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- Winnie only has eyes for Jack but her father hates the very sight of him. In fact, he hates him so much that when he hears that his daughter is planning a date while he's out, he decides to hide in the bushes in order to clobber the lad with a club. Winnie manages to warn Jack and once he is in the house, they settle on a plan. Winnie's neighbor is a minister and he is under quarantine for smallpox. Winnie is in possession of some red ink. Unfortunately, Father sees the duo getting all spotted up and decides to teach them a lesson by having the local policeman force them into quarantine for real-and claim that he is infected with the disease himself. Winnie and Jack are naturally horrified at being exposed to the contagious policeman but once he leaves, they realize that there's nothing stopping them from getting married. After all, the minister's contagiousness is a bit of a moot point, so they ask him to come over and wed them. It all ends in a whirlwind of revelations (nobody actually has smallpox, as it turns out).
- Father objects to Jack, so Jack dresses up as a butler to gain entrance into Mary's home.
- Daisy is a musical comedy star. Her manager decides to put her in a rural drama, and sends her to a farm to study types and acquire the rube dialect. Down on the farm Hiram, the hired man, is in love with Tildy, the farmer's daughter. A handsome new hired man flirts with Daisy, makes a hit with Tildy, and Hiram is ditched. He tells his troubles to Daisy, who takes a hand in the game. She coaches Tildy to make violent love to the new hired man, who, tired of the game, spurns her. Daisy arranges that Pa, Ma and Hiram witness the hired man's perfidy. The hired man makes a sudden departure, Tildy and Hiram are reconciled, while Daisy returns to start rehearsals for the drama. When the leading man of the company appears he turns out to be the hired man, who had also gone to the country for "atmosphere." He gets a shock when he discovers that Daisy is the leading lady. Tildy's pa arrives and starts to clean up with the actor-hired-man, saying he has broken Tildy's heart. Hiram and Tildy, just married, come on the scene, and disaster is averted. Both Daisy and the leading man had got enough "atmosphere" to put the play across, and rehearsals begin.
- A young couple head to Mexico to elope, but as they get closer to the border they realize they're running out of gas.
- Billie is at a resort with her girlfriends when they spot Jack, a handsome playwright. The girls bet Billie that she can't win him over. She dresses herself as a young widow and is winning his affections, but her girlfriends spill the secret of the bet.
- Billie went up the "Angel's Flight" in Los Angeles and hubby went after, for he was jealous of the music "professor," who was teaching her the latest livery stable "blues" on the saxophone. Hubby threw the "professor" out of the house and the saxophone followed after.
- Jay and Billie, disguised as Buster Brown and his dog, went to the Brown's masquerade party. Jay loved his fireside and rest. At the first opportunity he escapes from the ball room. The sight of a tramp suggested an idea to the hero and a few dollars convinced the Knight of the Ties, so he put on his disguise and joined the party. After having visited the refreshment room the tramp got into a fight with one of the guests and behaved with Billie and all the others like a real dog. And in the meantime Jay was sleeping. Finally Mrs. Brown called up the police department. In the meantime Jay had changed clothes with the tramp and, disguised again, walks into the ballroom. He finds Billie sore at him and a policeman who wants to take him to the police station. Jay escapes and after a lively chase enters the Brown's home again. The tramp, too, returns - is recognized by Jay, who explains to Billie.
- The wedding party is waiting for the bride, but Mary (Billie Rhodes) is visiting a friend who has a sick baby, and the baby's malady is diagnosed as smallpox and the house with the complete party is quarantined. The groom-to-be recalls that Mary is visiting a friend, and not knowing the facts he calls on her and the result is that he is cornered in the quarantine too. The diagnosis was made by a disappointed lover of Mary's who had been called in professionally. A little later, however, another doctor says the child is simply suffering from prickly heat and the quarantine is raised and wedding bells ring.
- The fact that Billie endeavors to teach her friend's husband to dance, without the knowledge of friend wife, almost results in the wreckage of the marital ship, but when wifie learns that her husband can dance, matters are set aright.
- Mary's sweetheart, Jack, is in the village jail for speeding, and Mary's dad, who didn't like Jack, saw that he was kept there. Mary captured two burglars and forced them to liberate Jack and put dad in jail. They then proceed to smoke out father with a smudge-pot until he consents to the wedding.
- Mary gets caught in Jack's bedroom on his unexpected return from a business trip, and when Jack's family walks in he announces that they have been married. After the family have extended their blessing, Jack and Mary leave via the window to find the nearest preacher so that Jack's story may be made good.
- Billie is strong for Fred, but she catches him flirting with a chum and resolves to administer drastic treatment. The next time her lover calls he is informed that Miss Billie is entertaining a caller and is compelled to wait on the porch. A dapper young man eventually leaves the house and Fred makes a second attempt to get in. He is informed that Miss Billie is expecting a foreign gentleman, who arrives shortly and stays much too long. When he departs there is a suspicious powder mark on his shoulder. The strangers have both seen Billie, garbed in her brother's clothes. When Fred is admitted, remorseful, penitent and jealous, Billie keeps him waiting while she dons her dress. The plot is revealed by a trouser leg which protrudes beneath her skirt, but Fred admits that Billie "put one over."
- Billie takes it upon herself to raise $500 for charity, much against the advice and pleadings of her fiancé. She starts her subscriptions in the building in which Jay's office is located, and as she proceeds from office to office, meets with a variety of unwelcome invitations to lunch and dinner. Despairing of procuring the subscriptions, she goes to Jay's office and reports her experiences, whereupon he proceeds to administer reprimands to the offending individuals. He eventually settles a damage bill and police court account for some $500, in addition to the check for $100 which he turns over to Billie for "Sweet Charity."
- Mary decides to meet the young man her father has selected as her life mate, but that meeting must take place on terms which she will lay down. Mary pictures the young man, whom she has never seen, as indolent and absolutely untrustworthy, who sees only her dollars and who doubtless would not trouble himself about her were she penniless. She, therefore, poses as a hard-working sewing girl and, "overcome by starvation and overwork," she faints right in his path. Contrary to her prediction, however. Jack carries her to her home, stocks the larder with the necessities of life and eventually learns the girl's identity, when all goes well.
- Mary is in love with Jack, a daring young aviator, but father favors an elderly suitor possessed of wealth. Persuading her girl chum to act as a vamp, the aged suitor is captivated and transfers his affections to Mary's friend, who promises to marry him. When father learns the situation, he reluctantly consents to Jack as a son-in-law, and a double wedding is arranged. Mary is married first, but the second ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of a man accompanied by two children, who wants to know why his wife (Mary's chum) doesn't come home and get his supper ready. The ancient and prospective bridegroom gives up in disgust. Mary's chum goes out to lunch with the alleged husband, who is an accomplice in the plot, while Mary and Jack start on their honeymoon.
- Jack and Mary. an engaged couple, discover each other to be kleptomaniacs. Mary cannot resist the temptation to lift anything from a teaspoon to a tiara, while Jack runs to hats, umbrellas and golf sticks. Mary's Ma's gold vanity case is stolen. Jack thinks Mary stole it; Mary thinks Jack stole it. Each wishing to shield the other, buys a duplicate, and each tries to return the vanity case, confessing theft, when a detective arrives with the original vanity case recovered from the real thief. Jack's efforts to get Mary to take a cure for kleptomania he has bought at the drug store add much to the general hilarity.
- Mary is always stealing her older sister's sweethearts, so she receives orders to keep in the background. She is compelled to dress as a child to give "Sis" a chance. But on the night of the big dance she locks her sister and mother in the room and captures big sister's best beau. When "Sis" escapes she finds her beau's wife has shown up and Mary is forgiven.
- Jack, who is engaged to Billie, is attracted by Vera, and makes an appointment to meet her. He pleads a headache in order to keep the date, and Billie gives him a pill from a box which she finds on the table. Billie tells her mother that she has given one of the pills to Jack, and wild excitement prevails when Billie learns that her mother had substituted bichloride of mercury for the real pills. Billie rushes to Jack's apartment, where she meets his chum, Fred, and tells him of the mistake. Fred calls Jack on the telephone at the Gaylife Café, where he is enjoying himself with Vera. Jack is to return to the apartment, pretend illness, while Fred is to return disguised as a doctor. Billie, however, has called a doctor, who administers strenuous treatment. Jack pays the price of his faithlessness, but Billie never learns, and all ends happily.
- Jack's flirting proclivities get him in trouble. He happens to meet an old sweetheart and declaring himself still single, carries on a clandestine flirtation. Nellie Brown, known to her friends as "Brownie," is the innocent cause of Jack's premature downfall. She writes Jack of her lonesomeness and urges him to dine with her that night. Wifie gets the letter and Jack explains that " Brownie " is a rich bachelor. At this juncture, Jack is dispatched by his office to a neighboring town to close a deal, so the wife decides to keep the dinner engagement with Jack's rich bachelor friend Brownie. And here the trouble commences.
- A lover, in desperately striving to possess the girl he loves in spite of the opposition of her father, persuades her to light a fake fire in her room. Her father, believing the house to be on fire, calls the fire brigade and the lover joins the gang and so wins the girl.
- A young woman's father wants her to marry a man of his choice rather than her own. Her sweetheart, a young doctor, in a plot to win out, has had her carried home, apparently injured from a fall from her horse. He is then sent for to attend her, and effecting a wonderful cure, wins the sympathy of the father and the hand of the maiden.
- Mary is a hard-working little woman, afflicted with a lovable but shiftless brother, Jay, who spends his time flirting and keeping out of a job. Mary decides to get him a regular job, and goes to an employment agency, where she comes in contact with a woman of doubtful age, but girlish tastes and fancies, who owns a confectionery store at the beach. Jay falls hard for the job, with visions of his dapper and white-coated self mixing ice-cream sodas for bevies of beautiful girls. His dream is realized. He becomes a hero of the puppy love class. But the spinster person develops evidences of wild jealousy. It becomes apparent that Jay has been hired more as a male companion than as a dispenser of sodas. The climax comes when she closes the store that Jay may teach her to swim. He eludes the old girl time and again, but she shows up again and again until Mary, on an inspection trip, comes along. He makes a solemn promise that if Mary will but take him away he will go to work and stay there.
- The title, "Their Little Kid" is apt, if the commoner vernacular be recognized in comedy, as doubtless it will be. In its double meaning lies the foundation of the theme, for this young married couple are happy and live in expectation of a substantial windfall from Jack's rich uncle. Uncle wires them one day that he is about to visit them as he is anxious to "see the kid." Thinking uncle means their baby, which so far has not put in an appearance, and fearful of disappointing Uncle, Jack sallies forth to round up a youngster by hook or crook. He first steals one from a nurse in the park, only to discover later that the child is of ebony hue.
- Jack and Mary, newlyweds, are happy until a wire from Jack's uncle, who is a woman hater and has no knowledge of Jack's marriage, informs him of his arrival and of a good job. Eddie, a married friend of Jack, arrives on a visit, and in walks uncle. Mary comes to the parlor, and Jack, hoping to save the situation, introduces Mary as Eddie's wife, much to Mary's dissatisfaction. Mary and Eddie act as two lovers, and the maid, becoming disgusted, quits. On the street she meets uncle and tells him that Mary is married to Jack and not to both the boys, and that she is so disgusted with her mistress' behavior that she quit. Uncle coaxes her to stay, and coming in finds the three friends together. He proposes to Jack to go downtown and "look them over." Mary protests, and uncle tells her to look after her husband, Eddie, and not Jack. Just at this time Gladys, Eddie's real wife, accompanied by her mother, comes to find Eddie. When she discovers Eddie and Mary kissing she starts a row. Her mother comes in and uncle discovers she is his sweetheart of many years ago. All is then explained and the three couples are reunited.
- Jay is being initiated into the Royal Good Fellows Lodge and is cleaning the globes of a street lamp post. Billie is on a hunt for a maid. The employment agency cannot secure one. Billie spies Jay at work and offers him a job as butler for her new tenant. Jay turns her down. Jay's initiation is followed by a banquet and afterward the boys go out for a good time. Tim, a policemen, dozing on his beat, becomes their victim and in the resulting chase Jay becomes the particular prey of the irate cop. Meanwhile, Billie has assumed the duties of maid. As she goes to the kitchen, Jay, whose line of retreat has led to Billie's kitchen door, leans against the door to rest. Billie opens it, Jay tumbles in and Billie makes him take the job of butler. At dinner, Jay's sister is a guest, she recognizes him but remains silent. Jay is much wrought up and drops his service tray, flees to the kitchen, finds Tim courting the cook, and jumps at the opportunity to fight. The arrival of a real maid and butler brings peace to everybody and Cupid does some initiating of his own.
- Father, who had promised $5,000 to Jay, his son-in-law, as soon as he has a cozily furnished home, writes he is coming for a visit on the very day the unpaid for furniture is being taken away. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are moving and the truck driver inquires the way of Jay, who directs them to his own house. The furniture is delivered, father arrives and is just about to present the young couple with the promised $5,000 when the Smiths come in and have all the furniture removed. Father understands, and, admiring the nerve of Jay, promises the newlyweds to buy them furniture they will be able to keep.
- Mary is in finishing school and resorts to many clever tricks to outwit the rules and regulations set up my Miss Sprout, the preceptress.
- Believing that all men are born flirts, Mary resolves to show up Cullen, Grace's husband, whom Grace thinks is a model. She writes a note to Cullen making an appointment at a hotel, wearing a white flower as a sign of recognition. Cullen passes the buck to his friend Fred, who keeps the appointment, and they have a lobster and trimmings in the hotel café. When the waiter hands him the bill, Fred discovers he has left his wad on the piano at home, and calls up Cullen, who rushes to the rescue. Cullen's wife, Grace, returns home and is told by the maid that he has gone to the hotel. When he returns Grace is peeved at his absence. In the meantime Fred has got too gay with Mary, who resents his manner and goes to Grace's house. Fred follows. There Mary finds Grace packed up and ready to leave, accusing Cullen of flirting. Explanations are in order, amicable relations established, Cullen vindicated and Mary convinced that she has handled a "boomerang."
- Jack sees a film crew at work and is disgusted by their rowdiness. He sees Mary dressed in a demure Quaker costume and, not realizing she's an actress, apologizes to her on behalf of the rude film people. She goes along with the ruse, even taking him to meet her 'parents' who are also actors in the film.
- Billie and her sweetheart have a lovers' quarrel, and he refuses to take her home from a dance when she flirts with other men, and she is compelled to accept the escort of the butler. On the way she is insulted by a drunken man and is saved by a chivalrous mechanic, who beats up the drunk and escorts her home. When her sweetheart attempts a reconciliation, the mechanic beats him up, under the impression that he is a stranger. Billie forgives her battered lover and heals his bruised body and affections.
- A man and woman meet at a summer resort and make each other think they are rich.
- Under protest Elinor becomes engaged to a Count DeFosso, but not for long. An overturned canoe, a runaway automobile and many other apparently unavoidable accidents convince the count that he would make a better soldier than a husband.
- An invitation being sent to Mary and Jack by the aunt of Mary and uncle of Jack, to visit them at their country home. Owing to delayed taxi trip to the depot, the niece is first missed and later the nephew. Incidentally both decide to find their own way to the uncle's house which address they have, and here is where the ludicrous complications occur. Not expecting each other, and finding the house empty, they enter by a window - at different times, of course - and hearing each other in different parts of the house and then catching a glimpse of each other, they become alarmed and turn in a burglar alarm. Both are arrested and only the timely arrival of uncle and aunt prevent disastrous results.
- Tom, Dick and Harry are chums - all in love with Mary, a college belle, and for whom they wage continual warfare among themselves. Harry brings candy for Mary, leaving it on the table. Tom spies it and coats the dainty morsels with glue to get Harry in "Dutch." Tom gets flowers as his offerings, and Dick, after substituting some vines in the box of flowers, takes the doctored candy to Mary. Mary gets "stuck" on the candy. Exit Dick. Harry, buying new candy, has easy sailing - until he returns home. Tom and Dick blame him for their trouble. Harry writes a letter, arranging a meeting in the grove and signing Mary's name. The other two see it, and Dick goes forth with a grease gun, filled with ink. Tom dons Harry's clothes to fool Mary. In the grove Dick mistakes Tom for Harry and - pass the blotters. Meanwhile, Harry and Billie have been married and arrive in the grove during a fight between Tom and Dick. Congratulations are in order and "all's well."
- Billie is the girl of Jay's dreams, but the fickle creature leaves him on the curb while she goes to ride with Jack, another suitor. Jay wanders down the street in dejection when he suddenly spies an item in a newspaper telling how a young heiress has just married a man whom she injured with her automobile. He spies Billie and Jack coming down the street with Billie at the wheel of Jack's car. He steps off the curb just in time to be struck by the machine. He is carried into the doctor's house and put into bed. Jack, sighting a clipping which has fallen from Jay's pocket, and realizing what his rival has done, gets himself into a similar predicament and is carried into the room with Jay. Billie discovers the scheme and organizes a conspiracy with the doctor. The medic orders Jay steamed and Jack put into an ice pack. The hospital huskies have just got the treatment well started, the patients have just begun to suffer, when the doctor announces that a mistake has been made and orders the treatment reversed. The patients are finally released, and as they jump out of bed they see Billie speeding down the street in Jack's car with the doctor at her side.
- Jack had to swear off smoking when he became engaged to Mary, but broke his pledge after the honeymoon. Mary put some Nico Not, a cure for the smoking habit, in his coffee, and Jack thinks he has an acute case of the falling sickness until he discovers the dope in the kitchen cabinet. He substitutes sugar for the Nico Not, and leaves an article on the dangers of patent medicines where Mary can find it. She returns, reads the article, finds Jack in an apparent fit on the floor with the bottle of Nico Not in his hand, and frantically calls a doctor. Jack tells the doctor the joke, but Mary overhears, gets a loaded cigar and presents it to Jack. The explosion throws him into a real fit, and wife laughs. Jack swears off, and they both ask the audience to do likewise and send the smokes to the boys "over there" in the trenches.
- The story centers about a double love affair, which includes a widow and widower and a son and daughter of each. The parents to avoid having the young couple discover their flirtation plan to keep them apart temporarily, but by means of a frame-up, in which the young woman pretends to be drowning and the young man posing as a colored servant, rescues her, matters are straightened out
- Billie is sent to the city by her father, who wires a friend's son to meet his "little girl." The city man shies at "kids," and arranges for the housekeeper to meet Billie at the train, while he goes on a shopping tour to purchase toys for the "little one." The maid is dumbfounded to see that Billie is grown up, and tells her of the misunderstanding, at which Billie, seeing some fun ahead, attires herself in short dresses. Her arrival is the cause of a series of most laughable situations, the butler, the maid and the man all trying to outdo the other in "playing" with the "baby." Billie gets naughty, and has to be spanked. She must also have her bath, and there are some embarrassing moments. But the greatest surprise comes when Billie, appearing as her own lovely little self, makes known the mistake.
- Jack, although married, likes the ladies and is a notorious flirt. His wife suspects him of cheating on her, and arranges a test. She disguises herself as a famous actress, Trixie of the Follies, and lets Jack pick her up on the street. At first Jack thinks her to be the famous Trixie, but he soon has his doubts and suspects that "Trixie" may actually be his wife in disguise. He rushes home to make sure she is still there, but she makes it home before he does and is waiting there for him when he arrives. Believing that he did indeed meet "Trixie", he gets hold of the real Trixie and persuades her to com to his house on a night when his wife isn't home. However, his plans don't go quite the way he waned them to.
- An heiress lends her house to a young couple who are entertaining a wealthy bachelor. To complete the picture, the heiress also poses as the chauffeur and maid.
- Jack is going to call on Billie, with whom he is in love. He wears his chum's suit and leaves his wallet in his other clothes. In a hired car he takes Billie and her sister to a Country Club, where he discovers his loss. A thief snatches Billie's purse, and after a chase Jack gets the purse back. In desperation he takes out a bill intending to put it back later. They go in for tea, and Jack pays the waiter with the "borrowed" bill, when Billie looking in her purse exclaims that the thief stole a counterfeit bill she had been carrying. Jack, terror-stricken, rushes the girls out, and the waiter and house detective pursue them. Jack's car breaks down, and running back to see if he is followed the detective seizes him and takes him back to the club. The girls go on home, Billie paying for the car. Jack's chum finds the wallet and brings it to him at the club. Jack does not know how to explain matters, but decides to muss himself up and tell Billie he fought a hand of ruffians to recover her note. He comes in limping, Billie believes the story and accepts Jack on the spot.
- Mary is wedded to her art, but Art Gordon wants her to marry him. Being rejected, he leaves the city. Mary's parents decided that the artistic life is not the life for Mary, and brother William arrives to take her home. Mary tells her brother she is married, and William mistakes Ernie, a married friend of Mary's, for her husband, and his wife for her maid. The friends decide to carry out the deception to relieve Mary's embarrassment. Ernie's wife becomes jealous and complications ensue. William decides to stay overnight to convince himself that sis is really married. Art Gordon returns to the city and calls up William. Mary tells him to bring a minister instanter. While the marriage is being performed, William wakes up, grabs a shot-gun and holds up the party. Mary is forced to explain and presents her real husband, Art Gordon.
- There is a rivalry of two suitors for Mary's hand, and one of these suitors resorts to the despicable means of "faking" Jack's personal diary, and thus making sure that Mary is apprised of the alleged fact that Jack has bet $100 that he will become engaged to her within a week. Mary, true to form, decides to give Jack the lesson of his life - so becomes engaged to him and at a party permits the engagement to be announced. It is. And straightaway Mary forbids Jack to smoke, drink, play cards or dance with any other girl. Poor Jack realizes the shackles thus imposed and seeks to relieve himself of the engagement pact, when he learns that his rival, Jim, has inscribed the memo in his (Jack's) diary and there's a wild battle, after which Mary acknowledges her deception in engaging herself to Jack, and they both decide to bury the hatchet and really become engaged.
- Billie and Cullen, after a brief matrimonial voyage, mutiny. He goes to the mountains and leaves Billie. Auntie, who intends to make Cullen her heir if he is happily married, arrives. Billie stalls and says hubby is entertaining customers. He is entertaining, but it is another girl. He returns when Billie sends an urgent call, Elsie, the other girl, coming too. Luckily, Billie and Auntie are out dining with one of Cullen's chums. They all meet in a café. Cullen has a scrap with his supposed rival and Billie doesn't smile sweetly at Elsie. Afterward, when Cullen explains they are "customers" and Elsie is delighted to change escorts, things are lovely.
- Mary is pushing a baby carriage and decides to enter a department store. Jack offers to watch the baby while she shops, but once the baby starts crying he runs all over the store to find her again.