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- Charlie advertises for a wife. Madeline Blue, widow, writes Charlie to the effect that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a white rose while she will do the same. The queen of the anarchists also writes to a prospective member who is anxious to meet her, that she will meet him at the park gate and that he is to wear a white rose. The queen and Charlie are the first to arrive at the meeting place. Charlie is dragged off to the anarchist's rendezvous by the queen under the impression that he is an applicant for membership. The other man meets Madeline and accompanies her home where she and her uncle are arrested under suspicion of being bomb throwers. The stranger turned out to be a detective. After many difficulties the girl and her uncle are released. Meanwhile Charlie has had his trouble. He finally makes his escape after having been ordered to blow up the judge, and succeeds in meeting Madeline and developing quite a romance.
- 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.
- Each of three room-mates proposes to the same woman.
- Katrina's mistress is called away suddenly. Katrina's friend, Joe, invites her to go to the beach the following day. The next day Joe calls and is surprised to find out that Katrina does not intend to go, as she has no pretty clothes. Joe talks to her and suggests a plan. Shortly after she meets Joe. He does not recognize her, as she is now a blonde with beautiful clothes. They arrive at the beach and decide to go in swimming. On her way to the bath house, Katrina meets two handsome young men who flirt with her. This immediately arouses jealousy in Joe. He tips the bath house attendant and instructs him to lock the two men in the houses. Katrina soon appears in her bathing suit and is the center of attraction on the beach. Joe, raging with jealousy, buys a knife and a bomb and immediately things begin to happen.
- Claude Belmont, the poet, is very fond of Jessamine. Also is he very fond of liquor. So is his housemaid. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in the drawer of his desk, where, it being discovered by Bridget, she helps herself. Claude discovers a shrinkage in his stock and decides upon a novel scheme to stop the purloining of his precious stock. He pours the whiskey into a bottle labeled "Carbolic Acid," and pours some crude oil into the whiskey bottle. He then goes out, and proposes marriage to Jessamine and is rejected. He vows that he will kill himself. Meanwhile Bridget is entertaining her friend the policeman, and goes up for some of the whiskey. She brings down two glasses full, and she and the policeman drink it. They both become very sick, the crude oil doing its work well. Claude comes home and, being absent-minded, takes a drink of what he thinks is the whiskey. He, too, is taken very sick, and Jessamine, who has followed him to the house, finds him in a lamentable condition. She determines to join him in death, and drinks from the bottle marked "Carbolic Acid," only to find that it contains whiskey. She runs out of the house and is done with Claude forever, while the three unlucky whiskey-lovers await the passing of their seemingly unending agony.
- 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.
- Joe is in love with Geraldine. Her father objects to him, claiming that Joe is not the brave man and that the man who marries his daughter must be a hero. Joe leaves the house in disgust. He reads in a newspaper that a bear has escaped from the zoo. He hits upon a novel scheme. He gets his friend John to go to a costumer with him and there he gets him a bear's skin and head, which he makes him wear. Joe next goes to Geraldine's father, and tells him about the escape of the bear. Her father, who is always boasting what a great hunter he is, agrees to take Joe with him and they go out to hunt the bear. Joe has John stationed in the woods, and when father appears, John chases him up a tree. Joe stays in the background enjoying the fun. Meanwhile, "Si" Hopkins, a farmer, has also heard of the escape of the bear and also goes hunting him. He spies John and opens fire on the supposed bear. John is just about to meet his death when Joe explains that the bear is human and saves his skin. Joe tells John to lie down as if dead and then goes for father. He brings him back and shows him how he killed the bear. John moves a leg and father again runs away. At last they go home and father agrees to Joe's marrying his daughter providing he doesn't tell of his cowardice.
- Jabez Hardy, a hard-hearted old bachelor, discharges his nephew, Chester, from his employ because he married without the old gentleman's consent. Pearl, Chester's wife, whom Uncle had never seen, decides to get a position in Uncle's office, with a view to getting Chester his job back. She is engaged as typist, and Uncle is very much smitten with her. He pays her attentions, and one evening insists upon seeing her to her home. She invites him in, and Chester, seeing them coming, hides. The old gent is making love to Pearl, when Chester enters the room with a gun and pretends to be very angry. He recognizes his uncle and, after expressing his surprise, introduces him to his wife. Uncle congratulates the pair and leaves the couple serene in the belief that Chester will be re-employed. However, Uncle dispatches a letter to Chester, telling him that as his wife is such a treasure he has no need of any other, so he has made a will leaving his entire fortune to a Chinese missionary fund. The young couple are very much chagrined, but have to make the best of the plot, that failed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Charlie's uncle receives a letter from a friend of his informing him that his friend, Mr. Grantley, has died and that he has entrusted to him the care of Mr. Grantley's beautiful daughter, Helen. Charlie's uncle informs Charlie that he is called away on a trip and asks Charlie to care for his new ward. Helen arrives and Charlie is smitten with her beauty. He decides on a scheme. He disguises himself as an old man and masquerades as Helen's new guardian. He is very lavish in his display of love-making and all in all is very attentive. At times he doffs his disguise and appears as his natural self and is also attentive to Helen. The next day he is still in his disguise of the old man when the uncle returns unexpectedly. He introduces himself as Helen's guardian, but is compelled to call in his housekeeper to prove it. Charlie enters at that moment and the old man kicks him out of the house. He takes off his disguise and meeting a friend on the street he changes clothes with him. He then enters the house and his uncle, glad to see him, entrusts Helen to his care, while poor Charlie is compelled to pay the housekeeper some money, to keep the secret of his masquerading for his uncle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Charlie suffers terribly with attacks of acute indigestion, so his wife sends Morris to the doctor for medicine. Maude, farmer Jones's mule, is sick too, and Jones sends a farm hand to the veterinary to get some medicine. Morris gets the medicine and starts on the way home. The farm hand comes along the road with the medicine bottle in his hand and trips over Morris's wheel. They both fall and mix up their bottles. Charlie is given the medicine intended for the mule and immediately proceeds to kick and tear around. The mule is given the medicine belonging to Charlie and trots out of the barn. Charlie runs out of the house with his wife after him. The mule runs with his master after him. All four come together at a crossing road and Charlie and the mule go off together. After a while they come to Charlie's home where they enter and upset everything. The owner of the mule at length gets control of his animal. The doctor gives Charlie his own medicine and he is restored to his natural self.
- Mr. Bird leaves his wife to go on a business trip. Her maid also leaves for a short vacation. Mrs. Bird decides to close up house and visit her mother. She writes a note to the milkman and the baker, instructing them not to leave milk or rolls at the house for two days. This note she pins to the door. Her husband suddenly returns home, however, and seeing the note assumes that his wife has gone away. He goes on a foraging expedition for something to eat. Mrs. Bird also decides that her place is in her home and returns unexpectedly. She goes upstairs. She hears a noise and is convinced that a burglar is present. She gets a revolver and goes downstairs. Smith also thinks there is a burglar in the house. Then ensues a series of maneuvers that finally results in each gaining the street, the wife first, and getting the services of a minion of the law. Each returns with a minion, but hubby returns with his protection first. The cop comes upon hubby and a terrific battle ensues. Mrs. Bird finally comes to her spouse's rescue. The officer leaves the couple to console each other as best they can.
- Bob and Kate go out for a day's sport in the woods. Kate wanders away from Bob, and meets White Fawn, an Indian girl. Kate thinking to play a joke on Bob, proposes an exchange of clothes with White Fawn, and White Fawn being willing, the change is quickly effected. Bob comes upon Fawn and mistakes her for Kate. She runs away and he follows. He finally catches her and she turns upon him with a knife and chases him up the street. Meanwhile Kate has met Red Deer, Fawn's mate, and he mistakes Kate for Fawn. She also runs away and leads Red Deer merry chase, and he is a very bewildered Indian when he finds his Fawn's clothes adorning the form of a white girl. Finally matters are straightened out to the satisfaction of all and the girls resuming their own raiments prevent farther misunderstandings.
- Mrs. Bumpson finds Mr. Joiner's card of admittance to her husband's lodge and determines to disguise herself and go in his place to find out what keeps her husband away from home two nights every week. Assisted by her Ma, she locks Bumpson in his room and goes to the hall, where she is accepted as the new member and is put through the initiation rough stuff which puts an end to all of her curiosity. In the meantime, Bumpson escapes from his room by a rope of bed sheets and is arrested as a burglar. On her return home, Mrs. B. is arrested for trying to break into her own house. When they meet at court next day and are fined $150 between them for resisting arrest and for parading in men's clothes, Mrs. Bumpson concludes that if her husband can stand two nights each week at lodge he is welcome to it.
- A woman's advice to her lovelorn maid ends up with a speedy proposal of marriage for herself.
- George Jones "touches" his Uncle Josh for a thousand dollar loan, explaining that he is engaged to be married. Uncle comes from Cohoes to meet the girl. George persuades his typist Nellie (who adores him) to pretend to be his intended. Uncle likes Nellie and insists that the young couple marry instantly. George arranges with his friend, Ned, to play a fake parson. Ned meets with a funny accident and uncle secures a real minister. George is caught in his own trap and Nellie wins a husband.
- The Way Up Film Company send their company south to make a picture, "Agnes' Awful Adventure." The actors wait impatiently tor the new camera man, who in reality has gone to sleep on the way. He is discovered by an amateur photographer who takes the camera and his letter of introduction and goes to the studio where the actors anxiously await him. Of course, the amateur turns the camera backward when he should turn it forward, and he feels called upon every now and then to rescue the heroine from the clutches of the villains. When the film has been developed in the north, where it was sent for finishing the officials are called to witness it. The picture is awful, they discover, and with the president's wire to the waiting company in the south the would-be photographer is sent head first out the window.
- Chester and Pearl are sweethearts. Grace and her beau, Belmont call on Pearl while Chester is there. Belmont pays a whole lot of attention to Pearl and makes Chester jealous. After Belmont and Grace leave, they quarrel and Chester leaves angry. They are each on the point of telephoning for the other for forgiveness, but neither will give in. At last Pearl visiting Grace unburdens her story of the quarrel and Grace determines to bring Chester to Pearl. She leaves Belmont with Pearl and leaves for Chester's apartment. Meanwhile Chester has capitulated and called on Pearl's house. The maid informs him she is visiting Grace. He rushes there and seeing Belmont talking to Pearl rushes in. Grace meanwhile has dozed off while waiting for him and she does not see him until he has taken two swords off the wall and left. She follows, Chester goes right back and makes Belmont fight a duel with the swords. Belmont is just about to run his sword through Chester when Pearl hits Belmont over the face with a pillow, ending the duel. Grace returns and orders Pearl and Chester from the house. They both go and upon arriving home renew old friendships and vow never to quarrel again.
- 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.
- Bill is a policeman. His sweetheart meets him every morning just as he starts on duty, and the morning kiss puts him in good humor for the rest of the day. By the roadside the cop finds a bathing suit. He goes in for a swim and is just beginning to enjoy the water when he sees a tramp putting on his uniform. He calls to him threatening to arrest him, but the tramp strolls away swinging the club. The cop comes out of the water and has to put on the tramp's clothing. A chase follows. The cop hails another "arm of the law," who assists him, and after a brief pursuit they "cop" the tramp.
- Jack Dalton and Moses are known as slick professional crooks. They frequent a cabaret in which Lizzie is compelled to dance for her maintenance. Charlie arrives in the "Great City" with his carpet bag. With the idea of being real devilish, he visits the cabaret. He is the source of much amusement to the patrons. When he pays for his unfinished drink, he discloses a bandanna handkerchief in which are rolled a quantity of bills, much to the interest of Dalton and his partner. Dalton, ever scheming, asks Charlie to change a $100 bill. Charlie, believing this to be legitimate, does so. Upon paying for Lizzie's drink he is arrested for handling counterfeit money. During his sojourn in the jail he becomes friendly with his jailer, and in a poker game wins the jailer's watch, his hat, then his coat and finally his freedom. He passes Lizzie's home just as the poor girl is about to be dispossessed. He proposes to her and she readily accepts him. Just as the ceremony is about to be performed Charlie as suddenly called away. Lizzie is heartbroken, but after many amazing incidents, she finds him and they are married.
- Pearl and Chester have been married quite a while and have been happy. One day Pearl receives a letter from her mother that she will stop with them for a few days, as she will visit the city on her lecturing tour on Reform Dress for women. Chester is disconsolate. Mother arrives. She induces Pearl to adopt her style of costume, which consists of a short coat, short trousers, with the legs exposed. Chester pleads with his wife not to wear them, but she refuses. Chester, to get revenge, dresses as a woman. Pearl and her mother go out in the street. They are immediately made the center of a hooting, noisy mob. Mother disdains to notice them, but Pearl unable to stand the humiliation and the taunts runs. Chester meanwhile has taken a stroll and a young flirt attempts to attract his attention. Cheater chastises him, just as Pearl comes running up to where he is, followed by the mob. He takes her home. Mother arrives home and berates Chester for making fun of them. He orders her out of the house. Pearl begs Chester to take off his woman's apparel and she doffs her outlandish costume. She is sorry for the mistake she made in following mother's advice and promises Chester to stick to a more sane manner of dress in the future, leaving Dress Reform to mother and the rest of her club.
- Jack Gray borrows $50 from his friend the doctor. He gives the doctor his I.O.U. On the reverse side of the card is a message to Jack from some chorus girl, asking Jack to meet her at the chorus girls' ball. The doctor's wife, while sewing a button on the doctor's coat, finds the card and thinks it is meant for her husband. She determines to disguise herself as a chorus girl and meet her husband herself. This she does, but on her way to the ball her auto runs into a post and she is rendered unconscious. Jack sees the accident and he carries her into his house. She revives and he induces her to take a few drinks. Meanwhile Jack telephones his friend the doctor to call at once, believing her seriously injured. When the doctor calls he finds his supposed patient doing a bear dance with Jack. He recognizes his wife in the chorus girl, and proceeds to give Jack a very artistic beating. His wife, having gone home, awaits his return, showing him the card as the reason for her actions. He shows her the reverse side of the card, with Jack's I.O.U., and serious complications are thus averted.
- 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.
- Davy Crockett is madly in love with a blonde young lady who also looks good to several members of a ferocious band of Indians that inhabit the backwoods. After a meeting with Davy one day, she is surprised and kissed by one of her red-skinned lovers, which makes her so indignant that she stops to thrash him and is captured by the band and scalped. Losing her fore lock does not seriously injure her health. She escapes to her Davy, and is taken to the hut of his parents and introduced as his future wife. A battle with the Indians follows, in which an intelligent redskin or two secures entrance into the cabin. The lives of all concerned are saved by a bunch of hardtack biscuits aimed at the Indians heads. Wedding bells ring merrily for Davy and the blonde heroine when the scene becomes calm enough to admit a minister.
- Harry calls on his sweetheart, and unsolicited Lillie proceeds to entertain him by singing and playing the piano. This is disconcerting to Harry and he persuades her to accompany him to the home of their friends, Mae and Joe. Joe and Lillie show a more than passing interest in each other, and Joe schemes to put one over by taking her to a masquerade. Harry learns of this and hurries to the hall with Mae on his arm. He recognizes Joe in the guise of a convict. A fight follows and Joe makes his way through the crowd and runs down the street with Harry at his heels. In the meantime a real convict has escaped and is being followed by the guards. A lively chase follows in which the real convict finds Harry overcome by exhaustion and changes clothing with him. Later, he knocks down a policeman and repeats the performance. Tradesmen, women and children, who are following, land in a heap before matters are finally straightened out and Harry and Joe are carried to a nearby doctor. Well bandaged they return to their loves, but are handed the cold shoulder so they proceed to drown their sorrows together in a way which assures many a laugh to the audience.
- Charlie and Joe meet. Charlie sees Vivian on another corner and immediately leaves Joe without even an apology. Joe sees Vivian and decides he would like to be one of her acquaintances, so he goes over to Charlie, who of course has to give him an introduction to Vivian much to his sorrow. Charlie is then pushed into the background and Joe has the "floor," for Vivian gives Charlie all of her attention. After Joe leaves, Charlie meets his handsome friend Ned, and is forced to introduce him to Vivian. Charlie is again considered a "back number," and, though he tries innumerable times to talk to Vivian, it is all in vain. They arrive at Vivian's home and, not being invited to stay in the parlor with Ned and Vivian, Charlie goes in search of the maid. He compels her to write two letters, one to Joe and the other to Ned, stating that Vivian will meet them at a certain part of the park at three o'clock. The boys get the note and start out for the trysting place. Meanwhile Vivian and Charlie go off for a picnic. All goes well until the two boys discover that they are both waiting for Vivian and that a joke has been played on them. They go in search of Charlie and when they find him comedy situations develop in rapid succession.
- Alice is left an orphan. She is sent to George and his mother as their ward. She lives there and helps George prepare sermons, George being a minister. An attachment springs up between the two but George allows his sentiments to ripen into love, while Alice looks upon him as her friend and mentor. She goes away to boarding school. There, after a course of study, she meets Richard Wilson, her history professor. They are thrown together constantly and learn to love each other. At the summer vacation, he visits her. George was preparing to tell her of his love, when Richard arrives and he sees the two in each other's arms. Realizing how happy the pair were, and seeing in Richard a worthy fellow, George buries his love and marries the pair.
- Vivian has two admirers, Charlie and Dave. On her birthday they decide to bring her some flowers. Charlie's chum takes the flowers out of the box and substitutes a set of boxing gloves. Charlie takes the box to Vivian, and leaves it on the table. Dave's box of flowers is like Charlie's. When Vivian comes in, she opens them, and finds the boxing gloves. The men accuse each other. Joe, a third admirer of Vivian's, suggests that they have it out by putting on the gloves. This is agreed upon. Dave and Charlie battle with each other, nearly wrecking the house. They fight themselves out of a window and on to the street, where they mix up with two minions of the law and are finally arrested. When they get out of jail they again seek Vivian, but find that Joe has captured her. They decide that they are better boxers than lovers.
- 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.
- Chester Barnett and Joe Belmont are two college chums. Chester invites Pearl to go with him to the concert of the Glee Club, to be held Saturday afternoon. Charlotte, who is Joe's girl, receives the same invitation from Joe. Saturday the girls are all dressed and await their respective sweethearts. Chester meets Joe on the street and Joe suggests a ball game as the proper place to go to while away the time until their appointment with the girls. They go and become so interested in the game, which is exciting, that they forget all about the girls. Meanwhile the girls await them, waxing angrier every minute. Late that afternoon the boys visit their girls and each is accorded a very warm reception and is shown the door. They meet and tell each other of their misfortune. Joe lights upon a scheme. He telephones Pearl that Chester has been run over by an automobile and is badly hurt. Pearl buys some flowers and visits Chester, whom she finds in bed, with a leg greatly bandaged and with Joe attending him. Chester telephones Charlotte the next day that Joe has met with an accident and that he is stopping at his house. Charlotte buys a large basket of fruit and calls on her beau. She finds him in mortal pain, and makes up with him. After she leaves the boys dance around and sing. Pearl arrives and meets Charlotte as she is leaving. They return and find the boys in the midst of their revelry. Their villainy being exposed the girls leave them and refuse to talk to them anymore, going home to sympathize with each other as best they can and leaving the boys in more of a dilemma than before.
- Vivian has three admirers. Don proposes to her. She tells him that she would never marry a bald man. He decides to get a toupee. Charlie and Joe each have toupees but Vivian's kid brother manages to expose them in all their baldness when they propose. She informs them, individually that she would never marry a bald man. She gives up all hope of ever getting a fellow who has some hair. Charlie and Joe go out in the woods and decide to kill themselves. A fight results. They finally come back to Vivian equipped with toupees, thinking that they would get away with it, but find Vivian has already transferred her affections to a man whose head is covered.
- Barnett and Belmont make a date to play poker that night. Knowing that it will be impossible to get away from his wife, Barnett has Belmont send him a telegram that his wealthy old Aunt Emma is dangerously ill and about to die, and asking him to come and see her. Belmont sends the telegram. Barnett goes home and Pearl, having bought tickets for the theatre, wants him to take her, as planned. He pleads a headache, and they call it off. She makes him go to bed. He goes, expecting every minute to get the telegram. Meanwhile the messenger boy meets another who invites him to a moving picture show. They go, the first youngster forgetting all about the message. Later, after the show, he remembers the telegram and delivers it. Barnett meanwhile had fallen asleep and when Pearl wakes him up he pretends that he does not want to go. She compels him to. He arrives at the poker game just as it is breaking up in a row, and all the men are thrown out into the street. There they fight and are arrested. Barnett is lodged in a cell, with the rest. The next morning Aunt Emma, who suddenly decided to pay her nephew and niece a visit, arrives at the house, and Pearl inquires of her health. She shows her the telegram. Barnett arrives home, much the worse for wear, and Pearl asks him how he left his aunt. He tells her in a bad way, but the old lady confronts him and roundly berates him for his perfidy. She leaves, threatening to cut him off in her will, while Pearl sympathizes with him upon his promise to be good.
- 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.
- Robbins, a criminal who lives by forging checks, has as a wife. Pearl, a good woman, who, while lamenting his unworthy and nefarious occupation, tries to be a good wife to him. He is arrested and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary at hard labor. She is compelled to seek work and takes a position with a wealthy doctor as governess to his orphaned child. Robbins, in jail, formulates a plan to escape, and writes a letter to his wife at their old address, asking her to meet him at a certain place. This he gives to a fellow-convict to mail for him. They try their plan and get away from the prison. The keepers chase them, and fire on them, wounding Robbins and killing his comrade, on whom is found the letter. The following morning the newspapers publishes a story to the effect that Bobbins was killed, and quoting the letter as authority and a means of identification. Pearl believes that her husband is dead. An attachment springs up between the doctor and Pearl, and when he proposes marriage to her and asks her to become a mother to his child, she accepts and they are married. Later Robbins, who escaped and recovered from his wound, chances to see Pearl and the child. He follows her, and finding out where she lives, calls there the next day. He extorts money from her under threats. The next day he again calls and asks Pearl for more money. Pearl refuses and Bobbins proceeds to choke her. The child sees him and runs and tells her father that a burglar is killing her mother. The doctor gets his revolver and enters the room and stops Robbins from killing Pearl. The two men struggle and by accident the gun is discharged, inflicting a wound on Robbins that proves fatal. The doctor still believes that Robbins is a burglar, until Pearl shows him the clipping from the newspaper, and telling the doctor that she believed him dead from the newspaper report. The doctor takes her in his arms and offers prayers of thanks for his timely entrance and the fortunate death of the unworthy forger.
- Balsam, a gay widower, courts the Widow Snow. She promises to marry him, provided he will always love her and her "little darling," at present at school. They are married. Balsam never suspecting that "little darling" was a cherub weighing two hundred pounds. Later, after the child, so-called, insisted on calling Balsam Papa and sitting on his lap, she is sent back to boarding school. Her mother dies, and Balsam, after the period of mourning is over, decides to take unto himself another wife. He courts the pretty Myrtle Minx, and his suit is successful. They are married. Balsam, of course, neglecting to mention "little darling." Unexpectedly, she pays her father a visit, just as Myrtle's father is visiting them. Balsam is in a quandary. He hides the cherub in another room and she falls asleep. Myrtle insists that she hears a noise in the other room, it being the snoring of the big girl, but Balsam lies out of it. The deception is continued for a while until Myrtle's pet dog jumps on the cherub's shoulder, causing her to awaken and let out a horrifying scream. She, of course, is discovered and Myrtle insists that the woman is not Balsam's aunt, as he lyingly contends. She rushes from the room, and Balsam follows her. Myrtle's father stays with "little darling" and they fall in love. They go away and get married. Returning, they inform the still fighting couple of what has happened, and when "little darling" informs Myrtle that she is her step-mother, as well as her step-daughter, all are in a state of collapse.