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- Mr. and Mrs. Jones' home adjoins that of Mr. and Mrs. Busybody and a side window of the latter's home faces the dining room window of the Jones' of which the blind remains always lowered. Therefore every evening, when Mr. Jones embraces his wife their shadows are projected upon the blind and always witnessed by envious Mrs. Busybody.
- After a little spat with his son-in-law (Billy), Mr. Wilson decides to go out in his automobile in order to divert his mind. Before he goes, his daughter reminds him of the warning he has received to refrain from speeding. He seats himself beside his chauffeur and everything is going along smoothly, until a flashy flirt crosses the road, at the same time giving them a dazzling smile. This so upsets the chauffeur that he narrowly escapes running her over. Before Mr. Wilson can get over the shock the car suddenly runs into Billy, who has gone out for a walk. The chauffeur deserts the car and Pa, not daring to look back, keeps on running until he reaches the water's edge, where he hides himself in a bale of hay that has been placed on the dock. Pa is afraid to return, fearing arrest, and passes the night on the dock. In the morning Billy and Betty read an account of the chauffeur and Pa having committed suicide. Pa's hat and coat having been found on the dock. However, Billy knows better, and he and Betty start out in search of him. Pa finally leaves his hiding place and strolls along the shore. The flirt is just getting ready for her morning plunge and as she gets into the water, Pa steals her dress and hat and dresses up as a woman. Just then Billy comes along, Betty following close by. Billy and Pa are just starting a little flirtation, when the flirt suddenly appears and angrily demands Pa to take off her clothes. Pa quickly complies and she walks off very indignantly. They all have a good laugh at Pa's adventures, and Billy and Pa give each other "the glad sign" and agree to be friendly ever after.
- Two rubes arrive in the city. They meet two "sons of rest" who ask them for the price of a meal. Noticing the stocking in which the rubes keep their money, the two hobos plan to steal it, but something in their faces arouse the rubes' suspicion and they leave hurriedly. They place the money in the grip, and set it down laughing at their narrow escape. The tramps are stealthily following and steal the grip at the first opportune moment. The rubes follow in a chase through the city but the tramps get away. Sadly the rubes return, and while strolling aimlessly through the park they meet a pretty girl. They both endeavor to outshine each other in winning the fair one's admiration, with the result that they soon get into a fight, and the sudden appearance of the girl's sweetheart adds to the trouble. The rubes soon discover that they are broke and must look for work. They see an advertisement in the newspaper calling for motormen and conductors, and apply for the jobs. They are put to work on the same car, and while on duty, along comes the girl whom they had quarreled over. The conductor has the advantage, and makes himself agreeable, while the motorman nurses a secret rage. When the girl gets off, the conductor gallantly gets off, too, and assists her when suddenly the motorman puts on full speed, and the conductor is forced to run after the car. When he finally catches up with it, he and his one-time chum get into a fight. A policeman comes along and, fearing arrest, they throw him down and run. They finally land in a cellar where the two tramps have hidden to divide up the money, and in the scuffle that follows, the rubes succeed in getting back their belongings. As they walk off arm in arm, they swear in future no woman shall interfere with their friendship.
- Mrs. Grouch on a shopping tour is followed home by a flirt. She goes for a policeman and he arrests her husband, who has returned home, by mistake. Her husband thinks the policeman is her lover. After a series of funny scenes we see the right man arrested and Mr. Grouch handing Money to Mrs. Grouch for a much-desired dress.
- Tired from too much attention, doggie hides in a laundry basket for a little nap and when the man calls for the basket, doggie, who is concealed among the clothes, is taken along. When the dog is missed, there is great grief and an advertisement is immediately inserted in the paper offering $100 for his return. Fatty's girl tells him he can win her hand by proving himself a great detective and bringing the little pet home again. He assures her that doggie will be found and sets out in search of an Italian peddler who called earlier that day and whom he suspects. He tells him he is a detective and demands the dog, whereupon the Italian treats him to a good walloping and doesn't do a thing to him generally. Then he gets two of his pals to sandbag Fatty and drag him into the bushes and relieve him of his clothes. Whereupon Fatty is obliged to come forth attired like Adam in a suit of leaves, and is followed for blocks by a howling mob. Finally he reaches home in an exhausted condition. The next day about a hundred dogs are brought to the house in answer to the ad, but still no sign of doggie. A couple of thieves read the ad and conclude that anyone who can give $100 for a lost dog is worth robbing. Their plot is overheard by Fatty and he sets out on their trail, entering the house through a window just as the robbers are starting investigations within. They spy him and give him a severe beating, making their escape. Fatty runs after them and is noticed by the police, who suspect him. They follow him all night in an automobile and chase him into the water. He finally escapes through a sewer and rushes to his girl's home just as the laundry wagon arrives and doggie is delivered to his owner to the great joy of all.
- Ben Chambers is invited to a house party by Mrs. Chauncey, who has three daughters. Two of them are on the threshold of old maids and, fearing the attractions of their younger sister, with their mother try to keep her out of the way of Mr. Chambers. She is dressed as a girl of fifteen and confined to her room. Mr. Chambers arrives, finds himself the recipient of embarrassing attention from the two older sisters. Wearied, he seeks the gardener and learns from him that there is splendid trout fishing nearby. He leaves the party to go fishing. At the same time the young prisoner decides to go a-wading. As Chambers is casting his line the fly hook catches the damsel's tiny shoe. He draws it to him, seeks the owner, but catches a hasty glimpse of her retreating through the woods. The next day he renews his search after first satisfying himself that the shoe belongs to no one in the party. He finds the girl and the old story of the fairy prince and Cinderella is re-enacted.
- Vera's father insists she marry Count Di Lucca, a man whom she has never seen. Vera objects to the marriage. A persistent suitor also hears of this proposed marriage and schemes to kidnap the Count and substitute an organ-grinder in his place. Dl Lucca, desiring to ascertain the girl's worth, changes place with his valet. As a result the valet is kidnapped and when the count arrives, after being delayed, he finds the household in a turmoil because of the antics of the supposed Count. His valet escapes from the office in which the kidnappers put him and hurries to the house. After due explanations the count reveals himself and all are made happy. Vera has no further objections to the marriage and we see her resting contentedly in the count's arms.
- Cy is the village runt. He is fondly attached to Mary, the village Belle. This attachment Ethel, Cy's sister, views with approval. But Spud, the bully, picks on Cy who is too small to retaliate. One day, after Cy has been particularly maltreated by Spud, and in consequence, has fallen into Mary's bad graces, Ethel, knowing that pity is akin to love, gets Cy to pretend he is sick, puts him in an invalid chair and begs Mary to come and comfort him. Mary does this, but is spied by Spud, who learns that Cy is faking illness and is really in the best of health. He crawls into Cy's room, ties him in the invalid's chair and rolls him out of the house, sending him off on a mad career downhill. The chair, with the helpless Cy, crashes into a tramp, who is more or less banged up, and Cy, freed at last, takes pity on him and takes him to his house for treatment. There Ethel conceives another scheme to make Cy a hero. At a party she intends giving, Cy is to sing. At a prearranged signal the tramp beforehand placed on a ladder outside of the window, is to enter, cover the merrymakers with a gun and apparently told them up Cy is to come heroically to the rescue. The party comes off, so does the hold-up, and Cy, without any difficulty, after all the men, including Spud, have rushed from the room, overpowers the tramp and throws him out, whereupon Mary naturally falls into Cy's arms, proudly calling him "My hero."
- The blue-eyed, curly-haired pet of the family, Willie, is the leader of a boy gang up to all sorts of tricks. On this red letter day they find Mr. Tipple Suds, the convivial husband of the fat and efficient washerlady, Mrs. Suds, badly the worse for wear sleeping off a drop too much in the peaceful seclusion of an old wagon seat. The boys run off with the wagon and take the helpless Suds to their cave. Here they tie the prisoner up and concoct a letter to his spouse demanding thirty cents as the price of their victim's release. This note being placed in the worthy woman's hands, she straightway answers that her husband "isn't worth thirty cents." In the meantime the boys have confiscated the eatables of a picnic party in order to feed their hungry prisoner. Two tramps, being forcibly rebuffed in their demands upon Mrs. Suds for food, come across the cave by chance. They release the prisoner and find in the cave a banquet to their liking. When the boys come back to their quarters they find the enemy in possession and are forced to forage for liquid refreshments. Seeing their opportunity they concoct a strange mixture, which speedily renders the adult garrison of the cave hors de combat. Then seeking the assistance of the despoiled picnickers they see the enemy ducked in the pond. That night when the angel child is put to bed by his mother and the evening prayers are said she leaves him, little thinking of the outlaw deeds that occupied his day.
- Margery, in spite of the protests of Dr. Evans, her fiancé, decides to join a suffragette "hike," the other members of which are spinsters of the most modern type. On the same day that the "hike" starts, a tattooed lunatic escapes from Dr. Evans' sanitarium. Every endeavor is made to capture the man, who spreads terror throughout the countryside. The suffragettes take refuge in a vacant roadhouse into which the lunatic has climbed. As a result the women are thrown into a condition of terror through the antics of the fugitive, until he is first put out of business and then succored by the eldest of the suffragettes, who shows in the end an unexpected tenderness for the stronger sex. The doctor comes to the rescue of the women, only to find them contented, with the exception of Margery who, disgusted with her co-adventurers, is willing to be taken home by the doctor.
- Because Mr. Jones is unable to come home at a reasonable hour, Mrs. Jones takes away his latchkey. He does not reform, however, and after an evening spent at his club, he wanders around and at last turns towards his happy home, a little unsteady on his feet, due to too many "bracers." At the club, Davis ridicules the police and makes a wager that he can rob a house and not be caught. His wager is taken up and he goes home to his apartment to get ready, and there finds a real-live burglar. He takes the man's outer garments away, dons them himself and after locking the burglar up in a room, starts out in search of a suitable house to "rob." He comes across the Jones' house and with a skeleton key, endeavors to open the door. Jones who sees him, thinks he is at the wrong house, and staggers over to a neighbor's house, which he mistakes for his own. Not having any key, he tries to get in through a window. By this time Davis' real burglar has escaped and run foul of the police. Mrs. Jones, who has been sitting up waiting for Jones, hears a sound and as Davis creeps in, hits him over the head with her rolling-pin. Discovering her mistake, she phones the police telling them she has captured a burglar in her house. The Browns, next door, have been awakened by Jones' efforts to get in through the window and also summon help. As a result, when Jones and Davis finally make their escape, they meet with a bang and before they can make a getaway the real burglar, pursued by the police, came sprawling on top of them. The policemen arrive and in the excitement the burglar steals away, enters the Jones' house, gathers up some silver and "beats it." Davis is taken away by a policeman, while Jones is yanked into the house by his irate wife. Suddenly they discover the place has been robbed and rush to the police station to report their loss. Davis succeeds in breaking away from the policeman, and runs into the burglar, carrying the loot away from the Joneses. He takes the silver away from him and rushes back to the club, and there claims he has won the bet. The club fellows are incredulous, however, and send one of their number to the police station for verification. When the man arrives, he finds the Joneses there lamenting their stolen property. Upon displaying the silver, the Joneses cry aloud for joy, embrace him and leave, happy in the recovery of their property. The clubman phones his club and tells them Davis has lost, whereupon he is obliged to "cash in."
- Mrs. Spreckles makes a huckleberry pie and decides that she will take it to the city and give it to her daughter whom she intends visiting. When she gets there she finds her daughter is not at home, so leaving directions and the pie with her daughter's maid, she goes out on a shopping tour. It happens that Mr. Crum, Mrs. Spreckles' son-in-law, after somewhat of a tiff with his wife, has sought solace to such an extent that he arrives home somewhat unsteady on his legs. He rummages about the apartment and involves himself to such a degree with the pie that he breaks it all to pieces and covers himself with the juice. Then he goes to sleep. Mrs. Crum arrives home and finds her husband supposedly blood-covered, and naturally assumes it is suicide. The maid hears her lamentations, sees her also daubed with the pie juice and, waving a paper knife, and concludes that she has committed the murder. The police are summoned, but before they take Mrs. Crum off to jail, Mrs. Spreckles arrives. She examines the "corpse" and discovers that the blood is only huckleberry juice, whereupon Mrs. Crum is cleared of the murder.
- By breathing the fumes of Rigidal on anyone they will sleep for one hour. In this comedy there is a tramp, a farmer, a baby and several others who create much laughter.
- Mr. Bigbilt, who suffers from indigestion, resents Tom Gray's attentions to his daughter. Flora. The two young people conspire and see to it that Bigbilt is sent to a sanitarium run by Dr. Soakum. Gray gets a position from Soakum as an attendant. After many hardships Bigbilt agrees to give Gray anything he desires if he will help him escape. The two men make a getaway and ultimately arrive at Bigbilt's home. Gray asks for Flora's hand in marriage and Bigbilt lives up to his promise.