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Vic wants to marry his sweetheart, but her father requires him to knit 50 sweaters in order to win her hand. Her father sends a private detective after him to make sure he knits them himself.

Elsie Leeson comes to Mrs. Parker's rooming house and takes its cheapest corner, the Skylight Room. She finds copying to do, and occasionally in the evening sits on the front steps with the other roomers. The women of the house are jealous; the men adoring. One night she points to a brilliant star above them and tells them she has named it Billy Jackson, and that it shines down through her skylight. Then work ceases and Elsie starves--bravely, cheerfully. One night she drags herself to her Skylight Room and, throwing a good-bye kiss to Billy Jackson, lies down with a smile. They find her next morning and send for the ambulance. Mrs. Parker tells the young ambulance doctor that she cannot understand what is the matter with Miss Leeson. He goes upstairs, gathers her in his arms and rushes down, paying his respects to Mrs. Parker on the way in a manner that leaves her feeling crumpled in mind and body. He tells the driver to drive like H. Next day the newspaper says: "She was taken to Bellevue Hospital suffering from debility, induced by starvation. Dr. William Jackson, the ambulance physician, says the patient will recover."

After complaining about her dull life, shop girl Sally Manvers falls asleep on the roof of her apartment. Drenched from a downpour, Sally awakens and finds the roof entrance locked. She enters the apartment of society woman Mrs. Standish and encounters Mrs. Standish's brother, Walter Arden Savage, opening the safe. Sally protects Savage from a burglar, and after learning that he and his sister plan to steal their jewels to collect insurance money, she agrees to keep quiet if they take her with them to Newport. Although Savage, Donald Lyttleton, and Trego, a Western millionaire, woo her, Sally, who becomes a secretary to Savage's wealthy aunt Mrs. Gosnold, tires of society life. After a detective arrives, Savage plots to have Sally, whom he thinks will squeal, kidnapped, but Mrs. Gosnold changes clothes with her and is abducted instead. Savage recovers her, and at a masquerade ball the thieves are revealed. Sally returns to New York disgusted, but Trego, who earlier rescued her from Lyttleton, follows. Sally accepts his proposal and suggests that they live on Riverside Drive rather than Fifth Avenue or in Newport.

The family livestock are pawned to buy a fast automobile, which destroys most every landmark in the country.

Pokes is a firm believer in the saying, "All things come to him who wait," but his landlady apparently gets tired of waiting for the room rent, and Pokes is obliged to move. Wishing to take life easy he becomes a burglar. But as all first-class burglars have assistants, Pokes seeks out Jabs, the champion sledge thrower. Jabs insists that Pokes show his metal before he joins him, so Pokes allows Jabs to break several sledges over his head to prove he is solid. Jabs now consents to become Pokes' assistant. They break into a house which is filled with measles, only to break out quicker. Next they enter the house of athletic Edna, who has long waited to try out a new knockout blow. When Pokes and Jabs come back to life they are protected by Big Mike, the cop, who allows them to play golf for the rest of their lives on the rock pile.

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."

After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest bidder. At the cost of her daughter's reputation, Mrs. Pendleton accepts money from elderly broker Wilbur Simons, and later tries to force Neila into a marriage with a dissolute old millionaire named Hale Faxon. Even though she loves young Steele Minturn, Neila decides to consent to Hale's proposal for her mother's sake. One evening, however, Mrs. Pendleton discovers that Steele has won a large sum of money, and unable to resist the temptation, she steals it. Clad in her nightgown, Neila enters Steele's room hoping to replace the money, but he awakens and, misunderstanding her intentions, nearly attacks her. Finally convinced of her mother's selfishness, Neila accepts a job in another town, and later Steele encounters her again. While the two are trapped on a burning roof, Neila tells Steele the truth about her midnight visit, and he takes her in his arms as the firemen appear to rescue them.

Dave had a multiple cylinder, air heated, garlic driven, explosive system which waited only for a spark to start a cyclone. Gladys, a beautiful young girl, turned on the switch when she gave him a poison flower. That opened Dave's throttle wide and released a series of sneezes which would have made that little White Sox-Giant affair look like a ping-pong knitting party. You see, Dave was only a flirt, whereas Dad thought he was a capitalist with much goods. All he had was the hay fever. Everything went before that sneeze; Gladys, Gladys' skirt, Gladys' young man, Gladys' father, the pins on the alley, and finally it explodes a bomb and blows Dave himself up.

Sally and Rube, lovers, go to the city to see the fair. Unaccustomed to city ways, they meet with many accidents and have trouble with the traffic cop, but finally reach the fair grounds. They saunter past a tent on which is a sign reading, "Kiss the Prettiest Girl in Springfield for 50 Cents." Rube breaks away from Sally and goes in. He shows the "prettiest girl in Springfield" a wad of money that he has saved during the past year, and she at once accepts his invitation to see the fair with him. The manager, disgusted at losing his vampire, goes outside, sees Sally and drags her in to take the part. In comes a dandy who becomes stuck on Sally. She refuses to kiss him and proceeds to tell him how she came to be there. Finally Rube's money becomes exhausted and the girl becomes frigid and leaves him. Rube is bewildered, but cured. He sees Sally and her new friend stroll by and appeals to her, but they laugh at him and, crossing the street, enter an automobile and drive off. Rube leaves the fair disconsolately.

Neal and a friend, while on vacation to get away from their wives, hire uniforms and pretend to join the Army, are arrested as deserters, and after several complications are shot attempting to escape, and land in the hospital where their wives are serving as Red Cross nurses, where affairs are satisfactorily straightened out.

Henry Minor, a hen-pecked husband, asserts his independence and says he is boss. His wife employs diplomacy, caters to his every whim, sends all bills to his office, phones him regarding all matters, until he becomes disgusted, and is glad to let her administer home affairs unhindered.