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- At a girl's school, two young men make efforts to elope with the same girl.
- Wife was getting stout, but hubby impolitely told her she was getting downright fat. This hurt her feelings and she went to the bath house to get reduced by the steam process. Meanwhile husband went out for an airing and laid eyes on a swell chicken whom he followed into a bath house. Her sweetheart was Hank, the life »aver, but he didn't know this until it was too late, or until he had to take refuge in the steam room from said Hank's ill temper. Meanwhile Hank was having trouble with his assistant, as the latter paid more attention to Hank's sweetheart than was necessary. Also Hank's pet fish, Oscar, worried Hank, as he bit Hank when Hank was trying to be friendly. Oscar also bit an intoxicated gentleman who was trying to recuperate from the ill effects of liquor in the swimming tank. All these unpleasant features came to a climax when husband came out of the steam room and found his wife flirting with a fat gentleman. In the ensuing excitement a rubbing table got loose with Hank and some cops on it, and rolled out on to the roof and skidded around on the eaves. Wife lost twenty pounds through fright, husband got in trouble, the girl lost Hank and Hank slapped his assistant's face. Very few people have gone swimming there since.
- Whether to asphyxiate himself outright or hire someone to put him out of the world and thus relieve himself of the suspense of death, was the question Mr. McIdiot had to decide for himself after his lady friend refused to marry him. At first he decided on self-destruction, but when he attempted to throw himself into the lake, several hungry alligators cruising around it in changed his mind. He then hired the Chief Assassin of the Murderers' Association to do away with him within 12 hours. Same assassin agreed to the bargain, but meanwhile, Mr. McIdiot's lady friend decided she had made a mistake and told Mr. McIdiot she wanted him back. He went to cancel his bargain with the assassin, but unluckily he was out on a killing expedition, and Mr. McIdiot couldn't find him. To make matters worse, the Chief Assassin had a fit of remorse and decided to give up his old life. He chose the same minister to confess to who was marrying Mr. McIdiot, and the meeting was not pleasant. Mr. McIdiot ran up a high ladder, and the Chief Assassin fell off the same ladder into shallow water. Mr. McIdiot finally got the girl, but he was in such nervous condition he forgot to kiss her at the close of the wedding ceremony.
- When floor walkers have an inclination to flirt, but still know it's dangerous, should they indulge in this pastime? Mr. Rawsberry tried to decide this question, but it was not until a tall gentleman had appeared and gave him a couple of smacks on the jaw that he realized he had decided the wrong way. Mr. Rawsberry went straight to his store and started floor walking. His flirting proclivities again cropped out and he had a misunderstanding with the janitor. He tried to fire the janitor, but the janitor would not be fired, and he went to the Boss. The Boss was the gentleman who had slapped his face in the park. Also he was the husband of the lady Mr. Rawsberry admired, and he knew that Mr. Rawsberry knew that he knew he knew he was. The correct thing to do was to exit, which Mr. Rawsberry did. He didn't stop until he was a block down the street. Fate again intervened when a paper blew out an open window, and Mr. Rawsberry took it inside to accommodate the lady who lost it. The lady . was the Boss' wife again, and before Mr. Rawsberry could get out the Boss came in. The intruder's exit was rapid, but not rapid enough. Mr. Rawsberry had to take refuge in a bath house, but this didn't help, as a couple of bears from the zoo, admiring the bathing girls, had come thither. Also a gentleman who had been indiscreet with the liquor jug was present, and, between him and the bears Mr. Rawsberry's life could have been pleasanter. Everybody got out, including the bears, but Mr. Rawsberry was the only one who didn't get away. He climbed into the first window handy, and not until he was inside and took note of his surroundings did he realize he was back in the Boss' house. The events which now happened to Mr. Rawsberry had best not be recorded.
- Dinty, a bum, had just alighted from his "pullman" when he went out on a hunt for cigars. But the men were smoking them very short that season, so it was a hard job to get a good smoke. At last he was run over by a machine as he was in the act of getting a good one, and the doctor took pity on the fellow and took him home. At the house of the doctor he revived and was asked to stay for dinner. During the meal he became flirty and began to write notes to the lady of the house under the table. After dinner he became a little more familiar and the doctor was angry. He ejected Dinty from the house, so the tramp swore revenge. Dinty telephoned the doctor to come to a certain house at once, and then, when the doctor went to the door, he stole the car. Calling for the doctor's wife in the car, he took her for a ride. But as a chauffeur Dinty was not a success and it was not long before the flivver was a thing of the past. It so happened that the smashup occurred just in front of the hospital, so that he was taken inside and given the best of attention. The doctor was at once sent for, as an operation was deemed necessary. But the doctor that came was the very one who was looking for Dinty. With fiendish glee he sharpened the knife and prepared to take his pound of flesh. Dinty managed to get away and led the surgeon a chase all over the hospital. Then the police arrived and things got even more complicated. Dinty got out and took refuge in an auto with the cops after him. The chase ended in the doctor's house again. Dinty entered the room of the doctor's wife and then the doctor came in. He was forced to hide in the closet, but at last was discovered by the irate man. The picture ends as the masher gets his true deserts.
- The old man goes away on vacation and leaves his son in charge of the house, with no money. The son gets the idea of renting the rooms. He steals a sign and hangs it out. Mr. and Mrs. Henpeck arrive with their daughter. They are all loaded into an auto, but it breaks down. Henpeck must transfer all the bundles to a wagon. The horse makes a meal of Mrs. Henpeck's new hat. Filet Mignon of the Follies has rented a room. Hen falls a victim to her charms. Mrs. Hen ties hubby to the bedstead, but he transfers the rope to the heaviest bag and goes out. An old man who rooms across the hall is much interested in Filet. She puts on the ballet costume, decorates himself with a lampshade, and they do a pas-de-deux. Her maid gives a note to the Black porter asking him to meet her in the park at 3:00. Mrs. Hen finds it and thinks it is from Filet to her husband. She ties a bean bag to his back, with the corner torn out of it, but the chicken gets out and eats the beans. Hen gets through the transom and back to Filet. He orders supper. He connects a tube with the open gas jet and asphyxiates the old man. Mrs. Hen has gone to the park, thinking to trap her husband. She meets the Black maid instead and they have a fight. Both end in the lake. Meantime, the snake in the grass has seen the supper party. He creeps in. Filet flies, and Hen puts on a suit of armor. The Black girl comes to serve the next course and is scared white. Mrs. Hen returns. Hen takes the bellboy's cap and goes in to answer Filet's ring. Mrs. Hen follows, and Hen hides in the folding bed. Mrs. Hen suspects where he is, and there is a mix-up in which the bed goes through the wall. Hen climbs a tree. It is in a picnic ground, and the village band is playing. Hen drops into the drum and goes rolling down the hill. He falls over a bank and into the auto which is carrying Filet away from the house.
- Mr. Bigbee was a drone in the hive of society, but he was just as busy buzzing around the girls as the workers. In fact, he buzzed by much that his girl grew annoyed, so Mr. Bigbee swore by the Great Horn Spoon that he would foully put himself out of the way. Accordingly he shot himself, but, unfortunately, it was in the excitement and not where bullets commonly go. Vexed at his unsuccessful attempt to destroy his life, he hired Blood Hound Pete to kill him. How a tramp who looked like him almost married the girl is straightened out after a riot.
- Phil arrives in town on top of a freight car, dressed in an autoist's outfit. He sees I.M. Shoddy, the proprietor of the dry goods store, persecuting a defenseless sewing girl, and trying to persuade her to enter his car. Phil rescues her and follows her to Shoddy's store, where she works. She gives him an orange as a souvenir, and he saves a piece of the peel. He waits outside, and through the window sees the shadow of Shoddy undressing a wax model. He rushes into the store, and after explanations, is given the position of porter. He meets the sewing girl, but Merta, the fore-lady, falls in love with him, and makes it hard for him to meet the girl. Phil has all sorts of adventures in the store. He gives away the goods, and a policeman is called who chases him. He pretends to be a model, and escapes. He waters the flowers on a lady's hat, and finally, when a customer gives him her baby to hold, he puts the child in the cash basket, and swings it to the bundle girl. He sees a girl putting stockings for display upon a dummy, and is shocked, and later when a real customer is trying on stockings, Phil gets in wrong by thinking her a dummy. A veiled woman comes in. Phil pursues her, and when he finds she is colored, he faints. At last he finds Lucille in the sewing room, and plays a song for her on the sleeve-board. Shoddy has been watching him, and now he enters, knocks Phil out, and carries the girl to the cellar. He ties her to a pillar, and turns on the water. Phil follows and there is a fight. Lucille is drowning, and though Phil tries all sorts of ruses, he cannot manage to get into the cellar to rescue her. At last he is thrown out of the window, and falls through a manhole into the flooded cellar, and finds himself with Lucille at last.
- The four young married folks were all cursed with the artistic temperament, but unfortunately, in humoring it, they all got into the same studio unknown to each other. Bill's wife went to look at paintings. Bill went because he saw a swell-looking model going thither, and the latter's husband went because he imagined himself a connoisseur. Bill got confused at so much art and tried to tickle a lady's toes. She turned out to be his own wife and Bill made a quick exit back to the next room where the other model was. Her husband entered at this moment and didn't like to see his wife in draperies and a pleasant smile. He showed his displeasure so strongly that Bill put on a gladiator's suit to avoid the smoke and excitement. This didn't help him as a policeman tried to arrest him for indecency. Bill tried hard to escape. His wife also ran. The other husband and wife also got into the running, followed by two persistent cops who attempted to shield the ladies from the public's gaze with their coats. Everybody fell into a big ditch except Bill, who got out and covered the rest up with wet sand.
- A city couple drops into a restaurant and try to steal the cash box.
- Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company's masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband's gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.
- A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets; she chases him down and exacts comic justice.
- A dishonest undertaker stirs up droll, laughable tragedy between two devoted husbands and their loyal wives in his attempt to build up an insurance sideline when the undertaker business fails.
- The Mr. and the Mrs. live in the closest domestic harmony, until one day when the pipe in the bathroom washstand springs a leak, Mrs. calls hubby and they send for the plumber. The plumber, who is our friend Dan Russell, arrives in top hat and frock coat, followed by his minion with the tools. He is escorted with ceremony to the bathroom and takes off his gloves, coat, shirt and trousers, revealing himself in regulation plumbers' garb. Then he sets to work. A young Beau Brummel, a most persistent flirt, annoys the Mrs. in the hall of the hotel. She runs back to her room and begs the majestic plumber, who has now reassumed the garb of fashion, to pretend to be her husband and punish the flirt. The Mr. decided to take the chastisement of the flirt into his own hands, and goes to his room for a gun. Here he finds the plumber. Complications ensue in which Dan vainly tries to pose as the wife in her night cap and kimono. A general scrap brings the situation to an end.
- That old guy, Father Neptune, certainly knew a thing or two when he picked out the ocean to live. Ferdy Fishcake had it on Neptune, though, for though he had a fright of a wife, he was easing himself into forgetfulness by taking a few days' vacation with her at the beach. And the sights he saw. They almost made him forget this wife. He burrowed under the sand to get near Lotta Pepp and when his wife woke up she thought he was gone for good. So she hired a detective and they started a search which complicated itself so many times in hotels and cast suspicion on so many marriage vows that we can't bear to tell about it.
- The game of love would have been all right, perhaps, but too many tried to play it. The result was that Fat tried to get a lady to faint in Reggie's arms to make Peggy jealous. The lady fainted all right, but not as Fat had anticipated. Worse yet father, who hated young men, also took a hand, and his dislike for Fat was not overcome when Fat got him in trouble with a statue man and gave Peg and Reggie an opportunity to go off to a quiet spot and talk. Fat tried to get in the game again, but it was now certainly overcrowded, and he had to get out quick. He didn't go in the right direction, however, as he encountered father again. Father was just recovering from the previous encounter and was in a killing mood. He and Fat had a fight and Peg and Reggie had a fight in an automobile. The last rumors were to the effect that they went straight to the minister's.
- Harry was hungry but the store man was unsympathetic and told him to beat it. Harry then sent his dog after provisions, but a cop interfered and the dog bit him on the calf. Harry escaped, but the cop had him spotted for future reference. Meantime, Hank was having disagreements with his girl's father and his rival. Both were quarrelsome and it was not until Hank got a couple of kicks in the face that he realized it was useless to try and make up with them. He met the girl in the park after father had thrown him out the window. Another annoyance arose here when a gink tried to horn in and flirt with his girl. Hank got this intruder safely disposed of when Harry and his dog appeared. The cop who was trailing them also appeared. Hank hit Harry. Harry bit a bystander and the dog bit the cop again. All of them went into the lake except the girl and she went off with another fellow.
- Dan was the shepherd at Rushville. Gladys was the Rushville beauty, the daughter of the hotel proprietor. Every day the hotel keeper went to meet the guests who never came, and he grew sad. At last came a day when a guest did arrive on the 4 o'clock train. She was a vampire, but the proprietor did not know that. He rushed her into the old wagon and drove at top speed to the Rushville House. Gladys was sent upstairs to dust off the furniture in the guest room, and the lady was ushered into her apartment by the full staff. She was given a cowbell with which to make her wants known, and when she sat in the rocker, which promptly went over backwards with her, she rang it furiously. Pa disguised himself as the bellboy and answered. She was registered as La Belle Petroleum, a heel dancer, but when Dan saw her practicing in the woods in a Ballet Russe costume he thought it would have been more accurate if she had spelled heel with a double l. Dan had a hard time rescuing his flock from contamination, and the black lamb was determined to attach himself to the dancer. Pa invited his guest to drive with him, and Dan was jealous. The horse balked, standing on the railroad tracks, with an engine coming rapidly nearer. Only Dan's presence of mind in lighting a fire under the carriage prevented a tragedy. Then Dan and Pa had a fight, and Dan went off with the dancer, while the wagon burned in front of the hotel. Years went by. La Belle Petroleum had become a family drudge, with six husky boys. The hotel had flourished, and Pa had purchased an auto. But he had never forgotten the lovely dancer, and one day he just got into the buzz wagon, drove off to her house, and asked her to elope with him for old times' sake. This she was delighted to do, and managed to elude Dan and the children. When they found that she was gone, they set out to follow her, the youngest one carrying his lamb. The elopers got stuck in a mud puddle and abandoned the car. which Dan and his husky boys managed to set going again. They rushed after the train, and just succeeded in catching it. Then they threw Pa off with one mighty heave, and the family were reunited at last.
- Bill gets into a fight with a young intern. They have a scrap over a nurse, and the intern leaves Bill for dead. He and the nurse hurry to the hospital. Bill is found by policemen and carried into the hospital. In the ward an anarchist offers to stand treat. Bill steals his bottle, but the nurse catches him with it. The nurse is sweet to Bill and this arouses the ire of the anarchist, who puts a bomb under Bill's bed. The nurse sits on the bed and the anarchist tries to get her away. Then the bomb is discovered and the entire hospital force tries to get rid of it. In the end both the anarchist and Bill are blown away by the explosion.