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- Mr. and Mrs. Sweettooth were basking in the sunshine in Goofers Park. Their neighbors were having, a friendly spat in another part of the park. Philip de Glass the neighbor, had a hobby all his own of which he is about to par-take, when a policeman comes along and helps the good cause along. Both wives tire of sitting and start scrapping with their husbands. The husbands run away and both meet at the lake, where a pretty nurse girl starts a flirtation with them. She runs to the lake and tells them that the one that recovers the rose which she has thrown into the lake, can have her hand. While they are both straggling to get the rose, the cop, who is the nurse-girl's regular sweetheart, comes along. Great excitement follows and the cop throws them both out of the park. They land on a flivver which drives them right into a huge explosion and they go up into the air. In the meantime, the wives have made the acquaintance of Prof. Jim-Jam, whose specialty is shimmie-shaking. He has a class of beautiful girls whom he is supposed to introduce to a well known dancer that afternoon. He demonstrates to the wives a few steps and makes them eager to learn the new dance. The Powder Puff High School pupils are already in costumes awaiting for the big fete of the afternoon. They are prettily draped in veils, etc., and then some, when Philip De Glass and his friend land in the park near (where the girls are awaiting the arrival of the Professor and his friend. They discover some animal skins and when they find that their clothes are torn to pieces, they don the animal skins and then go out to the lawn, and the girls thinking they are the new Professor and his guest, proceed to entertain them with fancy steps. They are having a glorious time when suddenly the real Professor and the wives appear on the scene. Lots of funny situations follow and pretty effects are seen on the lawn.
- Susie Speed loses her job n a lawyer's office and gets another one as waitress in a restaurant. Her slowness nearly drives the manager crazy. A chappie enters and sits at Sue's table without removing his high hat. After several attempts to remove it Sue places it on his chair and he sits on it. She then throws it through the service window, where it lands on a tray, and another waitress serves it to Herr Tonik, a scientist. He tries to eat it and on discovering his mistake, angrily leaves. Sue and Maggie start a fight. The manager throws Sue out. Sue sees a sign "Stenographer Wanted" at the "Chemical Research Laboratory" and applies for the Job. Herr Tonik engages her. As she dawdles over her typing he recognizes her as the girl from the restaurant and determines to speed her up. His experiments evolve a "speed powder" and he tries it out on a dog. The dog jumps out of a third story window, climbs a tree, sits in the branches and howls. Satisfied, Herr Tonik gives some to Sue in a box of candy. She speeds up, fairly burns the typewriter. Tonik dispatches Sue to the factory with a bag of the powder in his car. Falling to start the car by cranking, Sue gives it some of the powder, whereupon it goes so fast that it runs into a wooden Indian. Frightened, Sue gives the Indian some of the powder and he comes to life and threatens to take her. She escapes on a wooden horse which she brings to life in the same way. The factory manager refuses to believe the powder is as wonderful as Sue says. She throws a pinch of it into the street and the traffic begins to move like mad. She blows some toward the river and the boats go crazy. A ferry boat loops the loop and dives into its slip. The drawbridge opens and shuts in a flash as boats and trains dash by. This tickles the office boy. He wants to see real action and throws the bag out of the window. Sue escapes as the factory begins to rock and dashes out while the powder starts a cyclone which whirls across the city, tearing up trees and houses and destroying everything in its path. She reaches the laboratory just ahead of the cyclone and tells Herr Tonik. In the midst of this the office begins to whirl and Sue wakes up as Herr Tonik calls her down for sleeping on the job.
- Owata Hobo is a poor friendless tramp on the road to nowhere. In his travels he comes upon poor little orphaned Louise crying as if her heart would break. She explains that she is on her way to a farm and that she has been robbed by three bandits. Owata Hobo captures the bandits and gives Louise back her valuables. He carries her bags to the farm where she gives the farmer a letter of introduction and is immediately hired. Owata Hobo is so smitten that he works for nothing at the farm. The farmer who is a tyrant beats and mistreats poor Louise. He sends her to fetch to fetch a pail of water. While getting the water she discovers an artist painting a landscape. He asks her to pose for him which she does. In the meantime, Hobo has his troubles with the scarecrow and the farmer. Charlie brings a bouquet of flowers to Louise while she is posing. The artist takes the flowers from him, gives him 50c and tells him to beat it. The farmer discovers Louise posing and drags her back to the farmhouse. He starts to beat her when Hobo comes on the scene. He jumps on the farmer and knocks him out, grabs Louise, puts her on a buck-board and they race away. The artist has witnessed their escape, and follows in a racing car. The buck-board overturns and they are both pretty badly hurt. The artist takes the girl and rides away with her. Charlie gets up, shakes the dirt off himself and travels along his lonely way to nowhere.
- Chemist Donald Wallace is an atheist who believes science is the only God. He is loved by his cousin, Truth Eldridge, but is too self centered and too attentive to his radium experiments to notice her affection. Instead, he falls for Paula Roberts. When they come upon a lost little girl named Peggy, Wallace decides to take care of her until he finds her parents, but despite being a kind man, he insists to the girl that there is no God. James Dale, Wallace's assistant and Truth Eldridge's secret admirer, accidentally kills her when he tries to poison Wallace. Shortly after her death, Truth returns in spirit form to convince Wallace that God exists after all.
- London settlement worker John Morton, Jr., is unaware of the existence of his twin brother, James Melvale, a Paris man-about-town. Frances Lloyd, the wealthy daughter of an American senator, becomes interested in John's work and falls in love with him; but his rival, Lord Warburton, makes Frances believe that John is also James. After many adventures in the underworlds of London and Paris, Warburton is exposed as an impostor and leader of crooks; the brothers are reunited; James reforms; and John finds happiness with Frances.
- The beginning of a perfect day was for Phil to make his own breakfast, take his daily plunge, and be waited on by his valet, who happens to be Brownie the dog. Outside of being a gentleman, Phil was also a dancing professor and taught pretty young ladies how to twinkle their toes. Across the hall from him lived a modiste and her daughter. The daughter was pretty and that's where the story becomes interesting. A pretty girl, a next door neighbor and strict mother all go to make a very deliciously naughty situation. They are about to elope when mother returns and finds her daughter leaving home. She scolds her, and in the rush to get her into her apartment, leaves her grip outside in the hall. Phil grabs his grip and runs back into his room. In the meantime an ex-jail bird has managed to get away with a grip full of jewels; However, the police are right on his heels and chase him into the same house where Phil and the girl live. He rushes up into the hall where he sees the other grip, changes the grips and when the officer gets up to him and searches the grip, all he finds is a collar. The mother realizes the loss of her daughter's grip, goes out into the hall and takes the grip. A general mix-up of grips follows wherein some very funny incidents occur. After a very daring roof chase, the thief is caught and thrown back into prison. Mother forgives the professor and the finis fade out leaves every one in a happy contented mood.
- Bob, cabaret entertainer, is always broke. He is in love with Dot, whose father sends her away to school. She writes Bob that she is sailing the next day. Although Bob hasn't the fare, he resolves to take the same boat. Taking wigs and make-up, he tries to get aboard. He hides in a box but is discovered, climbs to a porthole, but is knocked down by a pail of garbage; climbs a rope, but it is cast off by a sailor, and he falls into the water. Finally, he gives up and is waiting for a last look at Dot, when a porter, thinking him a belated passenger, hurries him on board. Dot is delighted but the purser checks short and starts to find the extra passenger. Bob makes up exactly like the captain. Later he disguises as a sailor, but is caught and put to work scrubbing the decks. Tiring of this, he makes up in exact duplicate of the Count de Brie. The purser discovers the two counts and brings them together, demanding to know "which is the impostor." Dot saves Bob by claiming he is the real count. The purser forces the count to stoke the fires while Bob enjoys himself with Dot. The count's wife sees them in an affectionate pose, and drags Bob away, beats him and throws him on the bed in the stateroom while she dresses for dinner. The count escapes, enters his stateroom to find Bob. The wife is horrified. The count starts after Bob. The purser and sailors join the chase, and Bob takes refuge on top of the smoke stack. The count shoots and he falls through the smoke stack and out of the furnace into the stoke hole. The chase continues, Bob finds Dot and drags her to the bow of the boat. The others are about to overpower him when the ship is torpedoed. Bob and Dot land on a piece of wreckage. The purser comes up out of the water and demands Bob's fare. Bob pushes him under and he and Dot float away.
- The benefactor who made her father millions demands her hand in marriage as part of the bargain, but the daughter has her own sweetheart, who rushes to get a marriage license.
- Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir, she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully-sleeping congregants. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily. Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, Third Edition.
- The story tells of the comedy company of the Foolish Film Company which starts out to make some scenes near the Nitro Munition Factory. The comedian is made up as a villain, and as he strolls about the grounds of the munition factory Mr. Fidgit, the owner of the factory, sees him from the window. Fidgit thinks him a bomb thrower, as he is carrying an imitation bomb. He phones to the Dubb Detective Agency. Susie Speed, the fearless girl detective, is put on the case She meets Fidgit with his insurance papers and other valuables. He directs her to the place where he last saw the supposed bomb-thrower. Fidgit goes back to his office while Sue starts around the building. Having found the location satisfactory, the comedy director has a dummy of the comedian made and set up with the bomb in its hand, planning to have the hero shoot off its head in the next scene. Sue rounds the corner, thinks the villain is about. to hurl the bomb into the factory, and dives into him. After a battle, she tears its head off and realizes it is only a dummy. Thinking herself the victim of a joke, she returns to Fidgit's office and "bawls him out." When the director finds the dummy wrecked he orders it repaired and goes on with the next scene. The villain and his aide bind the heroine and carry her to a stake, where they are to burn her. From the window Fidgit and Sue see them tying her to the stake, and thinking it real, they rush to the rescue. Sue empties her revolver at them and the whole picture company makes a dash for safety. The actors and the director start back and a blowout on a passing auto scatters them again. The director says, "Some lunatic is shooting at us. Let's find another location." And they start for their auto. Sue looks around as they are helping the heroine into the car and says to Fidgit, "They're kidnapping her. I'll get them." The company arrives at another location. They tie the heroine to a stake, pile wood around her and prepare to "burn her." Sue sees this and summons the police and the fire department. Sue seizes the hose from the first fire engine to arrive and turns it on the fire. The fire is extinguished all right, the villain put to flight, and the heroine nearly drowned. The director charges on Sue with all his men, and she puts them to route with the hose. The police arrive and are about to arrest everyone, when the director demands of Sue the reason why she broke up his scene. Sue then realizes her mistake. Fidgit dashes through the crowd and asks Sue, "Did you get them?" This is the last straw. Sue turns the hose on him and rushes away. She comes to a streetcar track and sees a car coming swiftly toward her. Disgusted with her career as a detective she decides to end it all and lays down on the streetcar track, the car rushes right up to her, and instead of running over her, turns a corner swiftly and goes down a side street. She sees another car coming and moves over into the track running down that side street, while the next car passes her and runs straight up the track upon which she was lying previously. In desperation she gives up the attempt to end her life, tears off the badge and throws it after the car.
- Susie's fed up with her no-account husband who fancies himself a writer. She intends to run away, but he decides to go with her, hiding in her steamer trunk. Arriving in "The Big City" (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania!), she meets some lounge lizards in a big hotel who might do her some good. Her dimwit spouse, after being knocked about in the trunk, starts a fire by lighting his pipe inside it, causing panic.
- Tom Logan was nearing the close of his prison term. The jail door opened and closed on him; this time he was on the outside, a free man. He started out to secure employment, but at every hand he was rebuffed and turned away. He drifted west. He was given work on a ranch, and soon by honest, intelligent service was promoted to be foreman. From the first meeting between Rose, the ranchman's daughter, and Tom, there had existed a sentiment of mutual interest which ere long developed into love. But the barrier of his past forbade him to speak of love to Rose, until he had laid the secret of his life before her father. At this time Red Conway, who had been confined in the same prison as Tom, escaped. After killing a man in a gambling house he fled west and sought work at the very ranch of which Tom now had charge. Tom, not recognizing his former fellow-convict, hired him. Soon afterward Tom, unexpectedly entering a room of the ranch house, surprised Red in the act of stealing money from the ranchman's desk. The foreman snatched the money from the robber's hands and was about to give the alarm when the thief turned upon him and threatened him with exposure. While Tom hesitated his employer and Rose suddenly entered. Red at once pointed to the green bills in the foreman's hands. Deaf to all words of explanation from the accused foreman, the men made him a prisoner in a hut, with Red Conway as his jailer. Late that afternoon cowboys from all the neighboring ranches for miles around assembled at the ranch house to hold a dance. Rose, who felt too badly over the evident downfall of her lover to take part in the merrymaking, started to visit some friends a few miles across the plain. But she turned back, determining not to forsake Tom in his hour of need. She was captured by a band of Indians. Tom from his prison window saw the treacherous savages stealthily approaching the ranch house. Battering down the door, he gave the alarm to the dancing cowpunchers. They seized their arms and rushed out. After a sharp battle the redskins retreated, hotly pursued by the ranchman for several miles. As Tom turned his horse to return, he saw Rose's hat at the side of the trail. Realizing that she had fallen into the hands of the redskins he started single-handed to rescue her. After a frantic search he discovered the dusky marauders' encampment, at the foot of a steep cliff he saw his sweetheart a prisoner. Attracting her attention he lowered a rope. Rose was about to fasten herself to it, when Dawn, an Indian girl whom Tom had befriended and who was in love with him, pushed the white girl aside, and was hauled upward in her stead. Tom spurned the Indian maiden's plea of love. Peering again he saw the red fiends tying the rancher's daughter to a stake to burn her alive. He was almost in despair, when he saw the boys from his own ranch and a squadron of cavalry approaching. Hastily telling them of the girl's deadly plight, the combined forces sounded the charge. The Indians were taken completely by surprise by the onrushing horsemen. Tom saved Rose just as the flames were leaping upward about her. Red Conway had received his death-wound, but before he died he confessed that it was he who had tried to steal the money. Tom, fully vindicated, was restored to his former position, and the rancher gave him the hand of his daughter as a reward for bravery and faithful service.
- Two effete noblemen get slightly mixed up when two knights of the road obtain their passports and clothes, impersonate them, and lay a series of mischief and crimes at the door of the imported innocents.
- Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim roll into a town in a box car on a cold winter's day. They look out of the box car and see a chicken yard in the distance. They are chased by the farmer when they attempt to steal a chicken but they make their getaway and build a roaring fire, over which they roast the juicy fowl. After their meal they fall asleep and his majesty appears from a cloud of smoke and says "you fellows have had hell enough on this earth, with the wishbone of the chicken in your possession your every wish shall be granted." With the aid of the wishbone the fortunate tramps enjoy luxurious food, ride in beautiful cars and enjoy the coming of bewitching maidens, and escape from the police several times by waving the magic wishbone. They do not proceed far in one of their cars when they crash into a street car and the auto is badly wrecked. They decide that the auto is no good and wish that a dump cart were transformed into a car. Their wish is granted and they drive to the railroad yards, find all their brother hobos and invite them out for a ride. They have a hilarious time until the auto crashes into a telegraph pole. The scene then fades back to where they both fell asleep devouring the chicken and they wake up extremely frightened, throw the wishbone away and decide that it is no good.
- Joe's daughter was coming home from college and the town was excited because Lillian was a "peach." Joe ran the village inn assisted by Aunt Emily, who was so darn anxious to get married that she had sent her niece's photograph to a matrimonial agency, claiming the likeness as her own, in her effort to land a "man." Charles is riding along the road in a Ford closely watched by Brownie, the sheriff's dog. He strikes Joe's inn as a reception is being held for Lillian and recognizes her immediately as the girl in the photo whom he had come to marry at the instance of the agency. Lillian was dressed in an ugly costume, because Aunt was angry and had forced it upon her, but Charles falls in love with her anyway. As luck would have it, the family get rich through discovery of oil in the back yard, and this doubles Charles' ardor, so that he and Lillian plan to elope. But the plan is overheard by Aunty, who works it so that she takes Lillian's place. She is heavily veiled and the unsuspecting Charles whisks her off to a minster's house. Just as the binding words are being pronounced, Lillian and Dad who had discovered the plot, pounce upon the pair and poor Aunty is left on the "shelf" because an exchange of brides is immediately instituted.
- Bridget, a cook, is in love with Clarence, the cop, whose affections are centered elsewhere although he occasionally makes love to Bridget for the sake of the pies and doughnuts which are always forthcoming at such times. One day as he is leaving the back door after a pie-feast, he accidentally drops a note out of his helmet which Bridget finds after he is gone and proceeds to read. The note pertains to an appointment for that afternoon and is signed, "your own sweetheart. Ellen". Bridget realizes that she is being "worked for a good thing" and resolves to go to the meeting place and spy upon her supposed lover. She conceals herself behind a signboard and watches as Clarence and Ellen meet in front of it. Ellen begs Clarence to take her to the carnival that night and although he is supposed to be on duty, he plans to dress in civilian's clothes, disguise himself with a moustache and meet her at the carnival at eight o'clock. Bridget hears all this and, being armed only with a frying-pan, she goes home to prepare a fitting revenge for that evening. The cop hides a suit of clothes and a big moustache under a bridge so that he can get them later. Moon Faced Mike, a crook finds the clothes, puts them on and throws his own ragged ones into the river. The crook wears a big black moustache and, attired in the Cop's clothes, he looks exactly as the Cop intended to look. The sergeant of Clarence's precinct steps under the bridge to light his pipe and stumbling on his way out he drops his revolver unnoticed to the ground. Shortly before eight, Bridget, armed with a huge revolver, starts for the Carnival grounds. Ellen is already there awaiting her lover and Clarence goes to the bridge. He finds his clothes gone and in looking for them he discovers the sergeant's revolver. He recognizes it and decides that the sergeant must have over heard his plan. So in fear of losing his job, he hurries back to his beat. Ellen is waiting in the Carnival grounds as the Crook drifts in, in search of pockets to pick. Ellen sees him, and mistaking him for the Cop in his disguise rushes up and throws her arms around his neck. The Crook is surprised but wholly pleases until Bridget rushes up and opens fire with her "Gatling". Not knowing what else to do, the Crook runs with Bridget close behind. A wild chase through the Carnival grounds ensues with some hair-raising stunts on a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel, after which the Crook leaves the grounds and seeks safety elsewhere, with Bridget, blazing away, just one jump behind. They run through a Chinese laundry leaving it in ruins and then through a saloon which they wreck completely. They climb a high chimney, leap from the top of that, several hundred feet to the top of a wireless station tower and run out on the "wireless" wires. The operator starts to send a message and Bridget and the Crook are shocked off the wires and fall to the roof of an office building. They chase around the roofs and jump to the group where Bridget pre-empts an automobile and gives chase in that. The poor Crook dives into the side window of a brick house. Bridget drives the car right through the brick wall and chases him throughout the house, smashing the furniture on the way and throwing inmates into hysterics, and tearing through the brick wall at the other end of the house, she chases the Crook on down the street. The police station looms up ahead and the poor Crook takes refuge there, running up a long flight of steps and into the judge's room. Bridget, in the auto, follows right up the stairs and, bursting into the run, confronts her supposed lover. He appeals to the police to save him. They recognize him as Moon Faced Mike, wanted for burglary and look him up. Clarence enters in uniform and Bridget seeing her mistake, throws her arms about his neck. "All's well that.... "etc. The foregoing story "Bridget's Blunder" was written and worked out by the following persons all citizens of United States of America, and all in the employ of the United States Picture Corporation. Rex A. Taylor, James O. Walsh, Joseph A, Richmond, William Fables, James M. Harris, and Horace G. Flimpton.
- In Mexico, the hero has to give an acceptable exhibition of the toreador's skill to win the hand of the fair maid.
- High Spigh, and ambitious but unsuccessful detective, arrives at his office and proceeds to look over his morning paper. In it he finds an account of how Herr Trigger, a scientist, has discovered a powerful explosive and that several foreign nations are bidding for the secret. While he ponders over this a girl enters the office. She tells him that she is Gretchen, the daughter of Herr Trigger, and that she wants him to find her father, who has disappeared. She tells him of the discovery of the explosive, how her father's assistant tried to steal the formula, how Senor Frijoles and a Spanish girl called at the house to buy the secret on the previous day and how, the next morning, she found the laboratory wrecked and her father gone. High Spigh takes the case and Gretchen takes him to her home where he finds a clue in the shape of a huge footprint. He follows the trail down the street till he runs into the owner of the foot, a big Mexican. On seeing the detective's badge the Mex runs. He seizes a bunch of toy balloons from a street vendor and floats off into the air with them. High punctures the balloons with shots from his revolver. The Mex falls through a skylight into a room with his explosives. When the big Mex announces that the police are on their trail, the gang seize Herr Trigger and all dive through the trap in the wall, sliding through a subterranean passage to the river. Meanwhile High leaps to the top of the building, drops through the skylight and finds himself in the den. There he carelessly drops one of the bombs and is blown up into the sky. He lands in the river from which he is rescued by Gretchen whom he sends to Frijoles' office to find the missing formula if possible. Frijoles sends the gang to their cave with Herr Trigger while he and the Spanish girl go to his office. He stops to buy a cigar and she enters the office which is on the thirty-fifth floor of an office building, and finds Gretchen opening the safe. She and Gretchen have a fight with bowie knives which ends as a mouse runs across the floor and both girls jump on a desk and hug each other for safety. Frijoles enters and he and the Spanish girl lock Gretchen in the safe and push it out the window. High Spigh enters just in time to see this. He turns and runs down the thirty-five flights of stairs and reaches the grounds in time to catch the safe as it lands. Releasing Gretchen, he sends her home and trails Frijoles, who orders a barrel of powder sent to the den. High hides in the barrel and arrives at the den. Frijoles and the Spanish girl capture Gretchen and take her to the den where they tie her and her father, set a fuse to the barrel of powder and leave them to their fate. Gretchen gets free, pushes the barrel down the mountain where it chases the gang up a tree. High comes out of the barrel and covers the gang with his gun. They try to resist and he shoots. A dissolve shows him at his desk, having dreamed of all this. His feet are on the desk in front of him, his gun in his hand. As he pulls the trigger he shoots his own toe, wakes up, and dances around the room holding his foot.
- Charles, otherwise known as "Useless," is a helper in a blacksmith's shop in Chestnutville, and useless he surely was. He has a good time of life, however, especially when a customer enters with a baby carriage from which one of the wheels had been broken off. Charles does more than fix the carriage. He discovers that it really contained a "precious" load, and he drank until he staggered. But all good times must end sometime, and Useless fell in love with a girl. Naturally, when a city chap tried to beat him to it. Useless departs for the city to win fame, fortune and the girl. A fortune teller advises him to stake his luck on the horses and he gets a job at the track. He has heaps of mishaps until the day of the great race when he sees his girl with the villain among the spectators. The villain recognizes him and seeks to disable the horse which he thinks will be the winner. When Useless intervenes, he is thrown from the hay loft where he is sitting onto the back of the race horse; the horse becomes frightened, chases out, enters the race, and wins with flying colors. Charlie is showered with flowers but when he begins to demand the money, the fortune teller explains that he is still gazing in the crystal. Charlie smashes the crystal, is thrown out by the fortune teller, and alas, is compelled to hit the trail home again.
- A young man is kept under his mother-in-law's thumb until he joins the army. The sight of him in uniform works a welcome change in his domestic arrangements, both his wife and her mother being eager to wait upon the coming hero.
- This story tells about "The Swede" and The Tad. "The Swede" sweeps the streets and The Tad drives a dump cart. While talking one day the fire department runs past and they envy the fireman. They stop the political boss and ask him to set them jobs with the fire department. He tells them to stick to their jobs. During the noon-hour they sit in the rear of the dump cart and finish the contents of their lunch pails. As they sit back to enjoy a smoke, their imaginations show them as fire chiefs surrounded by husky firemen. A political friend dashes up and informs them he has started an independent fire league and wants them to take charge of it. They are delighted, and he takes them to the new fire house. They are introduced to the firemen and at once take charge. They put the firemen to work and keep everything humming. The chief orders a fire drill after which all grab the pole and slide up to their dormitory. There the firemen undress by order. The helmets all come off at one count and are thrown across on their respective pegs on another. The shoes follow and are thrown into a corner where they arrange themselves in a row. The firemen jump backward into bed and are automatically covered up. The chief and his assistant retire to their own bedrooms where they undress, and hang their clothes on a rack. In the night the fire-gong awakes the firemen, who turn to a row of push buttons. They push No. 1, and the bed clothes fly off; No. 2 and the shoes fly out of the corner on to their feet. No. 3 tips the beds and lands the firemen on the floor. On pushing No. 4 their helmets fly off the pegs and land on their heads. No. 5 lines them all up at attention. The chiefs start for the door. As they pass the clothes rack they appear on the other side fully clothed. They dash into the dormitory and all slide down the pole. The horses are quickly harnessed and all start for the fire, the chief in a dinky roadster, the others on the fire engine, while the hose cart, pulled by a dried up little fireman, speeds up and passes the engine, runs up behind the chief's auto and jumps over it. At the fire they have many difficulties and finally seeing a girl at the fourth story window with the flames shooting out around her, they lasso her and pull her to the ground. She "bawls them out" and the boys decide that their methods of rescuing are wrong. Another girl appears at an upper window. The chief orders his men to play the hose just under the window. He jumps into the stream and slides up to the window, gets the girl and prepares to slide down again when the hose breaks. With his arms around the girl, and struggling against the flames he awakes to find himself seated in the dump cart with his arms around the street sweeper. He relates his dream and finishes by saying "I don't want to be a fireman," and they start for their afternoon's work.
- With the blowing of the one o'clock whistle Waldo is awakened from his snooze on a park bench and dashes home. There he demands his dinner, but Sue, his wife, shows him the empty larder and tells him: "If you don't provide for me, I'll get a job for myself," and she starts out. She lands a job with the Dubb Detective Agency and is assigned to the case of a woman who wants to get evidence for a divorce. With a photograph of the faithless husband, Sue goes at once to his business address and stations herself by the door, where she watches every passer-by, comparing each with the photograph. Her patience is at last rewarded. She finds a man who resembles the photo and trails him. He turns into a restaurant and begins an earnest conversation with the cashier. Sue stands outside watching them and taking notes. When the cashier turns around and Sue gets a look at her ugly face she tears up her notes in disgust. There was surely no evidence in that. Her quarry tells the cashier: "Have your daughter communicate with me at once," and leaves. Waldo sees Sue waiting outside the restaurant. When she trails her man down the street, Waldo is overcome with jealousy and follows after. Her quarry goes to his office and Sue, finding the door locked, resolves to get in some other way. Closely watched by Waldo, she gets to the top of an adjoining building and walks out on some wires which lead to the office window opposite. Halfway across she loses her balance, and falls, catching her toes on two stories below. There she hangs until the wire breaks and she falls headfirst toward the pavement. She goes through the brick pavement. Waldo pulls her out and a huge bump swells on the top of her head. It burst with a loud report which causes a passing chauffeur to think he has blown a tire. Waldo accuses Sue of trying to kill him by falling on him. She resents this with her fist, knocking Waldo across the walk. He then collides with a horse, which he carries over with him. She goes into the office building again and a passing officer arrests Waldo for cruelty to animals. A messenger boy leaves her victim's door open and Sue slips inside and hides behind a screen just in time to hear him tell a girl over the phone, "Meet me at the parsonage and we'll be married at once." He hurries out, and Sue calls her client and tells her that her husband is a bigamist and to hurry to the parsonage. She starts there on the run herself, picking up a cop on the way. The suspected bigamist arrives at the parsonage with his intended bride and the marriage ceremony is almost completed when Sue and the cop burst in and place him under arrest. He objects but Sue scoffs at him. Her client rushes in and confronts the captive. With one look she dismisses him saying "That is not my husband; I never saw him before." and Sue realizes that she has trailed the wrong man.
- Being ten minutes late for dinner, the poor Window Dresser, refused admittance to his home by his aggressive spouse, is compelled to spend the night on the front porch. After a sleepless night he wearily wends his way to work and we next see him attempting to drape an elaborate gown about the waxen image of a beautiful maiden in a store window, upon which he has already placed the most dainty lingerie. He finds the effort too much for him, and has an inspiration. He casts the gown aside and in its stead covers the lady of wax with a more easily adjusted opera cloak. He falls asleep and has a terrible vision of his nagging wife and pleasant dreams of the waxen image, which comes to life. After dreaming of many adventures in which the wax image and his nagging wife play the stellar parts, he awakens to find himself wrestling with the figure which he has upset in his delirium.
- A widow and a widower are neighbors, one owning a cat and the other a dog, and when the animals quarrel, the owners follow suit.
- The private trials of a young chap who has managed to have himself elected or appointed a judge and who uses his position to make his future father-in-law listen to reason after the old gentleman has refused to let his daughter marry the man of her choice. Father-in-law breaks the liquor law in company with a bunch of chorus girls. The judge finds it out and has him brought into court. When he realizes the situation, the prisoner is ready to say "Heaven bless you, my children."
- An artist becomes involved with a model whose husband is a husky sailor.
- The competition between a rural jitney bus and a trolley car include lifting passengers onto cars with a derrick.