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- Priscilla Pringle, an old maid, is so much interested in Cave Man methods that she will not tolerate the courtship of a society fop for her niece's hand. She tries to get the niece interested in a cave man. Dolliver Dipple is also in love with the fair niece. She spurns him. He conspires with a couple of tough characters to kidnap his beloved, thus forcing her to wed him. They, however, kidnap Aunt Priscilla, who is brought to Dolliver's cave man plant. The toughs then return with the minister only to find that Priscilla is the authority. The law of compensation begins to work. The two young lovers, separated by the aunt's cruelty, find their opportunity to slip off and become one while the aunt is being kidnapped. The same minister that married them is the one chosen by the toughs. By following them, the newlyweds come upon the cave man plant in time to see Aunt Priscilla married to Dolliver. Every one is satisfied but Dolliver, and he is too far gone to care.
- Gribbon appears as a dancing master with a class composed of Keystone beauties. In spite of the fact that he is married to Claire Anderson, Gribbon indulges in many flirtations and the picture is replete with action throughout. One funny scene is shown when Gribbon mistakes his mother-in-law for the new maid and welcomes the real maid as if she were a queen. Gribbon's mixing of personalities has him in hot water for a long while.
- Mr. P. Nutt invented a wonderful flying torpedo which was worth millions when it flew, but his happiness was marred by his daughter's crush on his help hound. The president of the Midnight Thieves' Association craved the torpedo, so he sent Vampa, a well-set-up young woman, to find a man who looked like Sherlock Holmes. They found him in an ash-can pulling a Hoover on the garbage. When the inventor learned that the spies' eyes were upon him, he hastened to the Detective Agency and besought the ash-can dweller to take the case. Father returned--they always do--delighted at his date with Vampa. She arrived with her own copyrighted scheme to make the old duffer jealous. She winked her pretty eyes at the help hound, who could not withstand temptation. The scheme worked fine: the inventor became crazy jealous. "You tub of lard--I could kill you--there!" shouted the frenzied P. Nutt, slapping him on the wrist. His rough words had an awful effect on Fatty, who resorted to tears. Suddenly a tremendous noise was heard, a storm came up--big ocean waves resounded their morbid chantings--the family was eating soup. Camouflaged by this tempestuous ordeal, the gang was making way with the torpedo when Detective Snitch smelled trouble; dashing up into the private chamber he kicked the crooks in the hallway and flew out on the marvelous torpedo. He was nearing France, and the gas was giving way, when he was rescued by the inventor and the family.
- Bill and Leola, old sweethearts, meet in the park and talk over old times. That evening in their respective homes they are preoccupied and at last the suspicions of Bill's wife and Leola's husband are aroused. They visit Prof. Chiro the next day and the husband is told to beware of a dark young man, while Bill's wife is warned that a blonde is trying to alienate her husband's affections. Each determines to pursue the cause of the trouble and an exciting search follows. Finally, wearied of the chase, they call on Prof. Chiro again for advice, and he tells them to see Jingse, the detective, who occupies the next room to his. They do so, but do not recognize the detective, who is the professor in disguise. Each gives him a portrait to be used in tracing the parties. While visiting the two homes in the discharge of his duties the detective recognizes the originals of the pictures and comprehends the situation. He tells Bill and Leola to be in his fortune telling parlors at a certain hour, and also tells the husband and wife, respectively, to be at his detective's rooms at the same time. He first interviews the husband and wife in his role of detective, collects his money, and then tells them that the professor next door will fix them up. The detective makes a quick change and slides through a door into the house next door, where, as the professor, he again collects. Then bringing the two couples together, an explanation follows.
- A young boy answers the call to arms by winning a slacker as a recruit for the army.
- Polly arranges a wonderful list of Christmas gifts she intends to buy. A round of the stores convinces her that the list will require remodeling to bring it within the limits of her Christmas purse, and forthwith her inventive brain begins to busy itself trying to replace her expensive first choices with cheaper articles, with more regard for her purse than for those to whom the gifts are to be given. Some funny incidents occur between Polly and Henry, and the finish comes when Henry presents Polly on Christmas morning with a tile umbrella stand which he has decorated himself.
- Henry has committed the indiscretion of coming home to his Polly the worse for liquor, the painting of his office providing the rare occasion for a celebration. An unfortunate dab of red paint on his handkerchief adds fuel to the flame of Polly's anger and causes her to point the finger of suspicion at Henry so strongly that she finally decides to leave home and sue for a divorce. Polly, true to her sex, weakens as a result of Henry's pleadings over the telephone, and when the detective, who has never seen Polly, suddenly appears at the lawyer's office with the "dope" on Henry, and it turns out that Polly herself was the pretty woman in widow's weeds with whom Henry has been seen, the divorce suit is as suddenly put an end to and the pair are reunited.
- Johnny Kernan, who pursues the Goddess Pleasure on a shoestring income, and sometimes catches up with her, pals with Barney Woods, always his friend, sometimes his meal ticket and never beyond the reach of a "touch." In an exchange of Christmas presents Barney presents Kernan with a small gold pencil with his initials J. W. K. on it. Soon after, having a lucky day playing the races, Kernan sets out on the tin-horn trail to the white lights. Barney makes the acquaintance of Eileen Murphy the day she is moving into what she hopes isn't as disappointing a place as she knows it is going to be. Their friendship ripens into love. Kernan comes back, meets Eileen, decides he'll have her. He induces Barney to accept a thousand dollar loan from him and go to New York. Barney finally accepts, but before he leaves he and Eileen are married. In New York Barney gets a job with a salary just large enough to support himself, but just as hope is dying out in Eileen he gets a better job as patrolman, and she and her mother join him in New York. He is ambitious, and becomes a detective. Seeking clues to the murderer of Mr. Norcross, who had been shot by a burglar, Woods traces it to Kernan through the small gold pencil. Kernan plays upon Barney's indebtedness to him to force Barney not to make the arrest. It is only when Barney Woods reads an extra offering a reward of $1,000 for the murderer's arrest that he sees his way clear to pay his debt to Kernan and do his duty by making the arrest.
- Polly persists in putting to Henry the embarrassing question, "Henry, am I really the first woman you ever loved or asked to marry you?" The arrival on the scene of one of the numerous women of Henry's affectionate past causes him to sweat drops of blood until he discovers that the only confidence exchanged with his wife by the mischievous lady is the news that she is engaged to be married.