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- Fay, a wealthy young lady, is in love with Ernest True, a lawyer. Ernest acts as Fay's trustee and he holds several valuable bonds for her. These are kept in the office safe. Mr. Duke, a villainous fellow, wants to win Fay's hand, and he plots to get the bonds out of Ernest's hands, accuse him of misappropriating them and thus win Fay over. He hires a crook to help him and they make an attempt to rob Ernest's safe, but are almost caught in the act by Fay and Ernest and are forced to beat it. Ernest is suspicious and hires Max, the famous detective, to guard his office. Max hits upon a plan to catch Mr. Duke and the crook if they should dare to make another attempt to rob the safe. He removes all papers and valuables and locks himself in with the intention of giving Mr. Duke a surprise if he should succeed in getting the safe open. Duke and the crook get into the office, but do not attempt to open the safe; they take it with them by way of the window. A policeman in the street below thinks they are safe movers and helps keep the crowd back. They take the safe to a secluded spot and proceed to bore a hole through the door, they then push a stick of dynamite through the hole. The dynamite is connected to a fuse. Max, in the safe, just saves his life by cutting the fuse before it burns down to the explosive. When a second fuse is put through, Max lights it from the inside. It burns back out, and, while Duke and the crook are looking for another match, it comes in contact with some carelessly placed powder. Duke and the crook are blown out of the window. They land in front of the pursuing police, who have been led by Fay and Ernest in a chase after the missing safe. The arrest is made. Max is rescued from the safe and is proclaimed a great man.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jim and Jed, rivals for the hand of Nell, both ask her father's consent. She is in love with the latter, who performs brilliantly upon the piano. But her father favors Jim, who aspires to become a great singer. It is decided to let the matter rest six months, and then try out the suitors on the strength of their musical abilities. Jim learns only too soon that never will he become a Caruso. Chancing upon an Italian laborer, however, who has the voice of an opera singer, he arranges for Tony to act as his proxy in the forthcoming tryout. On the evening of the contest, the Italian, concealed behind a curtain, sings while Jim goes through the motions in dumb show, and the pianist is eclipsed. All is well, until Tony is attracted to the kitchen by the maid. There he partakes of punch and is moved to sing on his own account. The sounds penetrate to the parlor. Jim's ruse is laid bare. And Nell starts in taking lessons on the piano from Jed.
- Mr. Hadley is sought by a heart-sick bride who pleads with him to secure her a divorce. Ethel, meanwhile, has been invited out to luncheon by a new beau. She returns with a necklace which he has presented to her, and when the unhappy wife emerges from the private office, she instantly recognizes Ethel's latest ornament as the jewels which her faithless husband had stolen from her that very morning. She hastens to enlighten Ethel, and they conspire to lure Mr. Jones to the office to visit the stenographer. He rises to the bait, and then Ethel uses her powers on him to such good purpose that Hadley, watching with the wife from the inner office, considers the evidence sufficient to start divorce proceedings at once.
- Mr. Wallack, an avaricious person, loses his wallet containing much money and valuable papers. His wife insists that he offer a reward for the return of it. Bobo, a hobo, finds the wallet, and afraid to examine its contents in the open, he hides in a dog kennel. The kennel is the residence of Mr. Wallack's great Dane, and at about this time Mr. Wallack decides to tie his dog up for the night. Bobo is forced to remain in his hiding place. In the morning Genevieve, a lady hobo, dismounts from a freight train She sees a man tacking up the reward signs in reference to Mr. Wallack's wallet. To avoid a passing policeman, Genevieve ducks down an alley just in time to see Bobo come from the dog kennel, Mr. Wallack having taken his dog for a morning stroll. Genevieve finds an empty wallet in the kennel, and comparing the name on it with that mentioned in the reward signs, she decides that she is on the trail of the thief. She follows Bobo. The enterprising policeman has followed Genevieve as a suspicious character. Genevieve traces Bobo to Mr. Wallack's woodshed. She succeeds in recovering the money and locking Bobo in an empty trunk. The policeman catches Genevieve with the wallet and the money and immediately takes her off to jail where Genevieve explains to the captain that she has locked the real thief in the trunk. The captain takes Genevieve back to catch Bobo in the trunk. It happens that Mr. Wallack and his gardener already found Bobo in his hiding place and they have started for the police station. It looks bad for Genevieve when she and the officer arrive at the woodshed and find no trunk. Things are straightened out when they go back to the station, where they find Mr. Wallack and the police opening the trunk. Genevieve gets the reward.
- A fire-eating Italian is inclined to neglect his wife and spend most of his time buying wine for chorus-girl Trixie. The Italian's wife notifies Hadley, her lawyer, that she wishes to have divorce papers served on her husband as soon as Hadley is able to get evidence against the fickle man. Hadley instructs his stenographer Ethel to disguise herself as a man and follow the Italian to the café and watch his actions. Trixie, the chorus girl, happens to have more than one admirer, and one of these takes her to the café. The Italian sees this and almost starts a riot, but the frightened admirer saves his skin by turning Trixie over to his friend Ed. Then Ethel, in man's attire, arrives at the café and sees Ed--her sweetheart--with Trixie. Trixie thinks Ethel is a man and flirts with her; Ethel keeps up the flirtation to get even with Ed. Things turn about in such a way that the Italian, upon entering the café, sees his adorable Trixie in Ethel's company. A quarrel starts and Ethel's identity is disclosed to Ed. He comes to her assistance and Ethel has the pleasure of serving a summons on the Italian.
- A wealthy young man and his clerk discuss their engagements with the mutual interest of all lovers. By accident they exchange engagement rings. When the rich man's sweetheart discovers that he has given her a cheap imitation she breaks the engagement. After much amusing trouble everything is straightened and happiness is restored. Fay Tincher is seen as the clerk's sweetheart, her lover being Elmer Booth. Chet Whitney plays the role of the rich lover. A good comedy well acted. - Motion Picture News 1915.
- Horde, a gentleman smuggler, receiving a tip from his confederate, Swagger Tim, that he is to be arrested on leaving the ship, contrives to conceal some uncut diamonds in the handle of Mrs. Riche's umbrella. As it happens, the ship's officer sees him, and though the custom's inspectors can find nothing on Horde and are obliged to let him go at the wharf, the officer advises Schly, a detective, about the umbrella, telling him to keep his eye on Horde. The next day, at home, Mrs. Riche asks her maid, Tootner, to glue on the loose handle of her umbrella. The maid, on finding the uncut diamonds, and supposing the handle to be "all busted" inside, dumps the fragments into the waste basket. Then she fastens on the handle and puts the umbrella in the rack. Mr. Riche comes downstairs and takes the umbrella out with him. While standing unsuspectingly on the steps, he is watched by Horde from across the street. Schly, the detective, \\behind a tree, is watching Horde. Meanwhile, Swagger Tim has entered the house and is trying to recover the gems. Tootner hears him in the dining room and sees him start toward the hall. Mrs. Riche, at the same minute, goes into the hall closet for a coat, and the maid, a moment later, taking her mistress for the burglar, slams and locks the closet door. She tells Mr. Riche that she has caught the thief and he comes inside to phone the police, leaving the umbrella on the porch. Horde makes a dash, gets the umbrella, but is caught by Schly. Meanwhile Swagger Tim is hiding. The police arrive, and when the closet is opened and Mrs. Riche released in a fainting state. Tootner is fired on the spot. Swagger Tim, in trying to escape through a window is captured by Schly, who drags both smugglers before the Riche family and explains to them about the umbrella. On pulling off the handle, however, no diamonds are to be found. Then Tootner remembers. She rushes to the waste basket. The diamonds are recovered, and Tootner is handed back her job.
- Bill is addicted to cigarettes. When Mr. Hadley has been given a present of a large box of monogrammed cigarettes. Bill helps himself. Later in the day Mr. Hadley leaves his gold watch on his desk and Bill accidentally knocks it off onto the floor. He hastily takes it to the jewelers to be repaired. Mr. Hadley misses the watch and supposes it to have been stolen. He also misses some of the monogrammed cigarettes and inquires of Ethel if she knows anything about it. Bill overhears Ethel being quizzed and slyly slips his remaining cigarettes into Ethel's purse. Later he takes some more for himself and is afraid to tell of the broken watch. The police are notified and told to look for someone smoking or having in his possession the missing monogrammed cigarettes. Bill, smoking in the alley, is relieved of his cigarette by a sneak thief who is promptly arrested when seen smoking it. Ethel meets a young man and in taking out her handkerchief the hidden cigarettes fall to the ground and are appropriated by the young man who is also arrested with Ethel as an accomplice. At the office, Mr. Hadley finds Bill giving a smoker to his boy friends and the mystery of the "stolen" watch is satisfactorily explained.
- Ketcher, a professional dog thief, steals a valuable dog from Mrs. Dapper and after that everybody gets involved, including Mr. Hadley, Ethel, Ed, her sweetheart, Bill and the cop. The intricate action consists in the rapid and surreptitious switching about of several stolen dogs by the clever Ketcher, until nobody can tell which dog is whose, and everybody is accusing everybody else of being a thief. The police court is helpless to disentangle the mix-up. But in the end Mrs. Dapper gets back her dog. Ethel and her young man are reconciled, and as a finishing touch, a fierce bulldog fastens himself to Bill's trousers.
- 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.
- Hadley engages a new office boy by the name of Bill. Ethel comes down that morning in a new skirt which she displays to Mabel across the hall. She decides that it is too long, and is wondering how she can get it shortened in time to keep a twelve o'clock luncheon engagement, when Bill comes out of the inner office bound for the tailor's with his boss's ink-stained trousers. Ethel gives him her skirt and tells him to hurry. Bill finds the tailor out and decides to make good by doing the repairing himself. Meanwhile, Hadley and Ethel, their nether persons clad in newspapers, are suffering many embarrassments, which finally lead to a visit from the police. But in the nick of time Bill returns with the missing garments, though what he has done to them, under any other circumstances, would have cost him his job.
- The town marshal is in love with Susie, the daughter of Silas Crank. Susie has another admirer: Willie, a friend of Judge Short, who is running for re-election; Silas Crank is his political rival. The town marshal makes life miserable for Willie, and Willie resolves to get even. He does so by purchasing a chicken, then pretending to steal it. The ostentatious marshal arrests him but is discomforted when Susie comes to Willie's rescue and proves that the chicken was not stolen. Silas Crank has prepared to give his followers a banquet, but when the friends gather, Silas learns from his wife that the refrigerator containing the food has been stolen. In the park, Susie and Willie see a tramp walking away with the refrigerator. They notify the marshal, who refuses to believe them, having been fooled once before by Willie and the chicken. Susie and Willie meet Silas and his followers. They tell them of seeing a tramp with the missing ice box. In the meantime, the tramp has carried off the contents of the refrigerator in his arms. The marshal meets the tramp and takes the stuff away from him, and ordering him out of town, he sits down to enjoy a quiet repast. He is caught in the act by the angry Silas and crowd. The marshal is disgraced. The disappointed crowd leaves Silas and rallies to Judge Short. Willie and Susie are too busy making love to be worried about the outcome of the election.
- 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.
- Simon Jenks, always out of cash, falls in love with Bridgeen, an enterprising cook. "Sure and when you'll be having a nice, tidy sum in the bank one of these days," says she, "I'll think about it, maybe." Jenks is naturally opposed to work. He put on some old togs and a pair of blue goggles placards himself with "Help the Blind," and succeeded in collecting quite a bit of change. Meanwhile Clancy his rival, is cutting out Jenks with the cook. The latter sees Clancy calling on Bridgeen off his beat and gives the police the tip. The cop is caught, degraded and transferred to a lonely part of town where saloons are not. Bridgeen turns him down. Jenks marries the cook. She refuses to work anymore, and Jenks is forced to sham blind man again. He avoids the neighborhood where he is already known to the police, and in picking an unfamiliar quarter of the town, gets into Clancy's precinct. His ex-rival recognizes him, beats him up and hauls him in. Jenks has to send for his wife to get out of jail, and is sentenced by Bridgeen to work for a living the rest of his days.
- 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. Henpeck, being anxious to join the boys, arranges with two pals to disguise themselves as policemen and he will feign insanity. At a certain signal, they are to rush in and take him into custody. Meanwhile a crook, pursued by two cops, takes refuge in Mr. Henpeck's kitchen. Mrs. Henpeck gets wise to hubby's game, locks him in the kitchen, and gives the signal herself. The crook forces Henpeck to exchange clothes with him, so that when the friends arrive they find themselves looking into the muzzle of a thirty-eight gun. When the real policemen reach the house they find henpeck dressed in the crook's clothes and decide that he is their man. They rush him off to the cooler, and after much business of mistaken identity, he finally is released, promising never again to try to put one over on his clever spouse.
- 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.
- 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.
- A very wealthy heiress decides to make her home in Quietville and realizing her immense fortune in jewels as well as money needs protection, she has the police stationed around the house. Of course, the news travels and attracts the yeggs as well as the Anarchist, haters of society. The yeggs decide to represent themselves as police so visit the station house and after applying the poison needle to the sleeping policemen don their clothes and send their pal to rob the house of the heiress. They then wait to get word from him that his job is complete so they can help him carry off the loot without being suspected. In the meantime a citizen oversees the anarchists plotting and phones the police. The impostors, thinking it is their pal hasten to the house mentioned and run into the anarchists' den who have been previously informed of their coming. Alas, the fake police are met with a warm reception. In the meantime the heiress phones. The police who by this time have recovered. They hasten over to her home and catch the crook at work. The anarchists chase the impostors back to the police station and end their schemes with the aid of a bomb. When the police return to the station with their prisoner they find their pals gone on to the sweet hereafter.
- 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.
- Only one drink of whiskey is left in Red Gulch, and the pack train won't arrive for thirty days. The one drink, which isn't to be had for love or money, reposes in a bottle on a table in the middle of the barroom, guarded by twelve armed men. Desperate Rudolph makes up his mind that the whiskey shall be his. He rises in the morning, kisses his wife and his son, Little Willie, and starts out for his career of crime. Creeping into the barroom, he forces the guard to line up. Then, with a single bullet, he shoots down the whole twelve like a row of ninepins. Rudolph stands in the road, getting ready to drink the whiskey, when he is seen by the sheriff. The officer of the law gallops past and snatches the bottle. At a signal from Rudolph, his desperate gang surround him. They give chase, wrenching the bottle from the sheriff who, by a clever trick, escapes alive. The sheriff rides hot-footed to the headquarters of the vigilantes, and all give pursuit. With Desperate Rudolph and his gang in one wagon, and the vigilantes in another, the race leads over a high bluff. Rudolph's vehicle gets on fire, and reaching the top first, he and his men pile out and push the wagon over on their adversaries. The sheriff, however, is not to be so lightly vanquished. The vigilantes scale the bluff and a brisk fight ensues, in which Rudolph and his gang shoot down every member of the opposition. Victorious at last, Rudolph prepares to enjoy his whiskey. But private monopoly of the treasure causes mutiny in the gang, and he is forced to shoot all his followers before he can have his drink unmolested. After long tribulation, he stands with the liquor almost to his lips. While his father has been cavorting about the country, little Willie has spent the day in the orchard, thoughtfully making the most of a windfall of green apples. His mother finds him, doubled up, and seizing him, starts out in frantic search of aid. They reach Rudolph just as he is putting the bottle to his lips. There is nothing to do but pour the whiskey down little Willie. But this is too much for Rudolph. He falls in an apoplectic fit, and gives up the ghost.
- Bill, the office boy, was about as untidy a young man as one could imagine until Genevieve Reilly, a girl of his own age from another office, attracted his attention. From then on Bill gradually transformed himself into a "reg'l'r dude," as jealous Izzy Katz, a fellow office boy termed him. Bill finally summoned enough courage to ask Genevieve out to lunch. All went merrily until Izzy and some of the other boys poked their heads through the door and began to guy Bill unmercifully. In his anger Bill hurled the dishes and food at his tormentors who promptly "slung" them back. Both Bill and his "lady friend" were ejected, but Bill was somewhat solaced when he discovered that in their excitement the restaurant waiter and cashier forgot to collect for the lunch.
- The Duke de Touche is wanted by the police. He and his confederate, Lotta Kale, have been hiding at a hotel resort. Miss Kale learns that a detective is on the trail of the duke and warns him to get away. He, however, not caring to leave the place where business for the two crooks is good, decides to have his beard shaved off so the detective will not recognize him. He goes to Beppo the barber, who does a neat job. The Duke informs Beppo that he is returning to Europe. The rich Miss Kale long has fascinated the ambitious barber from a distance. He now plots to win her. Disguising himself in a beard, Beppo goes to the hotel, meaning to impersonate the Duke. However, he mistakes Fay, the manicurist, for the heiress and gets in deep before he discovers his blunder. The barber is accused of the villainies of the real Duke. He sits on a freshly painted bench and is forced to borrow the first pair of trousers he can find. They happen to belong to the Duke. Beppo is arrested with his pockets loaded with valuables. But the Duke makes the fatal mistake of accusing Beppo of having stolen his trousers. Then the victim owns up that said garments are not his, and proves, to all concerned, that he is indubitably only a barber, and the Duke pays the penalty.
- Mr. Fizz runs a soda counter. His fascinating daughter Fay is engaged to Gus, one of the soda-counter clerks. Will Steel, the other clerk, is terribly jealous of Gus, and succeeds in laying upon his rival the blame of thefts from the cash register. Mr. Fizz breaks off the engagement and fires Gus. The disconsolate young man sees a jitney bus unloading a crowd of passengers. He is filled with secret longing for a bus of his own with which to earn his daily bread. Just then, along comes a certain crook who has stolen Mr. Fizz's car. Anxious to get it off his hands, he lets Gus have it at a low figure. The former clerk starts immediately in the jitney business. Steel and Fay, on their afternoon off, decide to take a bus ride. They board Gus's machine. Their driver, in his goggles, and coated to his ears, is not recognized by them. But Gus sees his beloved Fay in Steel's company and determines to drive the car into eternity. The mad ride starts and the jitney lands in a canal. Fay's escort betrays his cowardice by leaving her to drown. Gus rescues Fay. Steel is pinched for stealing Mr. Fizz's automobile.
- Trixie is about to enter the bathing girls' parade and win first prize, but she has no bathing suit. Both Elmer and Chester are stuck on Trixie and they both race to a store to secure a classy suit for her. Chester gets back first with a striking costume, and Trixie is delighted to such an extent that when Elmer arrives a few moments later, she gives him the cold shoulder. Elmer, much dejected, wanders off alone to console himself. It happens that Fay and her sweetheart, Perk, have come in from the country to see the ocean. Perk has left Fay alone for a few moments and is amusing himself tossing rings at one of the beach concessions, the object being to win a pair of hose for Fay. Elmer sees Fay and he flirts, then gets acquainted and finally presents her with the bathing suit and suggests that she enter the parade and win the prize. This idea appeals to Fay, who is a bit peeved at being neglected by Perk. She dons the bathing suit and it fits her so neatly that she appears to be the most attractive girl on the beach. Chester sees her and falls immediately. He turns Trixie down and tries to win Fay but is greatly disappointed upon learning that Elmer is the lucky man. Chester has now lost out all around and, being at heart a villain, he tries several mean tricks to prevent Fay from winning the contest. He fails. Fay is presented with a check, the first prize. She and Elmer set out to have a good time. In the meantime Perk has missed his sweetheart. He meets her with Elmer and Fay introduces Perk as her fiancé. Perk assumes authority and takes possession of Fay, also the check. Elmer remonstrates, but to no avail. Perk walks off with Fay. Elmer meets Chester and they patch up their troubles and combine forces with the intention of beating up the country guy. They attack Perk, but he saves them the trouble of giving him a beating by gently tossing them off the pier into the ocean.
- Tony, a printer, is affected by the love-making in the air. He tries to fascinate Maryola, the cook at his boarding-house, but is repulsed with a shower of pots and pans. He butts in upon two happy couples, who prove to him that they are in no mood to be disturbed, and in revenge on returning to the printing office he interchanges the dates of the wedding ceremonies in the local paper. The nervous grooms forget the hour of their weddings, refer to the newspaper notices, and on arriving at the church each meets the wrong young woman. Their common misfortune, however, draws them together and they are married. In the café the interchanged couples take adjoining tables, and when Tony enters the grooms vie as to which shall outdo the other in giving the printer the one good feed of his life. Soon Tony begins to feel his oats. He returns to Maryola and, braving a volley of kitchen utensils, seizes her in his arms. This time she is conquered.
- Mr. Drummer leaves his wife at home to make a short business trip. On his way to the station he sees a thief take a purse from Mrs. Gardner, who is asleep on a park bench. He gallantly pursues the thief and recovers the purse, but to his surprise, he is arrested as the guilty one and thrown into jail for sixty days. Mrs. Drummer, lonesome at home, and thinking that hubby has deserted her, decides to rent their home and move to a hotel. She succeeds in leasing the place to Mr. and Mrs. Grinder. Mr. Drummer gets out of jail and has sent word to his wife that he shall soon be home. Mrs. Grinder receives the messenger and tells him to take the note to Mrs. Drummer at the hotel. Drummer takes on a few drinks before arriving at his home and not knowing that his wife has moved, he enters the house, making a lot of noise, and goes to his room. Grinder is working late at his office. Mrs. Grinder has retired and when she hears Drummer banging around, she thinks that her hubby has come home drunk. Drummer, in pajamas, knocks on his "wife's" door with the idea of squaring himself. The door is opened a few inches and he gets a punch on the head. Grinder returns from the office, tired and worn from labor. He removes his shoes that he may not disturb his wife at such a late hour. Upon seeing the light in her room he decides to kiss her good night. To his surprise he gets a bump on the head with a pitcher. Drummer peers out of the front room in time to see Grinder move away from the "wife's" door. He now understands why his wife doesn't care to see him; another man has come into her life. He goes to dig out his revolver. Grinder sees Drummer and also suspects his wife. He gets his gun, and a hot time follows as the two deluded men chase one another through the house. Mrs. Grinder joins in the chase, thinking her husband insane. Mrs. Drummer receives her husband's message at the hotel, and realizing that he will return to the old home, she rushes there to head him off. She arrives in time to save Drummer from landing back in jail as a dangerous citizen.
- 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.
- The Stenogs decide to give a ball and call upon Ethel to use her influence in getting Mr. Hadley to be the guest of honor. After finally consenting he sends Bill out to procure him a proper masquerade costume and notifies his sweetheart that he will meet her at the dance, at the same time describing his costume so she will recognize him. In the meantime, Ethel's fellow calls and would like to take Ethel but has no costume. Bill, quick to think gives him Mr. Hadley's and runs around to get Hadley another one. At the dance, Ethel's fellow is taken for Hadley and Hadley is taken for Ethel's fellow. Complications reach a serious stage when it comes time to unmask. After much trouble Bill explains how it came to happen and Hadley decides that in the future he will let the Stenogs have their dance without him.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mr. Hadley censures Ethel for being late for work. Ed, her admirer, purchases an alarm clock so that Ethel will get up early in the morning. In the meantime Sylves, an excitable Italian, calls on Hadley, threatening to blow him unless he discontinues the divorce case that Hadley has started for Mrs. Sylves, because of Sylves' cruelty. Sylves hurries home, and, using the alarm clock for an infernal machine, proceeds to load it. After tying his wife so that she cannot give the alarm, Sylves leaves for Hadley's office. On his way he meets a boy who delivers the clock. By a coincidence. Ed's clock and Sylves' arrive at the same time and get into wrong hands, Ethel getting Sylves' and Hadley getting Ethel's. About this time a broken-down opera singer calls on Hadley, trying to have his contract contested, but poor Hadley thinks his mission has something to do with the plot. After much suspense and suffering on the part of Hadley, Mrs. Sylves gains her freedom and notifies the police, who arrive two minutes before the time set for the infernal machine to go off. It is hurled through a window, landing in the back of the office where Sylves is waiting to hear the result of his villainy, and he gets his just deserts.
- 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.
- 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.