Jane is a young and fascinating widow whose face is her fortune. It's some months since she has had a soul-mate and it is with a half-lonesome and half-forlorn look that she notices a unique advertisement in a newspaper asking for a very homely widow. The advertisement is signed by Jay Brown, a wealthy widower. She immediately answers it with the information that she is often mistaken for an escaped circus exhibit because of the unattractive contour of her face. Brown falls and hastens to her home, where he is ushered into Jane's presence. She has had an actor paint her face and otherwise disguise her so that she looks like a cross between the missing link and a lachrymose billiken. Jay asks her whether she can cook, and she tells him her name was Cook before she was married. That settles it. He leaves to get an engagement ring. While he is gone, Jane is sorry that she cannot be both pretty and rich, and decides to approach Brown as a beauty, first devising an idea whereby the path will be made clear. She places her photograph in view on the table, and sure enough, Jay sees it and is anxious to see the person it represents. At the proper moment, Jane walks through the room dressed elaborately. She gives him an encouraging smile and he kisses her. She flees to leave him alone adoring the photograph. Hastily donning her wig and painting her face again, she returns and chides him for kissing her "sister." Jay is all apologies and is about to give her the ring when Jane takes off her wig. He is charmed, to say the least, and a minister is sent for. Instead, an undertaken comes in with some embalming fluid. The actor and the maid in Jane's house also become attached to each other, making another romance in the house.