- When Richard Hudson receives a pair of silk pajamas from a friend in China, he is unaware that they are bewitched and that whoever wears them will be transformed into someone else. Richard puts them on and is transformed into a fierce Chinese warrior, causing his butler Jenkins to quit drinking. The next night, Richard's close friend Jack Billings sends his brother Francis to spend the night, and upon donning the pajamas, Francis becomes Jack's sweetheart, Frances Kirkland, giving Richard a series of shocks. Next, Jack becomes a victim of the pajamas, is locked up as a burglar, and is given a black eye by his own father for "impersonating his son." Complications pile up until Colonel Kirkland, the friend who sent the pajamas, arrives from China and clears up the mystery.
- Richard Hudson, a clubman, by mistake sends a friend in China cheap cigars, intending to send good ones. In revenge, the friend sends him silk pajamas. Hudson is unconscious of the fact that the pajamas are bewitched, that the silk was the property of an Empress, and anyone wearing them becomes transformed into someone else. The pajamas fit all wearers, and as soon as the top button is fastened, the color changes to black. Dick puts them on and becomes a savage-looking Chinaman. His man Jenkins tries to put the intruder out. Hudson cannot understand his valet's manner. He overpowers Jenkins, and locks him up in a closet, releasing him next morning. By that time, once more in his own clothes, he has resumed his normal appearance. Jenkins, believing that the experience is an hallucination, signs the pledge. Dick has promised his friend Jack Billings to entertain his brother Francis. Francis arrives when Dick is out and puts on the pink pajamas and is changed to Frances Kirkland, a girl from China visiting his sister Elizabeth. Dick is amazed to find a pretty girl in his apartment. He and Jenkins go out, leaving her alone. Next morning, waiting at the pier with a box of flowers, he finds only an unknown youth. Jack Billings puts on the pajamas and assumes the likeness of Frances' father, Colonel Kirkland. He makes a disturbance, is arrested and thrown into a cell. Jack sends for his father, Judge Billings, but the Judge, not recognizing him, refuses to do anything. Jack finally steals a tramp's clothes and escapes. Dick has been invited to the Billings' to meet Frances. He rushes up, speaks in endearing terms, and mentions their former meeting. She is mystified, and when he speaks of the black silk pajamas she is furious. She is surprised to learn later that he is Dick Hudson. Not understanding but, "willing to forgive a Harvard man almost anything," she consents to talk to Dick. He asks the Judge for her hand, believing she is Elizabeth Billings. The Judge consents, as Elizabeth is not especially attractive. Col. Kirkland arrives on a surprise visit. Dick attacks him, thinking he is the man who has created a disturbance in his apartment. Frances pleads for him. Then the Colonel tells the history of the pajamas and Dick asks the right father for the right girl. Together they burn the haunted pajamas.
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