- Things go too far for a group of bullies, when Raymond, a 12-year old boy with a troubled life, who they make fun of and tease for their amusement is hit by a car.
- Adele breaks her doll and brings it to Merle, her mother, to mend. While Merle is doing this, little Adele dances in the street with the rest of the children. Merle, recalling old memories, goes to a trunk and picks out a ballet dress. An old picture falls out. As she looks at this, she cannot restrain the sobs. She bows on the edge of the trunk and the scene fades. At the feast of a rich couple, Merle, the ballet girl, is to dance. After the dance, the little ballet girl is tired and sits on a divan in an adjoining room. The fiancé, Ralph Hilton, talks to her. Confidentially, she tells him the story of her life. Her parents were circus people who both died when she was young. A middle-aged clown took the child and taught her to become a ballet dancer; they were happy until he died. She was forced to dance for a living. The fiancée goes to look for Ralph, and seeing him with the ballet girl, quarrels with him; the next day she returns his ring. Ralph becomes interested in Merle and becomes a steady caller. Later they are married and he takes her to his beautiful home and she soon realizes with sadness that she is a millionaire's toy, dancing for him when it is his whim. One day Merle falls and breaks her ankle. She will never be able to dance again and thinking that is all the attraction she has for Ralph, she leaves him without clue as to her whereabouts. Then came baby Adele, and the hard fight to keep starvation away. With a start Merle awakes. Adele is beside her, delighted with the dress which she wants to try on. Merle lets her do so. The dress just fits, it being the one the clown had made for her when he taught her to dance. That evening Merle is sick. While her mother is sleeping Adele puts on the little dress, her ragged coat and goes along the streets to the hotel where she has seen all the pretty ladies and men go. She slips in and takes off the ragged coat and airily flies across the floor, attracting a good deal of attention; it is too much for the poor hungry child. Her dance finished, she falls. Among the group is a handsome man who rushes to the child and gives orders to those standing around. When the child revives he questions her. She tells him she has come to earn money for her sick mother. He takes her home and there sees Merle, his wife. Merle and her husband go back once more to the beautiful home Ralph has occupied alone for years.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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