Nina, the Flower Girl, is blind. She lives in a tenement next to a hunchback newsboy who has some native ability to model clay figures, but to no other purpose than that of making a beautykins figure of Nina. She is left dependent upon him by the death of her grandmother, and a strong affection is built up between the two unfortunates. Now come a lot of Fairy Princes and Fairy Godmothers in plain clothes, just some ordinary people of warm hearts, and Nina is taken from her simple life. A great physician is called to operate upon her eyes in the house of a wealthy family. The newsboy suspects without reason that all is not on the level in this house of wealth and decides to murder its scion in cold blood, a strained and illogical situation, but he discovers that he is mistaken. The blind girl is having her sight restored, but the newsboy cannot bear to have her see him; she has imagined that he is handsome, so he attempts suicide. Again he is saved by mere accident. He is carried to the hospital and straightened. All this is done by the doctor who restores Nina's sight. The boy and girl are finally left in each other's arms, and it is made reasonably sure that they will survive, the "Beautykins" figure is having a big sale. Without the attempted murder and the attempted suicide this would be a clean little, humanizing story like those Dickens wrote for Christmas reading, and it is attractive in spite of those defects. Everybody is kind and good. There are no villains and no suspense; just some good old stock characters nicely led through a sweet little episode. – The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1917
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