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- Jake, rival for the hand of Fay, gets Ed, her accepted lover, into trouble with Fay's papa. Ed is warned not to dare visit Fay. A clothesline runs from Ed's window in the house next door over to Fay's window, and the resourceful Ed, by means of a pulley, contrives to waft himself across and meet his sweetheart in secret. Jake, however, soon is "on" to this. He changes the end of the line from Fay's window to papa's, and when Ed makes a second flight he finds himself mixed up with her stern parent. Not satisfied even with this, Jake monkeys with the other end of the line. Traveling back to his boarding house, Ed lands in the room of a spinster, Fay's schoolteacher, and there is discovered by Fay herself, supporting the fainting lady in his arms. Fay refuses to be consoled, and leaves in a huff. Ed hunts down Jake and sends him off on the clothesline for a little of his own medicine. Angry papa, at his window, unconsciously clutching the clothesline, also is jerked into mid-air by the clever Ed. Ed runs off with Fay to the minister, and papa and Jake are left dangling on the clothesline.
- Nell and Ben are happily betrothed until the advent of Austin Force. Austin's flashing black eyes and silky jet mustache cause Nell to throw over Ben and promise to marry her new admirer the following afternoon. Nell's Aunt Ellen goes to the jeweler's and buys a beautiful necklace for the bride-to-be. Austin spies her. As the mysterious bridegroom's vocation is taking other people's things, and as he is ignorant of Aunt Ellen's identity, he shadows her home and resolves to pay her a midnight call. Austin enters the house and secures the necklace. Nell, who is spending the night with her aunt, surprises him, however. As it is dark, they fail to recognize each other. Austin is obliged to slap Nell's face in order to make his getaway. The following day Austin gives the necklace to Nell's father with instructions that it shall not be presented to the bride until time for the ceremony. Nell appears with the fingerprints still on her face. Austin realizes that if the aunt identifies the necklace it will go hard with him. He tries many ruses to recover the gems before her arrival, and to prevail upon Nell to wash her face. Ben's suspicions are aroused. He does a little detective work, the guilty Austin is exposed, and Nell takes refuge in Ben's arms.
- Fay disobeys her father, the deacon, and runs off with Edward to go in bathing. Father, sitting on the beach with his wife, is informed of Fay's actions by Steve, the suitor of his own preference. The deacon starts to find Edward. The latter, warned of his coming, changes the signs on the outside of the bath houses. The deacon gets into the women's corridor. Seeing a door ajar, he peers in. Instantly the door is slammed and he is caught fast by the whiskers. Here his wife discovers him in a compromising position. Meanwhile, Fay and Edward have captured the minister and gone out on a raft. Steve again rushes to inform his would-be father-in-law, but the deacon and his party are too late to stop the ceremony.
- Archibald's wife, Frances, has acquired the club habit. She neglects to take him to the theater, and he must pass the lonely evenings tending their infant. Fay, the chauffeur, out of pity for the slighted husband, falls in love with him and begs him to elope with her. His duty to the baby, however, constrains him to decline. Fay makes up her mind to win Archibald at any cost. She kidnaps him in the auto. The wife at the club hears what has happened and rushes to the rescue. Fay's machine breaks down. Archibald escapes and flings himself into the sea. The wife swims out and saves him. Realizing that he has been faithful to her, even to the point of risking his life, Frances reassures her spouse that she will show him more affection in the future.
- Fay, a wealthy young lady, is in love with Ernest True, a lawyer. Ernest acts as Fay's trustee and he holds several valuable bonds for her. These are kept in the office safe. Mr. Duke, a villainous fellow, wants to win Fay's hand, and he plots to get the bonds out of Ernest's hands, accuse him of misappropriating them and thus win Fay over. He hires a crook to help him and they make an attempt to rob Ernest's safe, but are almost caught in the act by Fay and Ernest and are forced to beat it. Ernest is suspicious and hires Max, the famous detective, to guard his office. Max hits upon a plan to catch Mr. Duke and the crook if they should dare to make another attempt to rob the safe. He removes all papers and valuables and locks himself in with the intention of giving Mr. Duke a surprise if he should succeed in getting the safe open. Duke and the crook get into the office, but do not attempt to open the safe; they take it with them by way of the window. A policeman in the street below thinks they are safe movers and helps keep the crowd back. They take the safe to a secluded spot and proceed to bore a hole through the door, they then push a stick of dynamite through the hole. The dynamite is connected to a fuse. Max, in the safe, just saves his life by cutting the fuse before it burns down to the explosive. When a second fuse is put through, Max lights it from the inside. It burns back out, and, while Duke and the crook are looking for another match, it comes in contact with some carelessly placed powder. Duke and the crook are blown out of the window. They land in front of the pursuing police, who have been led by Fay and Ernest in a chase after the missing safe. The arrest is made. Max is rescued from the safe and is proclaimed a great man.
- Spotty Jones abuses his wife, and she determines to be revenged. She calls her mother to her aid. Jones, apprised of her coming, changes nameplates in the hall, and when the mother-in-law arrives she goes to the wrong apartment. Never having seen her son-in-law, she opens hostilities on the occupant of the apartment, the henpecked Mr. Hicks. Mrs. Hicks, returning unexpectedly home, finds a strange woman beating her husband. Mrs. Hicks is busy lambasting the intruder when the father-in-law bursts open the door and sees Mrs. Hicks beating his wife. Jones tries to square things, but his explanations don't clear him. and the film ends with Jones attacked from all sides.
- Ethel and Ed are engaged and Ed promises to take her to a swell café for lunch. On the way to meet her at noon, Ed is stopped by a young lady who is having trouble starting her new auto. Ed offers to help her. He gets into more trouble than he expected, but finally gets the car started and the young lady, believing Ed to be a wonder around autos, begs him to drive her home. To be polite, he does so, but unfortunately Ethel sees him getting into the auto and driving away. She believes Ed has deserted her. After escorting the young lady and her machine home, Ed rushes to the office, realizing that he is late for his engagement with Ethel, hie finds her in a fury and is unable to square himself. She gives back the ring. It happens that Bill, the office boy, has eaten too much lunch and, having heard the quarrel between Ed and Ethel, he is inclined to fall asleep. Bill wakes up to the fact that he is madly in love with Ethel. He proposes to her and she accepts him, more to spite Ed than anything else. Bill leaves a note to Hadley, his boss, to the effect that his office force is going to get married. Bill and Ethel have some trouble getting a license because Bill is so young, but he manages to get away with it by using stilts and a mustache. Hadley gets the note and notifies Ed. They rush to prevent the wedding but arrive too late. Ed is almost frantic and chokes Bill nearly to death. Luckily Bill wakes up about this time and finds that he has been dreaming. Ed manages to square himself with Ethel.
- George, age 6, loves Nell, but sees that Willie, by his superiority in the love-making art, has the inside track--and a soapbox automobile. George buys a book to learn how to make love. Meanwhile, Johnny comes along in his real two-foot power auto and lures Nell away. Willie plans revenge. That afternoon he overhears Johnny and Nell planning to elope that night, and arranging to meet at eight at an old barn. After being put safely to bed, Johnny sneaks out to meet Nell. Willie lies in wait and gets to the barn before Johnny and locks Nell in the barn. Putting on Nell's extra dress (carried in her eloping dress suitcase), he waits for Johnny. Unsuspectingly, Johnny puts Willie in his auto and off he pedals. Meanwhile, George is wandering about and sees that the barn is on fire. Nell has kicked over a lit lamp in her struggle to free herself. George runs to the rescue. Willie has been discovered by Johnny in the meantime and they are fighting furiously. They see the fire, too, and rush back, arriving just in time to see the despised George kissing Nell goodnight at her gate. Johnny and Willie, disgusted, shake hands and solemnly swear that they "are off 'wimmen' for life." Nell slips back to bed unnoticed, as does Johnny, whose mother never could understand how he got such a scratch on his nose, since it was not there when he went to bed.
- Deacon Titus takes Ethel to the seashore. Hugh, her sweetheart, dons woman's clothes and follows, introducing himself as Ethel's teacher. Ethel's real teacher arrives later and when all go into the water Hugh's deception is discovered. Hugh puts his "female riggin' " in the deacon's bathhouse and goes home in the latter's clothes with Ethel, while the deacon is obliged to put on the discarded lady's costume. He is chased away by the irate merry-makers.
- Sam contemplates suicide. Sadie's dad has repeatedly kicked him out of his domicile and even Sadie has begun to lose faith in her hero. Sam is reduced still further in spirits when Sadie tells him that her father has threatened to have him arrested as a white-slaver it he shows up around her home again. Instead of committing suicide Sam hits upon a brilliant plan; he decides to elope and be married on the wing. Sadie being agreeable, they pack their telescopes and set out for the pastorate of the minister in the next town. Here come complications. Sadie's dad apprised of the elopement, calls in the police. Two score eagle-eyed detectives are summoned. Bloodhounds are hastily fed with raw meat and roused from their kennels. Church bells are rung and the local Anthony Gumstalk mounts his velocipede to overtake Sam, the white-slaver. Sam and Sadie find the minister's house in good time but, woe is me, his reverence is not home. Sadie, however, foils the detectives by blacking her face and posing as the rector's maid. The detectives, weary with their unwonted exercise, determine to call it a day and lie down in the pastor's parlor for a nap. Anon, the minister returns home. Sadie, hastily washing her face, explains matters to him, and while the sleuths of the law sleep on, Sam and Sadie are made one and indissoluble. Meanwhile Anthony Gumstalk has sent a note to the head of the detective bureau in Sadie's home town. "Can a White Slave Be Black?" is the gist of the note. Sadie's father and the sergeant of detectives receive the message and hurry to the minister's, feeling that things have taken a dark turn. When they arrive Sam and Sadie are leaving with their marriage certificate. Papa and the sergeant obtain relief by casting stones at the detective force.
- Mr. Drummer leaves his wife at home to make a short business trip. On his way to the station he sees a thief take a purse from Mrs. Gardner, who is asleep on a park bench. He gallantly pursues the thief and recovers the purse, but to his surprise, he is arrested as the guilty one and thrown into jail for sixty days. Mrs. Drummer, lonesome at home, and thinking that hubby has deserted her, decides to rent their home and move to a hotel. She succeeds in leasing the place to Mr. and Mrs. Grinder. Mr. Drummer gets out of jail and has sent word to his wife that he shall soon be home. Mrs. Grinder receives the messenger and tells him to take the note to Mrs. Drummer at the hotel. Drummer takes on a few drinks before arriving at his home and not knowing that his wife has moved, he enters the house, making a lot of noise, and goes to his room. Grinder is working late at his office. Mrs. Grinder has retired and when she hears Drummer banging around, she thinks that her hubby has come home drunk. Drummer, in pajamas, knocks on his "wife's" door with the idea of squaring himself. The door is opened a few inches and he gets a punch on the head. Grinder returns from the office, tired and worn from labor. He removes his shoes that he may not disturb his wife at such a late hour. Upon seeing the light in her room he decides to kiss her good night. To his surprise he gets a bump on the head with a pitcher. Drummer peers out of the front room in time to see Grinder move away from the "wife's" door. He now understands why his wife doesn't care to see him; another man has come into her life. He goes to dig out his revolver. Grinder sees Drummer and also suspects his wife. He gets his gun, and a hot time follows as the two deluded men chase one another through the house. Mrs. Grinder joins in the chase, thinking her husband insane. Mrs. Drummer receives her husband's message at the hotel, and realizing that he will return to the old home, she rushes there to head him off. She arrives in time to save Drummer from landing back in jail as a dangerous citizen.
- Mr. Hadley censures Ethel for being late for work. Ed, her admirer, purchases an alarm clock so that Ethel will get up early in the morning. In the meantime Sylves, an excitable Italian, calls on Hadley, threatening to blow him unless he discontinues the divorce case that Hadley has started for Mrs. Sylves, because of Sylves' cruelty. Sylves hurries home, and, using the alarm clock for an infernal machine, proceeds to load it. After tying his wife so that she cannot give the alarm, Sylves leaves for Hadley's office. On his way he meets a boy who delivers the clock. By a coincidence. Ed's clock and Sylves' arrive at the same time and get into wrong hands, Ethel getting Sylves' and Hadley getting Ethel's. About this time a broken-down opera singer calls on Hadley, trying to have his contract contested, but poor Hadley thinks his mission has something to do with the plot. After much suspense and suffering on the part of Hadley, Mrs. Sylves gains her freedom and notifies the police, who arrive two minutes before the time set for the infernal machine to go off. It is hurled through a window, landing in the back of the office where Sylves is waiting to hear the result of his villainy, and he gets his just deserts.
- The Duke de Touche is wanted by the police. He and his confederate, Lotta Kale, have been hiding at a hotel resort. Miss Kale learns that a detective is on the trail of the duke and warns him to get away. He, however, not caring to leave the place where business for the two crooks is good, decides to have his beard shaved off so the detective will not recognize him. He goes to Beppo the barber, who does a neat job. The Duke informs Beppo that he is returning to Europe. The rich Miss Kale long has fascinated the ambitious barber from a distance. He now plots to win her. Disguising himself in a beard, Beppo goes to the hotel, meaning to impersonate the Duke. However, he mistakes Fay, the manicurist, for the heiress and gets in deep before he discovers his blunder. The barber is accused of the villainies of the real Duke. He sits on a freshly painted bench and is forced to borrow the first pair of trousers he can find. They happen to belong to the Duke. Beppo is arrested with his pockets loaded with valuables. But the Duke makes the fatal mistake of accusing Beppo of having stolen his trousers. Then the victim owns up that said garments are not his, and proves, to all concerned, that he is indubitably only a barber, and the Duke pays the penalty.
- Mr. Wallack, an avaricious person, loses his wallet containing much money and valuable papers. His wife insists that he offer a reward for the return of it. Bobo, a hobo, finds the wallet, and afraid to examine its contents in the open, he hides in a dog kennel. The kennel is the residence of Mr. Wallack's great Dane, and at about this time Mr. Wallack decides to tie his dog up for the night. Bobo is forced to remain in his hiding place. In the morning Genevieve, a lady hobo, dismounts from a freight train She sees a man tacking up the reward signs in reference to Mr. Wallack's wallet. To avoid a passing policeman, Genevieve ducks down an alley just in time to see Bobo come from the dog kennel, Mr. Wallack having taken his dog for a morning stroll. Genevieve finds an empty wallet in the kennel, and comparing the name on it with that mentioned in the reward signs, she decides that she is on the trail of the thief. She follows Bobo. The enterprising policeman has followed Genevieve as a suspicious character. Genevieve traces Bobo to Mr. Wallack's woodshed. She succeeds in recovering the money and locking Bobo in an empty trunk. The policeman catches Genevieve with the wallet and the money and immediately takes her off to jail where Genevieve explains to the captain that she has locked the real thief in the trunk. The captain takes Genevieve back to catch Bobo in the trunk. It happens that Mr. Wallack and his gardener already found Bobo in his hiding place and they have started for the police station. It looks bad for Genevieve when she and the officer arrive at the woodshed and find no trunk. Things are straightened out when they go back to the station, where they find Mr. Wallack and the police opening the trunk. Genevieve gets the reward.
- Hadley engages a new office boy by the name of Bill. Ethel comes down that morning in a new skirt which she displays to Mabel across the hall. She decides that it is too long, and is wondering how she can get it shortened in time to keep a twelve o'clock luncheon engagement, when Bill comes out of the inner office bound for the tailor's with his boss's ink-stained trousers. Ethel gives him her skirt and tells him to hurry. Bill finds the tailor out and decides to make good by doing the repairing himself. Meanwhile, Hadley and Ethel, their nether persons clad in newspapers, are suffering many embarrassments, which finally lead to a visit from the police. But in the nick of time Bill returns with the missing garments, though what he has done to them, under any other circumstances, would have cost him his job.
- Bill the office boy wants the boss to get an electric fan so he warms the thermometer up, and makes him think it is very warm. The fan is brought and put in Bill's room by mistake. Jimmy, the electrician, teaches Bill how to gamble with the fan by numbering the blades. The idea works out well, though there is going on in the Boss' office a conference between Trust Magnates, and the Boss would like to know why the fan hasn't arrived. Various other office boys join the little game outside, for nickels, and one loses under what he thinks is fraud. So he goes downstairs and complains to a policeman, who comes upstairs to raid the game. In the meantime, it has ended in so loud an argument that the Boss has come out and found the fan, and taken it into his private office. There the Magnates see the numbers on the blades and Bill is sent for to explain them. He does so, and the Magnates get interested and open a game themselves, to Hadley's disgust, he wanting them to attend to business. At the thick of their game, when they, like the office boys, begin quarreling, the policeman breaks in and comes near arresting them, being persuaded not to only by Hadley's entreaties and something else. The policeman goes out, mollified, and Bill is made to clean the numbers off the fan, after which business is resumed, and Bill is sent out, to count up his earnings.
- A fire-eating Italian is inclined to neglect his wife and spend most of his time buying wine for chorus-girl Trixie. The Italian's wife notifies Hadley, her lawyer, that she wishes to have divorce papers served on her husband as soon as Hadley is able to get evidence against the fickle man. Hadley instructs his stenographer Ethel to disguise herself as a man and follow the Italian to the café and watch his actions. Trixie, the chorus girl, happens to have more than one admirer, and one of these takes her to the café. The Italian sees this and almost starts a riot, but the frightened admirer saves his skin by turning Trixie over to his friend Ed. Then Ethel, in man's attire, arrives at the café and sees Ed--her sweetheart--with Trixie. Trixie thinks Ethel is a man and flirts with her; Ethel keeps up the flirtation to get even with Ed. Things turn about in such a way that the Italian, upon entering the café, sees his adorable Trixie in Ethel's company. A quarrel starts and Ethel's identity is disclosed to Ed. He comes to her assistance and Ethel has the pleasure of serving a summons on the Italian.
- Trixie is about to enter the bathing girls' parade and win first prize, but she has no bathing suit. Both Elmer and Chester are stuck on Trixie and they both race to a store to secure a classy suit for her. Chester gets back first with a striking costume, and Trixie is delighted to such an extent that when Elmer arrives a few moments later, she gives him the cold shoulder. Elmer, much dejected, wanders off alone to console himself. It happens that Fay and her sweetheart, Perk, have come in from the country to see the ocean. Perk has left Fay alone for a few moments and is amusing himself tossing rings at one of the beach concessions, the object being to win a pair of hose for Fay. Elmer sees Fay and he flirts, then gets acquainted and finally presents her with the bathing suit and suggests that she enter the parade and win the prize. This idea appeals to Fay, who is a bit peeved at being neglected by Perk. She dons the bathing suit and it fits her so neatly that she appears to be the most attractive girl on the beach. Chester sees her and falls immediately. He turns Trixie down and tries to win Fay but is greatly disappointed upon learning that Elmer is the lucky man. Chester has now lost out all around and, being at heart a villain, he tries several mean tricks to prevent Fay from winning the contest. He fails. Fay is presented with a check, the first prize. She and Elmer set out to have a good time. In the meantime Perk has missed his sweetheart. He meets her with Elmer and Fay introduces Perk as her fiancé. Perk assumes authority and takes possession of Fay, also the check. Elmer remonstrates, but to no avail. Perk walks off with Fay. Elmer meets Chester and they patch up their troubles and combine forces with the intention of beating up the country guy. They attack Perk, but he saves them the trouble of giving him a beating by gently tossing them off the pier into the ocean.
- Nell persuades her father to take her to the Corona auto races. There she and Eddie Pullen, speed champion, have a case of love at first sight. John, a jealous rival, however, decides to ruin Eddie's chances of winning the race by interchanging the signs on the water and oil cans. It happens that a gambler, who has made a bet with Nell's lather, has the same brilliant thought. So, after John has arranged matters, the gambler mistakenly restores the signs, and Eddie wins the race in record time, also the hand of Nell.
- When the owner of the lunch counter that he frequents raises prices, Bill enlists his friends to open a lunch business of his own.
- Mr. Hadley is sought by a heart-sick bride who pleads with him to secure her a divorce. Ethel, meanwhile, has been invited out to luncheon by a new beau. She returns with a necklace which he has presented to her, and when the unhappy wife emerges from the private office, she instantly recognizes Ethel's latest ornament as the jewels which her faithless husband had stolen from her that very morning. She hastens to enlighten Ethel, and they conspire to lure Mr. Jones to the office to visit the stenographer. He rises to the bait, and then Ethel uses her powers on him to such good purpose that Hadley, watching with the wife from the inner office, considers the evidence sufficient to start divorce proceedings at once.
- Mr. Fliver deserts his wife in the park and flirts with Fay. Fay thinks him rather fresh and calls Maloney of the motorcycle squad to send Mr. Fliver about his business. Maloney's services are hardly needed, because Mrs. Fliver arrives on the spot and leads her fickle husband off by the ear. Maloney is very attentive to Fay and escorts her home. Fay's papa doesn't like the idea of Maloney paying attention to his daughter, so he roughly orders him to beat it. Fay manages to slip a note to Maloney, which hints that he must call again. That night Fay's papa and mama order Fay to bed and then set out in their auto for a picture show. Shifty Sadie, a notorious thief, sees the auto in front of the picture theater. She gets in and rides away with it. Maloney, always on the job, sees her and sets out in pursuit. Sadie sees Fay's home darkened and quiet and decides to do a little second story work. She leaves the stolen auto and enters the house. Maloney sees her and follows. Fay sees Sadie with drawn revolver in the hall. She is frightened to death, and clad in pajamas, gets out of the window, runs to the front of the house, gets into the auto and sets out to find a cop. Sadie is frightened out of the house by Maloney. She misses the auto, but manages to get away on Maloney's motorcycle. Maloney gets another motorcycle from a fellow officer and goes after Sadie. Fay's auto breaks down. She dreads being seen in her pajamas. Someone approaches. Fay ducks into the first house she sees. It happens to be the home of Mr. Fliver. She hides under the bed in Mr. Fliver's room. Sadie gives Maloney the slip, and ducks into a convenient cellar door. Fay finds herself in a tight fix when Mr. Fliver enters his room, soon followed by Mrs. Fliver, who finds Fay under the bed. In the excitement Fay manages to get into the hall, where she barely escapes bumping into Maloney, who is still hot on the trail of Sadie. Maloney arrives, still tracing Sadie. They round up the thief in the basement. Maloney exonerates Fay to Mrs. Fliver, and takes her home in the machine. And Papa and Mama are so glad to have their auto and their daughter again that they receive Maloney into the family.