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- Plump and Runt serve a 30 day prison sentence for an illegal poker game. When they're released, a new prison 'friend' follows them home, which makes things difficult, since the boys told their wives they were on a 30 day business trip.
- Mr. and Mrs. Love, with their young son, are so happy that hubby is usually late for work. The stenographer in Mr. Love's office who is in love with the bookkeeper places a note and handkerchief in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. Hubby spills some of baby's milk on his coat and when wifey is cleaning it she discovers the note and demands an explanation from hubby, who knows nothing about it. Wifey decides that she must live in the same house with hubby on account of the baby, but apart. She puts a chalk line on everything in the house, even the maid, and tells hubby that the line is to be considered a six foot wall. A friend of hubby's calls and is much embarrassed when Mrs. Love ignores him when he speaks to her. It is then up to Mr. Love to explain that the chalk line is a six foot wall. The stenographer, in the meantime, is angry because the bookkeeper failed to answer her note and asks for an explanation. She is informed that the note was not in his pocket that it must have been placed in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. They decide to explain the situation to Mr. Love, and upon calling at the house are confronted by Mrs. Love to whom they explain everything. Mr. Love is holding baby and feeling a damp chill on his arm he places baby on the floor. Baby gets busy with its little body and rubs out the chalk line. Wifey returns to the room and is pleased to see the chalk line removed. She awakens hubby, who informs her that he did not remove the line. They miss baby and find him looking at them from under a chair and of course, due to the explanation from the stenographer and bookkeeper Mrs. Love apologizes to hubby, who forgives her.
- When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
- Kate, the prize kitchen mechanic of the Goldrox home, has always envied the fair maids she has seen promenading the avenue, and resolves that, no matter what the cost be, she herself, is someday going to enjoy the life of a society leader. Babe, the driver of one of the city's garbage carts, also has daydreams of the life he would like to lead. In the park one day Kate, adorned in her best, encounters Babe, also attired in his Sunday best. The two entertain each other with stories of the thrills and bores of the lives they pretend to lead, greatly to the delight of the other. When the Goldrox are away for a day, Kate seizes the golden opportunity to indulge in the joys of living the life of the social grand dame of her dreams. With the help of the family servants she invites Babe to the house, where she proceeds to entertain him. Babe is greatly impressed and the affair is progressing rapidly, but on the following morning, Babe, dressed in his overalls, drives up to the back of the house to empty the garbage cans. He meets Kate coming out of the kitchen with the scraps of the morning meal, and each learns of the deception of the other.
- Runt buys an old flivver, and with Plump as his chauffeur, he picks up his girl. Suddenly the car takes to the air, with the police in pursuit.
- Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
- Florence, the village belle and heiress, accepts the invitation of Runt, the local sport, for a ride in his new flivver, much to the heartache of Plump, her true but rustic sweetheart. Runt, by his tales of wonderful adventure to be gained in the city he himself soon plans to visit, causes Florence to yearn to be one of the myriad lights that help to make the Great White Way burn so brightly. When Runt reaches the city he falls into the clutches of a lawless gang and soon becomes one of its most ardent members. Scheming to gain possession of her riches, Runt writes to Florence telling her to come to town where he will show her the sights. Poor Plump is heartbroken at the departure of his sweetheart. Premonition tells Plump that his loved one is in danger. He hastens to the city where he finds a clue to Florence's whereabouts and follows her trail to the den where she is about to fall a victim at the hands of the gang's leader. Using all of his strength Plump routs the gang and rescues Florence.
- Hubby gets home from the road and prepares to enjoy a few days at home, when Wifey announces that she will begin her spring cleaning. Hubby immediately has business at the office, but the boss is heartless and sends him home. He meets Bill, a trusty friend, and arranges with him to send a telegram demanding Hubby's immediate presence in Jersey City on business. All day Hubby looks for the telegram to arrive. In the interim he gets in bad with Wifey over the spring cleaning. His meals are irregular and unsatisfying ; he cannot sleep after 5 a.m. At last the telegram arrives and he tells Wifey he must be off. She advises him to read the message. He does so and reads: "Stay home and help your wife. Bill." Then he sinks through the floor.
- Jabbs is serious about business, but Pokes just wants to flirt with the stenographer. While Pokes is preoccupied, crooks break in and steal the safe with a large sum of money, entrusted by an important client.
- Hubby and Wifey part company and their divorce suit comes off. They arrive in the city and, unconsciously, put up at the same hotel. There is only one bath left, connecting between two rooms, and they are assigned to these rooms. The similarity of their names causes the house detective to watch the rooms. Wifey goes to take a bath and is scared away by Hubby's sneezing. Hubby enters the bathroom and locks the communicating door. Wifey, indignant, beats on the door. Hubby sniffs the perfume she has left behind, and thinks of his wife. He writes a note of apology and retires. Wifey sniffs the cigarette butt he has left and thinks of her husband. She also writes a note. The house detective, his suspicions aroused by the constant slamming of doors, enters and arrests Hubby for playing Bo-peep under the door. Then he goes to arrest Wifey. Each gets into the other's room and sees his or her photograph on the dressing table. With a cry of joy they clinch as they meet in the bathroom, and when the detective interferes they drown him in the tub.
- Kate, president of the Suredeath Street Railway Company, has a daughter, Ethel, who is the apple of her eye. Babe, an inventor of a safety device for the controller of a trolley car and possessor of a funny little wink, arrives to demonstrate his invention to Kate. Through the aid of Florence, his confederate, whom he has managed to install in Kate's office as a stenographer, Snorky, president of a rival traction company, learns a demonstration will be given on a certain date. Snorky plants a bomb underneath the car so that when the lever strikes a certain mark the bomb will explode. However, Babe has asked Ethel to accompany him on a trial spin a few hours before the demonstration, and their entrance blocks Snorky's escape. Finding himself trapped in the death car, Snorky raves and a desperate struggle takes place between him and Babe. Babe overpowers Snorky and hurls him off the roof of the fast-flying car just as the bomb explodes. The explosion throws Babe and Ethel high in the air, but with Babe's usual good luck, he and Ethel land safely in Kate's auto.
- All the workers at Runt's restaurant are distracted by the pretty cashier, and neglect their jobs. Runt hires Plump as a new chef, but soon discovers he's a better flirt than he is a cook.
- When Raymond's frivolous young wife informs him that household duties were too hard for her, they ask Kate, the cook, where a neat maid can be secured. Kate, being the proud possessor of the luxury of Plump as her husband, instantly sees a chance whereby she can keep the job in her own household and also force Plump to work for his daily bread. Informing the young couple that she knows a jewel of a maid, she hurries home and dresses Plump in some of her clothes. Both Raymond and his wife, impressed with the appearance of the new maid, try to make it as pleasant as possible for her. However, Kate's jealousy comes to the surface when she sees her loving man petted by the young wife and Plump, to his disgust, is forced to submit to the attentions of Raymond. Finally when the young wife discovers her husband flirting with the maid, her anger arises suddenly and she orders Plump out of the house. Raymond intercedes for the maid and matters rest until Kate again catches the wife petting Plump. In the confusion Raymond learns that the supposed maid is a man and Plump is done up to n frazzle.
- After the entire staff quits, a desperate hotel manager hires a pair of street cleaners (Plump and Runt) as his porter and bellboy.
- Mr. and Mrs. Plump are both prone to jealousy. When Mr. Plump is called back to the office late at night, she gets suspicious and follows him dressed in his clothes. When he comes home and finds her not there, he dresses in her clothes to tries to catch her with another man.
- Pokes gets a job as an extra in the movies, but he can't take direction, and runs amok all over the studio.
- Harriet married Sidney only on the condition that he promised never to smoke. Sidney remains faithful to his pledge for many months. Sidney's struggle to refrain from smoking is watched by his stenographer and clerk. A messenger boy smoking a cigarette delivers a telegram and Sidney orders him from the office before he is tempted to snatch the cigarette from him. Dick, a friend of Sidney's and one-time model for their class, is invited to the house for dinner. He. however, is not the model he once was; he is now a real sporty traveling salesman for a cigarette company. Finally, Sidney solves the difficulty. He is still the perfect husband, but does not mean to allow Harriet to rule him in all things. He has rented a room where he spends an hour each day transacting his business and incidentally smoking to his heart's content, but his happiness is short-lived, for Jesse Walsh has traced him and tells the wife what he suspects. Here the real trouble begins but Sidney is not deprived of his cigarette. Harriet also is a little inclined to take a "puff " to satisfy her husband.
- The young married couple have a few pieces of home-made furniture in their flat. The bride's uncle sends her all his old heirlooms, which fill the flat to overflowing. Hubby buys a rocking chair and brings it home. He thinks he is in the wrong flat until the janitor reassures aim. He has to use great care in navigating and gets stuck while trying to get into the kitchen. The bride and the janitor release him. He determines to sell the heirlooms and buy some real furniture. No sooner is the flat furnished with modern pieces when uncle comes to visit the couple. They dare not face him and escape to the roof. The scuttle is closed, and they are left in a rainstorm without shelter.
- Mr. Green, a prosperous architect, is tried by his wife's fads. Her latest one is charity. Over the breakfast table she tells him her plan for various charity affairs. She gives his clothes to beggars and each day the army of solicitors is increased and she sends them to hubby's office. When she learns that hubby turns them away she is dumbfounded. She goes so far as to put a drunken woman to sleep in his bed and it is up to hubby to sleep on the floor. The next day Green gets a brilliant idea. He purchased six dogs and takes them home with him, and when wifey asks the reason she is informed that he believes in animal charity. Trying days follow; he brings home a monkey, several kittens, white mice and an old skate of a horse which he turns loose on the lawn. He next brings home a sick elephant and is confident the elephant will recover if allowed to play on the front lawn with the horse. That night at dinner Green is enthusiastic over plans for a home for stray animals which he thinks would look nice on the front lawn. They then agree to give up their charities and Green makes out a check for the Bide-a-Wee Home and one for the Associated Charities.
- Mrs. Plump is the boss at home. After she berates her husband for flirting, even though he's innocent, he turns to Runt to help him get the upper hand at home.
- Plump and Runt leave their wives for a 'rest cure' at the seashore, where they meet two lovely young ladies. Unfortunately, their wives decide to follow them.
- Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.
- Though Ray's mother has a decided preference for blue blood, her daughter plainly showed that the old-fashioned color was good enough for her. Plump's life stream was red, while that of the count was supposed to be tinged with cobalt. To mystify mother. Plump and his pal. Runt, make up as "Bluebloods" and gain the old lady's approbation. All goes well until the real aristocrat appears on the scene and then blood of all shades flies about. Mother finally comes to the conclusion that the old tinge is the best and allows the willful maid to have her own way.
- Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
- Wifey gossips and stirs up the neighborhood. Hubby determines to teach her a lesson, and having prepared her mind by pretending to be greatly worried, sends her to bed with the injunction not to look out of the window facing the woodshed. Her curiosity gets the better of her, and she sees hubby bury something in a hole under a tree. That night he talks in his sleep and confesses a murder. Next morning as soon as she thinks be is gone she confides in a neighbor, who informs the police. The "criminal" is arrested and taken to the scene of the crime, where the box is dug up. On the lid is the inscription: "You can't keep a secret, but you can keep this." The laugh is on Wifey, and we hope she is cured of her propensity to tell everything she knows.