackhanders, who picks himself out a well-fed bomb, and wends his weary way to the office of the Mayor. Kid Cameraflage, whose duties varied, was lining up the cuspidors, when he spied the bomb nestling in one of them. Everyone looked on to see the Kid's finish, but picking the bomb up courageously, he flung it out of the window, hitting the blackhanders, and saved the day. "You're fired!" said the Mayor to the Chief. "You're hired!" said the Mayor to the Kid. "You're chauffeur!" said the Kid to the Chief, and so the Chief became the chauffeur, while the chauffeur became the chief. Returning home, the ex-chauffeur and the maid took possession of the Chief's house. Kid Cameraflage fell asleep in Mrs. Chief's room. The maid tried to detain the Chief by fainting in his arms. Friend wife, seeing her husband's arms full of maid, entered her room, and she found the Kid trembling in her clothes closet. Thereupon she, too, fainted. The ex-Chief's bullets send the Kid to the roof, but they all drop through the skylight and land back where they came from. Explanations are in order, and the Kid relinquishes his right to Chiefdom.

The four young married folks were all cursed with the artistic temperament, but unfortunately, in humoring it, they all got into the same studio unknown to each other. Bill's wife went to look at paintings. Bill went because he saw a swell-looking model going thither, and the latter's husband went because he imagined himself a connoisseur. Bill got confused at so much art and tried to tickle a lady's toes. She turned out to be his own wife and Bill made a quick exit back to the next room where the other model was. Her husband entered at this moment and didn't like to see his wife in draperies and a pleasant smile. He showed his displeasure so strongly that Bill put on a gladiator's suit to avoid the smoke and excitement. This didn't help him as a policeman tried to arrest him for indecency. Bill tried hard to escape. His wife also ran. The other husband and wife also got into the running, followed by two persistent cops who attempted to shield the ladies from the public's gaze with their coats. Everybody fell into a big ditch except Bill, who got out and covered the rest up with wet sand.

A knot hole in the fence leads to the undoing of the married man, who, glimpsing at the pretty bride next door, proceeds to make himself agreeable. Not averse to admiration, the bride amuses herself, thereby arousing the jealousy of her husband, who starts out to punish the intruder. The pretty bride is forgiven, but the making up is marred by the eye at the knot hole. Enraged, the husband slips up to the fence and pokes his finger in the eye, but in an effort to see through the knot hole what damage he has inflicted, he, in turn, gets his eye poked by the intruder. His ire aroused, he gets his gun and starts out for blood. Self-protection necessary, the intruder gets his gun, takes it on the chase, until the wife of the intruder corners him, putting to use her washtub-developed muscle.

The two old flirts flirted just once too often, as is always the case. They did not know that the city wherein they dwelt employed female police officers and ran afoul one of them, a beauty. Of course, they quarreled over her. You could not blame them, for she was a beauty and seemed such easy prey. Bill got the better of the argument to start with, but Gene called a real cop but reported that it was his sister whom Bill was annoying and had him pinched; the judge was not feeling well that morning and gave Bill five years for annoying the schoolchildren. Gene, left alone on the field, thought he was having a great time flirting with the little girl. But all the time she was leading him into a trap. Gene, poor old man that he was, followed her headlong right into the police station, where he was nabbed and sentenced to a long term. He was shoved into the flirts' cell with Bill. Right there the cops did wrong, for they fought like two wildcats. Bill was shoved through the wall and into the station, where the cops were playing cards. This angered them so they started in to administer a severe drubbing to Bill. In the mix-up Bill got away and ran into the arsenal, where he lit a cigarette and blew up the place.

Daughter liked the plumber, but father couldn't see the pipe twister as a husband for his only child. When he made a visit, father was rude and requested him to leave. He came back, but had to stand outside in the cold and talk to his sweetheart through the second-story window. He was not there long as daughter plugged up the sink with some of her own blonde hair. The sink overflowed, and father was forced to holler for the plumber. Of course the plumber who responded was daughter's sweetheart. All would have gone well had he not gotten the pipes mixed up and connected the gas pipe to the water pipe and vice-versa. Meanwhile father had guests to dinner. They got water when they wanted gas and gas when they wanted water. Finally, someone who failed to realize that gas and matches were uncongenial caused an unexpected explosion. Fire departments, life nets, thrills, police, excitement, and a canvas net in which a fat man got stuck, come on in rapid succession. The plumber saves the family, but himself falls into the cellar in five feet of cold water.

The father attempts to cut into society with a flourish, but he comes out much faster than he goes in. His fields of conquest are the lobby and ballroom of a fashionable hotel, where he attempts to charm a pretty woman. In so doing he neglects to ascertain whether she has a husband or not. Accordingly when the lady offers to loan him a pair of trousers for the ball, he does not know they are her husband's until the latter discovers him. Reuben loses his trousers and gets into the ballroom minus his dignity. He contrives to get out of this safely and the whole affair might have blown over had he not unknowingly gotten back into the husband's room and into his disappearing bed just as the latter was about to retire. Any inclination between the two to make up was, of course, shattered by this event. Attempting to escape. Reuben runs into a lady's bath room and is then chased by her husband who is armed with two big revolvers.

The wedding dinner would have gone off without a hitch had not the disappointed rival been present. He attempted to make disparaging remarks about the groom on a note, and pass it under the table to the bride. The groom got it, and wrote back for the rival to meet him across the hall. The rival thought it was the bride, and went gladly. He discovered his mistake when the groom followed him over and locked the door behind him. Dumb bells, weights and other physical culture paraphernalia were some of the things with which the groom intended to chastise the rival. The rival, however, had some undiscovered bumps of muscle and the groom, instead of punishing him, had to flee man for his life A with the gout, a lady with a jealous husband, and a fire hose, were some of the impediments which delayed the groom's flight. These delays were also fatal to the bride's family as they were drawn into the unpleasantness and things happened which were not quite proper at weddings.

Harry finds a wallet stuffed with bills in the park. The "fat beauty" is seen in the distance and Harry drops his wallet when she is near and pretends it is hers. She pockets the money. Later, she carries on a similar flirtation with two other admirers and then goes home. One of them has presented her with a valuable necklace which he attempts to secure. He follows her to her room and then sees her disrobe. She has a false wig. Henry writes a note to Harry saying that if he disguises as a burglar he may recover the necklace. However, before he has an opportunity of sending the note, Miss Jane, the fat beauty, discovers him and he runs away. A real burglar then attempts to steal the necklace, the police follow him and the shots blow off the fat beauty's wig amidst much excitement.

A pair of thieves agree to the demands of one's wife and the other's girlfriend to give up their life of crime and go straight--after one last safe-cracking.

The minister wanted cash down for performing the ceremony, so Billie didn't get married. He left the bride waiting and went out to raise some "mazuma." During his absence a poor but nervy guy stepped in and tried to grab the bride, but the minister showed caution and demanded a fee. This individual didn't have it either, and he was forced to go out just as the bride's father was coming in. Meanwhile, Billie had contrived to get hold of a purse and was returning when he met the departing individual, who relieved him of it. Billie retrieved the purse, but this didn't help him, for when he got back to the bride her father was there, and he had a decided aversion to Billie. The polite thing was to leave, which Billie did. Father also left; so did a squad of cops who were careless with their guns. Bill went down a manhole, father did likewise, the individual was also present, and the cops were also on hand. How they all got out no one knows except the individual, and he was in no condition to tell.

A young man books passage on a ship for himself and his fiancée to escape the police, who are looking for him. After the ship sails, he runs into a passenger who turns out to be a man he cheated and set adrift--his father. The father plans revenge on his double-crossing son, first by trying to steal his fiancée from him, and then by more sinister means. However, the ship suddenly runs into a fierce storm, and it's every man for himself.

Phil is a corn-fed country boy, and Mert is pleasingly plump and mischievous. She rakes the meadows and Phil at the same time. Pop Snodgrass, her father, does not like Phil. He chases him up the windmill, and Phil gets caught in the fans, and whirls around at a great rate. Pop thinks he is rid of him for good. However, a change in the wind throws him into Mert's room, and then Pop is mad. Tinhorn Ted is in jail. However, he steals a saw from a passing workman, and escapes. He hides in a mail bag, and is delivered with the rest of the bags at Pop's place. Pop receives a letter introducing a famous artist, who is recommended to him by a friend. "He wants to paint a pig," says the letter, "so I sent him to you." Pop is delighted and says the artist shall be Mert's husband. Ted determines to impersonate the artist. He meets the real one, beans him and takes his outfit, locking the senseless artist in the hen house. Ted is then presented to Mert as the artist, and she plays and sings for him, to his great agony. They are spooning under a tree, when Phil puts a hen coop over Ted's head. Pop rescues him and spanks Mert. Phil and Mert then determine to elope. Phil is taking Mert out of her window down a ladder when Pop catches him and he runs off down the street balancing Mert on top of the ladder. Pop overtakes them and sends Mert to school. Ted meets his accomplice, Melba Sundae, at the school to kidnap Mert, the heiress. The girls are all in overalls, and Melba puts on a wonderful silk pair. Phil arrives, too, following Mert. The snobbish girls are horrid to Mert, but surround Phil. The mistress throws him out, so he disguises as a little girl and returns. Mert says he is her twin. The girls go to bed, and Melba stays up waiting for Ted. The mistress takes Phil to her room to comb his hair, and his wig comes off. He runs. Mert is kidnapped by Melba and Ted, and Phil follows them to the city. Mert is taken to a café below the street level, and Phil slides through a manhole to get in. Ted introduces Mert as the new dancer, and Phil comes to rescue her. There is a fight, and Mert is carried off in an auto. Phil takes a bicycle from a cop and gives chase. At last they are both caught in the safety fenders of a street car. Moving Picture World, August 11, 1917