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- Colonel Boom has valuable fortification plans locked in his desk. Two spies are trying to lay hands on the papers. The spies overhear Fay, Boom's stenographer, rejoicing in the fact that the millionaire aunt has just died, leaving her a fortune, and that now she is free to give up her job and marry Ed, the bookkeeper. Lieutenant Schnide, one of the conspirators, determines to win the heiress for himself. He puts over a game on Ed, which causes Fay to break their engagement. Then he and his pal go after the plans. They are discovered, however, by Bobby, the office boy, who notifies Colonel Boom. The villains are arrested. Fay learns of Schnide's perfidy, and she and Ed are reconciled.
- Fay disobeys her father, the deacon, and runs off with Edward to go in bathing. Father, sitting on the beach with his wife, is informed of Fay's actions by Steve, the suitor of his own preference. The deacon starts to find Edward. The latter, warned of his coming, changes the signs on the outside of the bath houses. The deacon gets into the women's corridor. Seeing a door ajar, he peers in. Instantly the door is slammed and he is caught fast by the whiskers. Here his wife discovers him in a compromising position. Meanwhile, Fay and Edward have captured the minister and gone out on a raft. Steve again rushes to inform his would-be father-in-law, but the deacon and his party are too late to stop the ceremony.
- Ed, in his eagerness to rescue Fay from her papa and show her the sights at the beach, persuades that young lady to come out of the sand, where she has petulantly buried herself, and let him substitute for her a pair of wooden legs wearing stockings exactly like Fay's. Papa is duped by the shocking stockings, and Fay and Ed escape. They start off in the Ferris wheel, but are frustrated in their joy by Chester, the villain, who carries off Fay and sets out to sea with her in a rowboat. The Ferris wheel is stuck in midair. Ed, frantic, leaps out of the wheel into the ocean, rescues Fay, and wins the everlasting gratitude of papa.
- Archibald's wife, Frances, has acquired the club habit. She neglects to take him to the theater, and he must pass the lonely evenings tending their infant. Fay, the chauffeur, out of pity for the slighted husband, falls in love with him and begs him to elope with her. His duty to the baby, however, constrains him to decline. Fay makes up her mind to win Archibald at any cost. She kidnaps him in the auto. The wife at the club hears what has happened and rushes to the rescue. Fay's machine breaks down. Archibald escapes and flings himself into the sea. The wife swims out and saves him. Realizing that he has been faithful to her, even to the point of risking his life, Frances reassures her spouse that she will show him more affection in the future.
- Casey, the policeman, has everybody bluffed except his wife, who rules the house and lords it over Casey. Pedro runs a fruit stand on Casey's beat, and Nina, sweetheart of the former also sells fruit. Casey eats Pedro's fruit and refuses to pay. Then he starts a flirtation with Nina, who likes it. Pedro, who is a member of the Black Hand, determines to be revenged. He sends Casey a note, demanding $500, or the Black Hand will take his life. Casey sees in this a good chance to get rid of his better half. He changes the world "life" to "wife," and shows her the letter, telling her that she would better disguise herself and keep out of sight Then he returns to Nina and continues his love-making. Pedro, enraged, captures Casey and locks him up in an old mill. But Nina runs to the police and offers to lead them to the rescue. The wife, missing Casey, also appeals to the police and is invited to go along. When Nina sees his wife rush into Casey's arms she is with difficulty restrained from attacking him. Mrs. Casey learns the truth about the Black Hand note. Her spouse is stripped of his uniform and dragged home to punishment.
- Jake, rival for the hand of Fay, gets Ed, her accepted lover, into trouble with Fay's papa. Ed is warned not to dare visit Fay. A clothesline runs from Ed's window in the house next door over to Fay's window, and the resourceful Ed, by means of a pulley, contrives to waft himself across and meet his sweetheart in secret. Jake, however, soon is "on" to this. He changes the end of the line from Fay's window to papa's, and when Ed makes a second flight he finds himself mixed up with her stern parent. Not satisfied even with this, Jake monkeys with the other end of the line. Traveling back to his boarding house, Ed lands in the room of a spinster, Fay's schoolteacher, and there is discovered by Fay herself, supporting the fainting lady in his arms. Fay refuses to be consoled, and leaves in a huff. Ed hunts down Jake and sends him off on the clothesline for a little of his own medicine. Angry papa, at his window, unconsciously clutching the clothesline, also is jerked into mid-air by the clever Ed. Ed runs off with Fay to the minister, and papa and Jake are left dangling on the clothesline.
- Henry has a terrible temper and is a perpetual grouch. One day Henry's wife buys a little dog for a companion, but she is afraid to let Henry know of her purchase for fear he will kick the dog out. So. whenever Henry comes home, she hides the dog. One day Henry comes home earlier than usual. He stops outside his parlor door and listens, for he hears his wife talking "baby-talk" to someone inside. Of course Henry thinks that she is talking to a man. He bursts the door in, but his wife has time to put the dog out the window before he can see it. Henry accuses her of unfaithfulness but she swears on the Bible that she has had no one with her. Arguing the matter, they both walk out of the parlor. Now Henry's wife's dog is quite a connoisseur and collector of hats. When his mistress puts him out of the window he runs down the street, steals the hat of a neighbor gentleman named Murphy, runs back home, jumps in the window and deposits the hat on the middle of the rug in the parlor. Then he jumps out the window again. Presently Henry and his wife come back to the parlor, still arguing. The first thing that Henry sees is Murphy's hat. Grabbing his hat he starts out after Murphy. Henry goes to Murphy and asks him in a gentle manner if that is his hat. Murphy says yes. Henry jumps on his neck and licks him. Then, his honor vindicated. Henry starts for home. But Henry's wife's dog has not been idle in the meantime and when Henry arrives home he goes into the parlor and finds a couple more hats on the rug. Henry is exhausted but his fighting blood is up. He grabs the hats of his other two rivals and starts out looking for their owners. He finds the two of them, and as they are neither very big, he licks both of them at once. Then Henry starts home once more. In the meantime Henry's wife's dog has found a harvest of hats in the ante-room of the police station and when Henry gets back home this time he finds the parlor full of policemen's hats and thinks that his wife has been receiving the whole force, Henry gets a bomb and starts for the police station. The police are quietly playing Pinochle. Henry blows up the station, entirely ruining the game. Then Henry starts to run home and kill his guilty wife while the police pull themselves together and start after him. Henry breaks into the parlor and finds a stack of hats there that nearly reaches to the ceiling. He hunts up his wife, drags her into the parlor by her hair and tells her to prepare to die. He grabs out a knife and starts to sharpen it on his shoe. Every now and then he grabs a hair out of his wife's head and cuts it with the knife to see if it is sharp enough. All this time the police are on their way. Just as Henry is ready to do the foul deed the police break in and take him into custody. At this moment the dog runs in with another hat and Henry is led away by the police.
- The office is being picketed by a small mob calling themselves the WWW (We Won't Work)who are wobbly-like anarchists. When Bill the office boy is asked by phone to get some money out of the safe to bail out his boss, he forgets the combination, and has one of the radicals help him dynamite the safe open.
- Bill's boss decides to give Ethel a vacation. To show his appreciation for her faithful attention to business he stakes her to forty "megs." Ethel immediately starts off with the forty to show Newport what life really is. She is not long winning a millionaire widower, who quickly proposes; she accepts and goes forth to wire the boss, Hadley, that she is tired of his dictation and henceforth will have no more of it. Hadley becomes frantic on receiving the message and hustles Bill off to locate Ethel and bring her back. Bill locates her just as she is about to dine and he, feeling the pangs of hunger creeping over him. decides to butt in on the big feed. Alas, Bill "spills the beans" as usual; the millionaire decides that Ethel is not the one to choose for a life partner. He excuses himself for a few moments and decides not to return. The waiter must have his check, and Bill, being broke, the big haul comes on Ethel, who has to separate herself from thirty-eight of the big forty. After paying the check she decides that Bill and the office are more attractive to her than Newport and the "Four Hundred."
- Grey, a very much henpecked husband, has an engagement with his friend Batch, and two girls. Everything seems to conspire against him to keep him from going to meet them. He feigns illness and is immediately almost smothered in blankets. His wife sends for a doctor, who knowing what his illness is, prescribes that he be kept in bed, Mrs. Grey goes to the door with the doctor, and Grey, seeing his chance, jumps from' the window. As he nears the café he sees Batch and the girls coming out. His wife, who has discovered his flight, appears on the scene. He gets an inspiration and falls to the ground, feigning insanity. His wife has started to berate his companions, but is overcome with pity for her spouse and all is forgiven.
- Gillespie, a multi-millionaire, has Harry Gregg, a penniless young painter, come to his home to do a portrait of his daughter, Maisie. The result is that Maisie and the painter fell in love. Harry bravely asks the father for her hand and old Gillespie promptly orders him out of the house forever. Harry goes home and decides to auction off his studio effects and pictures and leave the city. That night two thieves break into the millionaire's home and steal the Gillespie diamond necklace, a very valuable heirloom. The alarm is given and one of the thieves, thinking he is to be caught, slips the necklace between the frame and canvas of Maisie's portrait. Both thieves, however, escape. The next morning Gillespie, in an extra fit of anger over his misfortunes, orders Masie's picture to be returned to Gregg at once. Confederates of the thieves see the removal of the picture to Harry's studio. The two thieves have had a fight over the affair and each one sets out separately to the studio to get the picture. When they arrive the auction is on and poor Harry's first picture has just been knocked down for one dollar and ninety cents. Harry has left the room in despair. The auctioneer next puts up Maisie's portrait and the two thieves begin to bid against each other. When the bidding reaches four and five hundred dollars the public present begins to sit up and take notice. Bidding becomes general and soon the room is crowded to the doors with people wildly bidding for the picture. The portrait is knocked down to one of the thieves. Harry comes in and finds out that Maisie's portrait has been sold. He tells the auctioneer that it was not for sale and starts out after the purchaser. Meanwhile the high bidding started by the two thieves has "caught on" and people are wildly bidding on the next picture. Harry meets the thief in the hall and asks for the picture to be returned, saying that its sale was a mistake. The thief argues a moment, then seeing that Harry is deadly in earnest, he starts to run. Harry runs after him. They grapple over the picture. A fight ensues. The other thief, angry at his accomplice for getting away with the picture, telephones Gillespie that the necklace was in his daughter's portrait. Gillespie and Maisie get in an automobile and start for the studio. They arrive in an awful jam of people. Gillespie makes his way to the auctioneer and learns that the picture has been sold. He tells Maisie, adding that that is the kind of a lover he was, selling her portrait to the first buyer. Maisie is heartbroken. Just then a shot is heard. Everyone runs out. They find Harry lying in a pool of blood in the basement, but with Maisie's portrait in his arms. Explanations are made, the necklace is recovered, and Gillespie and Maisie help Harry to his feet. Just then the auctioneer comes up with a hat full of money received from the auction, which, except for the thieves, would have been a dismal failure. The money has a proper effect on father's feelings, and he gives Maisie and Harry his blessing.
- Fred is an attorney for a patent derrick or windlass concern. One day while demonstrating the windlass, the hook catches on the dress of a woman and lifts her several feet from the sidewalk, exposing a few inches of stockings. The woman is a spinster and the thought that she has been placed in an unladylike attitude is terrible to her. The women in the anti-cigarette league, of which she is president sympathize with her in her grief, and then suddenly thinking that she did it on purpose, just to be cute, they severely criticize her. The woman had previously shown them a present of some silk hose and they felt that she permitted herself to be caught, simply to show her silk stockings. She files a claim against Fred's company and becomes a regular pest at his office. Fred has a pretty wife. One morning she burns the biscuits. Fred becomes sore and leaves the house in a huff, banging the biscuits against the wall. At the office he repents, while his wife sits at home crying. He writes two letters, one a formal, curt business note to the spinster lady, advising her that he will settle all claims against him for $5O0, and for her to reply by mail without trying to seek an interview. The other letter is a tender-worded, sentimental missive to his wife, containing love messages, and inviting her out to lunch. The office boy gets his dates mixed and places the letters in the wrong envelopes, with the result that the sorrowful wife gets the formal business note while the spinster lady receives the tender love missive. Both have hysterics when the letters are received. The spinster lady in a rage consults the members of the anti-cigarette league, but they turn her down cold with the statement that no man would write such a letter unless he had received plenty of encouragement from the woman to do so. The spinster lady then calls to her assistance her brother, who is a professional bruiser and starts for Fred's office. Fred's wife considers suicide. She starts to die via the gas route but the smells sickens her. She starts to take poison but the taste is too disgusting. She tries to shoot herself but don't have strength enough to pull the trigger. She phones for mamma and they start for Fred's office. The spinster lady with her letter arrives at the office and proceeds to clean up on Fred. Fred's wife and her mother are the next to arrive. They see the spinster lady beating up Fred and figure that he has been untrue and is getting beaten up by a woman whom he has fooled. They get in and also start to clean up on Fred. He got his but finally manages to get the letters of the two women exchanged and everybody is happy. Fred then fires his cigarette-smoking, novel-reading messenger boy.
- Ralph Coises, a stage villain, sees Moitle Perry and falls in love with her. Percy Basker, a dude farmhand, is her accepted lover and they are to be married as soon as she has enough money saved up. Ralph pays court to Moitle, but she repulses him. He swears revenge, and prepares to act like a typical villain, but finds that Percy has stolen his cigarettes in order to foil him. Ralph is balked and forswears his revenge until he can get a cigarette. But Percy's father, the constable, prohibits the sale of these articles, and Ralph has to go to another town to get them. Returning Percy foils him again by doping him and shaving his curling black moustaches, without which he cannot work at the trade of villain. Waiting until they are grown again, he seizes the scornful Moitle and ties her to the railroad track. Days pass, but no train comes. Then he learns from a native that "there hain't been a train on this line for more'n five years." As his next play he puts the poor girl in an abandoned cistern and leaves her to her fate. As the water rises higher and higher, Moitle keeps herself from drowning by drinking the water as fast as it comes in. Later Ralph seeks to blow her up, but having no match to light the fuse, borrows one from the unsuspicious Percy. Just at the psychological moment, however, he receives word from the Villains' Union that they had made a mistake and sent him after the wrong girl; Moitle hasn't a cent. So it's all off.
- Bunko Bill, a famous crook, gets a job at a country house as a gardener in order to rob the place. It is the home of the Commissioner of Police, and his niece is in love with a young man who is staying there. But she refuses to marry him unless he commits some deed of daring, such as catching a burglar red-handed, or something of that sort. So Harris, the aforesaid young man, cooks up a scheme with what he thinks is the gardener, alias Bunko Bill. It is that the gardener shall burglarize the house and allow Harris to catch him and turn him over, apparently to the police. He will then contrive to let him escape, etc. Bunko Bill steals the silverware one night beforehand, and Harris catches him. Though Bill is not very well pleased and while they are talking Mrs. Commissioner, a stern and husky female, holds them both up at the point of a gun and demands to know what is what. Harris is afraid to let her know of their scheme and Mrs. Commissioner has Bunko Bill arrested, and Harris also. Bunko Bill is recognized and arrested by the Commissioner and fearful of the Commissioner knowing that she was so careless as to be duped into hiring him, Bunko Bill, she allows Harris to pose as a real hero and he gets the girl.
- Fay, a young lady of modern inclinations, is rapidly becoming successful as a lawyer. She is in love with young Archibald, whose stern momma is strongly opposed to the match. Momma demands that Archibald marry Frances, a wealthy female bond holder who holds a mortgage on Momma's house and being of a villainous nature, she has demanded that Momma give her Archibald's hand in marriage or she will foreclose said mortgage. Momma has consented to this and preparations are made for the wedding. Archibald is frantic. He sends a hasty message to Fay, who rushes in her machine to Archibald's home just before the ceremony. Archibald is let down from his window by a ladder and he and Fay escape. Momma and Frances discover the elopement and jump into a powerful touring car and give chase. An accident happens to Fay's machine; it rolls off the road and dashes down the hill. The accident proves a Godsend to the true lovers because the runaway machine comes to a full stop in front of the minister's house. The pursuing car has had to follow around the road and arrives too late: Fay and Archibald are married.
- Mr. Fliver deserts his wife in the park and flirts with Fay. Fay thinks him rather fresh and calls Maloney of the motorcycle squad to send Mr. Fliver about his business. Maloney's services are hardly needed, because Mrs. Fliver arrives on the spot and leads her fickle husband off by the ear. Maloney is very attentive to Fay and escorts her home. Fay's papa doesn't like the idea of Maloney paying attention to his daughter, so he roughly orders him to beat it. Fay manages to slip a note to Maloney, which hints that he must call again. That night Fay's papa and mama order Fay to bed and then set out in their auto for a picture show. Shifty Sadie, a notorious thief, sees the auto in front of the picture theater. She gets in and rides away with it. Maloney, always on the job, sees her and sets out in pursuit. Sadie sees Fay's home darkened and quiet and decides to do a little second story work. She leaves the stolen auto and enters the house. Maloney sees her and follows. Fay sees Sadie with drawn revolver in the hall. She is frightened to death, and clad in pajamas, gets out of the window, runs to the front of the house, gets into the auto and sets out to find a cop. Sadie is frightened out of the house by Maloney. She misses the auto, but manages to get away on Maloney's motorcycle. Maloney gets another motorcycle from a fellow officer and goes after Sadie. Fay's auto breaks down. She dreads being seen in her pajamas. Someone approaches. Fay ducks into the first house she sees. It happens to be the home of Mr. Fliver. She hides under the bed in Mr. Fliver's room. Sadie gives Maloney the slip, and ducks into a convenient cellar door. Fay finds herself in a tight fix when Mr. Fliver enters his room, soon followed by Mrs. Fliver, who finds Fay under the bed. In the excitement Fay manages to get into the hall, where she barely escapes bumping into Maloney, who is still hot on the trail of Sadie. Maloney arrives, still tracing Sadie. They round up the thief in the basement. Maloney exonerates Fay to Mrs. Fliver, and takes her home in the machine. And Papa and Mama are so glad to have their auto and their daughter again that they receive Maloney into the family.
- All the boys in Hickville are rivals for the hand of Rosie Green, the village belle. Among them are Sam, who is a good boy, and Walter, who is a villain. One day Rosie sends out invitations for a big party. The night of the party Walter starts downtown, stopping often on the way to show off his clothes. As he passes the express office he sees Sam emerge with a big box under his arm. Walter becomes suspicious. He shadows Sam home, peeks over the transom and sees Sam putting on one of them city dress suits. Sam, leaving the coat and vest on a chair, goes into the next room. Walter gets a can of giant powder, comes back, steals into Sam's room and fills his coat and vest full of the powder, putting it in all the pockets and sprinkling it between the cloth and the lining. But he has a witness in the servant girl, who is peeking in a window. At the party Sam is the favored suitor. While Sam and Rosie are busy chatting together the servant girl slips into the party, thrusts a note into Sam's hand and disappears. Sam opens it and reads, "Don't move, don't laugh, don't bump into anybody; your clothes are full of dynamite. A friend." The horrible truth steals over Sam. He gingerly starts for the door when Rosie sees him going and playfully jerks him back into the house. The playful jerk nearly gives Sam heart failure. He and Rosie carefully sit down in a corner. Every now and then Rosie gives him a playful tap with her fan. Sam nearly faints every time. Walter looks on the scene gloating. Sam sees that there is bound to be an explosion, so it may as well be Walter. The giant powder goes off. Sam and Walter land in a nearby alley. Everybody rushes to the scene. Explanations are made. Rosie takes Sam in her arms and Walter is justly scorned by all.
- Vic, the cartoonist on the Daily Blizzard, has a hard time winning the hand of Margy on account of a grouchy papa and a husky rival. Vic stands no chance against this rival with his fistic accomplishments. Dropping into the newspaper office, much discouraged, Vic gets another jolt when the editor tells him that his cartoons are punk, and fires him. Home in his room Vic looks with disgust at a drawing of the characters in his cartoon. Flooey and Axel he calls them. He has been unsuccessful in holding his job. Vic goes to bed with the blues. He dreams that the cartoons, Flooey and Axel, come to life. They are very friendly. They show him how to bluff the editor into giving him his job back. Next they teach him the methods of a bold lover and thus enable him to win the hand of Margy. They instruct him in a few tricks of boxing and Vic has the satisfaction of beating up his husky rival. This is in his dreams. Upon waking up, Vic resolves to take the hints suggested by Flooey and Axel in his dream. He is greatly disappointed, however, and gets a bad beating from both the editor and the pugilistic lover.
- Ethel's sweetheart makes her a present of a large bottle of perfume. Bill and Izzy hit upon the brilliant scheme of filling empty bottles and selling them for spring water. But when they turn the faucet they discover that the odor is not precisely what might be expected from nature's crystal wells, so they steal Ethel's perfume and doctor their bum goods. It chances that another office holder, who has bought water from Bill and Izzy spills some on his coat. His wife notices the odor, and becoming suspicious, she traces it to Ethel. Ethel does a little detective work, and the two office boys are caught in the act. But his latest venture costs Bill his job.
- Bill the office boy wants the boss to get an electric fan so he warms the thermometer up, and makes him think it is very warm. The fan is brought and put in Bill's room by mistake. Jimmy, the electrician, teaches Bill how to gamble with the fan by numbering the blades. The idea works out well, though there is going on in the Boss' office a conference between Trust Magnates, and the Boss would like to know why the fan hasn't arrived. Various other office boys join the little game outside, for nickels, and one loses under what he thinks is fraud. So he goes downstairs and complains to a policeman, who comes upstairs to raid the game. In the meantime, it has ended in so loud an argument that the Boss has come out and found the fan, and taken it into his private office. There the Magnates see the numbers on the blades and Bill is sent for to explain them. He does so, and the Magnates get interested and open a game themselves, to Hadley's disgust, he wanting them to attend to business. At the thick of their game, when they, like the office boys, begin quarreling, the policeman breaks in and comes near arresting them, being persuaded not to only by Hadley's entreaties and something else. The policeman goes out, mollified, and Bill is made to clean the numbers off the fan, after which business is resumed, and Bill is sent out, to count up his earnings.
- Fay, owing to her unattractiveness, fail to win the boys. Seeing the success with which her sister breaks hearts, she becomes morose and despondent. Later, at school, she makes a confidant of the teacher of physical culture, who takes a personal interest in Fay. and tells her of her unrequited love. The teacher assures Fay that if she will promise to follow her instructions things will be different and her happiness will be complete. Fay starts in to win her goal, and after much patience and perseverance, during which many funny complications arise, she accomplishes her purpose and has the satisfaction of turning the tables on those who at first would have nothing to do with her.
- Spotty Jones abuses his wife, and she determines to be revenged. She calls her mother to her aid. Jones, apprised of her coming, changes nameplates in the hall, and when the mother-in-law arrives she goes to the wrong apartment. Never having seen her son-in-law, she opens hostilities on the occupant of the apartment, the henpecked Mr. Hicks. Mrs. Hicks, returning unexpectedly home, finds a strange woman beating her husband. Mrs. Hicks is busy lambasting the intruder when the father-in-law bursts open the door and sees Mrs. Hicks beating his wife. Jones tries to square things, but his explanations don't clear him. and the film ends with Jones attacked from all sides.
- Fay is employed in a dry-goods store and engaged to young sculptor Roderick. Boulter, the store floorwalker, is determined to break the engagement and win Fay for himself. Fay is indifferent to Boulter's threat that he will cause her to lose her job. She should worry; Roderick will protect her. On a certain occasion, Fay's trust in her dear Roderick is shaken when she sees him in the park giving his attention to a young girl named Margy. Boulter consoles Fay and she, anxious to get even with Roderick, pretends to be sweet on Boulter. To her disappointment, Roderick does not see the pretended flirtation. Fay is angry and when Boulter gets too fresh. Fay slaps his face. Her job is now not worth a cent. Boulter only awaits an opportunity to "get something on her." Roderick gets a note from Fay telling him it is all off. Fay refuses to see him. Margy does some shopping at the store. A shoplifter is watching an opportunity at Fay's counter. Fay is attending to Margy. Margy lays down a $10 bill to pay for a pair of stockings. The shoplifter gets the ten and puts it in a stocking, one of a cheap pair, and gets the boy at the wrapping desk to tie them up. Margy misses her $10. A dispute follows. In the excitement the shoplifter leaves with Margy's bundle of silk hose and Margy, after getting her change from the angry proprietor, leaves with the package of cheap hose, which also contains her $10. It happens that the boy at the wrapping desk forgot to break the string on the package Margy is carrying. The string unwinds for several blocks, until Fay sees it. Margy has set her package down for a moment. Fay starts to pull the string back. Margy chases after her package. Things look bad for Fay. The proprietor has told her that she must replace the ten dollars or be discharged. Fay continues to pull the string and Margy loses track of her bundle. A fat man steps on the string and breaks it. Roderick, on the way home, finds the package. He takes it to his room. Fay is discharged after refusing the aid of Boulter, who offers to make good the $10. She goes to Roderick to give him back his ring. Margy has gone to Roderick's room to tell him about her loss. Roderick opens the package he has found. Margy is satisfied that they are her stockings. Fay arrives in time to see Margy, Roderick and stockings. She returns the ring. Fay's troubles are cleared up when Roderick tells Fay that Margy is his cousin. They find the $10 in one of the stockings.
- Nell and Ben are happily betrothed until the advent of Austin Force. Austin's flashing black eyes and silky jet mustache cause Nell to throw over Ben and promise to marry her new admirer the following afternoon. Nell's Aunt Ellen goes to the jeweler's and buys a beautiful necklace for the bride-to-be. Austin spies her. As the mysterious bridegroom's vocation is taking other people's things, and as he is ignorant of Aunt Ellen's identity, he shadows her home and resolves to pay her a midnight call. Austin enters the house and secures the necklace. Nell, who is spending the night with her aunt, surprises him, however. As it is dark, they fail to recognize each other. Austin is obliged to slap Nell's face in order to make his getaway. The following day Austin gives the necklace to Nell's father with instructions that it shall not be presented to the bride until time for the ceremony. Nell appears with the fingerprints still on her face. Austin realizes that if the aunt identifies the necklace it will go hard with him. He tries many ruses to recover the gems before her arrival, and to prevail upon Nell to wash her face. Ben's suspicions are aroused. He does a little detective work, the guilty Austin is exposed, and Nell takes refuge in Ben's arms.
- Henry is a high-class crook. He will stop at nothing. One day, walking through the park, he sees a newsboy. He knocks the boy down, confiscates his papers, and sits down on a bench to read. Presently, the following meets his eye: "Heiress Is Willed Another Fortune. Ethel Van Rocks to Get $1,000,000 the Day She Chooses Husband." This is right in Henry's line, and he swears that Ethel Van Rocks shall be his. He steals a bouquet and starts for the heiress' mansion, where he is shown into the parlor and told to wait. When Miss Van Rocks makes her appearance, Henry suffers a shock. She is carried in the arms of her maid, and she is just eighteen months old. Nothing daunted, however, Henry fells the maid and escapes with Ethel. Disguising her in a long linen duster, a hat and a veil, he starts for the house of a minister of his acquaintance who is deaf and almost blind. The police, however, are now on the tracks of the kidnapper. Ethel drops her rattle, by which she is traced to the parsonage. There she is rescued and Henry is hauled off to jail.
- When the owner of the lunch counter that he frequents raises prices, Bill enlists his friends to open a lunch business of his own.
- Mrs. Climber is giving a reception in honor of the Countess de Shilac, and Ethel is honored with an invitation. The Countess de Shilac is forced to send her regrets by a messenger, and by chance, a society crook intercepts the messenger and plans to have his adventuress wife go to the reception and pose as the countess. He then sends the boy on with the message. Mrs. Climber is deeply disappointed when she learns that the Countess will not be present. Ethel arrives, and Mrs. Climber, in order to satisfy her guests, introduces Ethel as Countess de Shilac. The crook and adventuress arrive and announce themselves as the Count and Countess. Mrs. Climber is in a quandary; she must not let her guests know her deception. She is very busy keeping the crook and adventuress in the reception room (where they help themselves to odd articles of jewelry), while Ethel is being made a great deal of by the guests in the parlor. Ethel accidentally learns that the Countess de Shilac is in the reception room (really the adventuress). She thinks it time for her to get away, but the guests pay her so much attention that she is unable to make a graceful exit. Some of the guests miss their jewelry. Ethel is acting strangely, and she is suspected. The crooks begin to feel uncomfortable and manage to plant one of the stolen articles on Ethel. Bill arrives with a message that Ethel hurry back to the office; the boss wants her. The guests now realize that Ethel is not the Countess and when the detectives arrive they point accusing fingers at her. The two crooks continue their role of count and countess. They show disgust at what is going on, and paying their respects to Mrs. Climber, start to go. Another detective in the hall recognizes them as crooks and brings them back. At this juncture, the real Countess de Shilac arrives, much to the surprise of all. The detectives find the two crooks utterly loaded down with valuables, and Ethel is released.
- Jane Mersey got to the point where she had to have a little fun or die. John, her husband, always was too busy to take her anywhere, so when an agreeable young man, whom she chanced to meet, at the home of a mutual friend asked her to lunch with him next day, she accepted with alacrity. She did not quite catch Jerry Harcourt's name on introduction, and he was equally vague as to the identity of his new acquaintance. However, this was one of the cases where ignorance is bliss. Jane and Jerry met incognito, and had enjoyed a sumptuous meal. When the waiter slid his checque to him, Harcourt discovered that he had left all his cash in his other clothes at home. Concealing his agitation from the lady, he rushed to the phone. Calling up his old acquaintance, John Mersey, he told him that he must have five dollars right off the bat. Mersey, always a friend in need, promised to run right around to the café with the sum. When John arrived, and saw for himself, he changed his mind. He dragged Jane away, and Jerry was left to be plundered of watch and raiment by the restaurant keeper.
- George is a terrible sleepy head. It is a great deal of trouble for his landlady to get him up in the morning. One evening he returns home and informs the landlady that he must be at the office of a certain broker at 9 a.m. sharp the following morning, as he has a package of great importance to deliver. The next morning arrives and after several attempts to get George out of bed, the landlady at last succeeds. Meanwhile George's boss, who gave him the package to deliver, has received a letter telling him not to invest the money and is waiting for George's return to the office. He cannot stand the strain any longer and rushes out to the house where George resides. Arriving there he is just in time to find the landlady throwing George out the front door. George hits the boss and knocks him down. When they both get on their feet George tries to explain why the package of money is still undelivered, but the boss is so overjoyed that the investment has not been made that he gives George a week's salary and a week's vacation to get some sleep.
- Bob Smith is a very much bossed man. His wife runs the house and he does all the work. One day when she is going out to the milliner's, she leaves him at home to do the housework and clean the windows. While out she buys a hat and has it sent home. The boy arrives with the parcel just at the time Bob is seated on the window sill cleaning. Hearing the bell of the apartment ring Smith leaves his task and goes to the door. While he is receiving the box on the landing of the stairs, a sudden wind from the open window blows the door shut and as there is a spring lock on the door, Smith is locked out. He puts the box down and rings the bell of the opposite apartment where the Strongs live and asks Mrs. Strong's permission to climb out the window of her apartment and climb in his own. She consents. Smith gets into his apartment all right, but his curiosity about the hat box when he gets it in his hands detains him on the landing again and again the door blows shut. So he is compelled to go through the same course. While he has the box with him in the Strong apartment, Mrs. Strong asks him to show her the bonnet. He does so, and while this is going on Mr. Strong, who bosses his wife, arrives from the barbers and not having his key is about to knock on the door, but hearing voices he looks through the keyhole and sees Smith admiring Mrs. Strong in the new bonnet. In a jealous rage he breaks in the door and after tearing the bonnet to pieces he pursues Smith and is about to murder him when Mrs. Smith arrives. Things are explained. The Strongs retire to their rooms and the Smiths find their door is again locked. So they have to break in the door and are made to forget their anger by seeing the damage they have wrought on that spring lock.
- Bill, being careless about his duties, the boss arranges a set of rules for his observances. Bill and his pals, therefore, decide to right their wrongs and organize a union. They chip in a nickel apiece and buy themselves badges with the money. The vice-president of the union loses his job the next day, and calls on Bill to call a strike on account of his being discharged. They demand Izzy's job back, and threaten to strike if he is not taken back. They parade through the building and Bill's boss has the fire department turn the hose on them. They are disrupted and dragged back to work in disgrace.
- Mr. and Mrs. Jones, while returning from market, meet a crowd in front of the village store, lionizing Mr. Smith, who is credited with having captured a burglar single-handed. Mr. Jones is a very much henpecked man and his wife tells him that Smith is the kind of a man to have around the house. That night burglars invade the Jones home. Mrs. Jones forces her spouse, much against his will, to go downstairs. He goes and creeps outside of the house to avoid coming in contact with the men. By the merest chance the burglars are frightened and run, leaving their loot behind them. Then a brilliant idea strikes Jones. He covers himself with dirt and bringing the bag of sliver back to his wife, tells her that he had to fight with six desperate men. His fame as a hero soon makes him the biggest man in town, and he is not slow to take advantage of his exalted position to lord it over his now submissive wife.
- Hy and Cy, two country bumpkins, are rivals for the hand of Sue Higgins, whose father does not approve of their attentions. They both try to outdo each other to win Sue's affection. While they are wasting valuable time, Tom Tracey, a fine looking city chap, arrives in the village, and. meeting Sue one day on her way from the store with a heavily laden basket, offers his services. The chance acquaintance ripens into love, but his two rivals must be gotten rid of. Tom arranges for them to fight a duel for the hand of Sue. At first they object, but when Tom insists, and drags them off to the store to purchase the pistols, there is no other way out of it. Tom loads the pistols with blank cartridges unknown to Hy and Cy. They fight the duel with no deadly results, but badly frightened, they take refuge behind a tree. Old man Higgins sees them, and mistaking them for hobos, treats them to a load of shot and rock salt. While bemoaning their discomfort they have insult added to injury, by seeing Tom, the city fellow, become the accepted suitor of the girl they have been fighting for.
- Mrs. Byers takes a trip to the country, leaving her husband at home. The poker sessions Bill Byers has with the boys nightly are something fierce. When Wifey notifies Bill by telegram that she is going to return, Bill and the boys put the house in order as best they can. Next morning, Bill, on his way to the office, loses his keys, and when he finds them gone returns home and upsets everything looking for them. He has to climb in the front window and is seen by two plainclothes men and promptly arrested, although he strenuously objects. Meanwhile, Bill's wife arrives, and seeing the house all upset, goes to Bill's office to tell him, and is informed by the office boy that Bill had been there and gone in an excited frame of mind. Satisfied that something terrible has happened she at once seeks the police. Dusty Dawkins, a hobo, finds the keys where Bill has lost them and seeing on the key tag that a reward will be given for their return, at once starts for the address to return them, and claim the reward. He finds the door open and no one about, so he enters and makes himself at home. While Dusty is enjoying himself, Mr. and Mrs. Byers return home, she having explained to the police and had Bill released. They seize Dusty and are about to hand him over to the police when he returns the keys and is forgiven. Dusty is about to depart when Mrs. Bill discovers the wine bottles and playing cards that Dusty had taken from their hiding place in the piano. She immediately suspects something and upon making an investigation herself, finds that Bill has been enjoying himself instead of passing the lonely evenings in work at the office as he had informed her in his letters. Enraged she lectures Bill while Dusty makes his escape through the window.
- Jenks and his friend, Max, are out celebrating. They separate, and Max goes home to his hotel where he flirts with a pretty young woman in the lobby. Max's wife catches him, and gets a sound beating for his duplicity. Jenks, in the meantime, has broken a window. He is followed to his office by a detective. He manages to give the sleuth the slip by locking himself in private sanctum, where he stays all night. In the morning he is a trifle nonplussed to find the detective waiting in the hall to make the arrest. Jenks phones Max for help. Max's wife has gone away for the day, and her husband is free to enter into any piece of deviltry he pleases. He loses no time in getting hold of a dress belonging to his large mother-in-law and securing a quantity of false hair. These he contrives to pass into the office. Cleverly disguised, Jenks makes his getaway. He meets Max down the street and they repair to the latter's hotel together. A gossip sees them enter the lobby and immediately phones Mrs. Max, who hurries home. Over the transom she sees her husband smoking and drinking with an unknown companion in petticoats. She bursts into the room, and before Max can collect his wits to explain, he is caught up in a hurricane of marital vindictive and violence.
- Taking advantage of the boss's absence, Ethel decides to give a luncheon on the roof. Bill and his pal make up their minds that they should be included in the invitation, so they mount to the roof where Ethel and her guests are assembled. The hostess is not at all pleased at Bill's butting in, and at her request her male friends put the office boy and his chum off the roof and lock them out. Bill determines to give them a scare. So after nailing up the door, he starts some old rags smoldering. He and his pal then depart to get their lunch. The janitor smells smoke and soon locates the fire. The party, in their wild desire to reach safety, smash a window and receive the full force of the fire hose. Luncheon and gowns are ruined, but Ethel and her guests are rescued, amid the cheers of a large crowd gathered below.
- Murphy, who has just purchased a new high hat, is invited to the wedding of Kelly. He goes and during the excitement he leaves his hat on a chair. A large, fat woman sits on the chair. The hat is sent out by the groom and fixed. Murphy and Nolan plan to play a joke on Casey and put his hat on the chair. They are trying to persuade the fat woman to sit on it when Casey enters, sees the joke, and substitutes Murphy's hat for his own. The fat woman is then placed on the chair. Murphy asks Casey out for a walk and Casey consents. Murphy takes a hat from the piano and finding it too small discovers that it is Casey's hat. He pulls the fat woman from the chair and finds his own, flattened worse than before. Filled with rage, he rushes out, takes all the other hats and stamps upon them. The guests are about to attack him when Casey, who is the only one with a whole hat, plays an Irish jig on the piano. At the sound of Erin's music, all hat is forgotten, and a dance begins.