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- The boarders in Mrs. Hagan's boarding house hold a spiritualistic séance. Keene, of the vaudeville team of Kelly and Keene, who are roomers in the house, decides to have some fun with the boarders. By the use of a pair of castanets, he manipulates the sound of spirit rapping. Meanwhile Kelly, who is dying for a drink, goes into the German boarder's room and takes a case of bottled beer. He empties the beer and fills the bottles with water. He gets drunk and falls on the floor in a stupor. Keene returns to his room and finds the beer. His fellow boarders come into the room and are convinced of poor Kelly's demise. Keene takes up a collection to provide a burial fund. He goes out for an undertaker. The undertaker arrives with a chest full of ice. They put Kelly in the ice chest. Kelly recovers and rushes out. He enters the parlor and the boarders, convinced that they see a ghost, rush from the house. Keene, meanwhile, gets drunk on the collection fund. He returns home and puts him in the ice chest. The undertakers find they have the wrong man.
- Jack Gray borrows $50 from his friend the doctor. He gives the doctor his I.O.U. On the reverse side of the card is a message to Jack from some chorus girl, asking Jack to meet her at the chorus girls' ball. The doctor's wife, while sewing a button on the doctor's coat, finds the card and thinks it is meant for her husband. She determines to disguise herself as a chorus girl and meet her husband herself. This she does, but on her way to the ball her auto runs into a post and she is rendered unconscious. Jack sees the accident and he carries her into his house. She revives and he induces her to take a few drinks. Meanwhile Jack telephones his friend the doctor to call at once, believing her seriously injured. When the doctor calls he finds his supposed patient doing a bear dance with Jack. He recognizes his wife in the chorus girl, and proceeds to give Jack a very artistic beating. His wife, having gone home, awaits his return, showing him the card as the reason for her actions. He shows her the reverse side of the card, with Jack's I.O.U., and serious complications are thus averted.
- The bachelors, when they complain of the food, get a rolling pin over their heads, manipulated by the colored housekeeper. The housekeeper is fired and said bachelors advertise for a new one. In answer to this a beautiful girl visits the house; she is hired. It is not long before all three of the bachelors, Burk, Don and Charlie are infatuated with the new girl. They shower her with presents, help her in her work and finally fight over her. Later, each presents her with a diamond ring. But the surprise of their lives is when the pretty cook introduces them to her husband and leaves.
- Chester is in love with Pearl. Pearl's mother objects to him because he is not wealthy. Pearl walks along the street and finds a letter introducing the bearer as John Henry, a miner, just returned from the west, a miner looking for a job. She hires him to pose as Chester's rich uncle. Chester outfits him and they call. John makes love to the old lady and insists upon all going for an auto ride and to a swell restaurant. There he spends all of Chester's money. This keeps up for a week and the old lady thinks there is no one like John. Just as Chester is almost broke and about to give up, John receives a letter that a mining claim he owned was sold and brought a large profit. He turns some of the money over to Chester and all ends well.
- Alice Brady writes her brother Will that she is going to visit him. The letter is lost. Will writes his friend Jack Wilson to come over. Alice arrives while Will is away from the house and goes to her room to sleep. Jack, who has looked upon the wine when it was much too red, comes to the house and tries to get into Alice's room. She chases him out and Will comes home to find his friend shivering in the hallway. Jack explains that some woman threw him out of the room. Not knowing of Alice's presence, Will is very much wrought up. He knocks on the door of her room. Alice, thinking the inebriate, Jack, has returned, opens the door and throws a pitcher of water all over Will. Confusion reigns, until matters are straightened out by proper introductions and regrets.
- Charlie's uncle receives a letter from a friend of his informing him that his friend, Mr. Grantley, has died and that he has entrusted to him the care of Mr. Grantley's beautiful daughter, Helen. Charlie's uncle informs Charlie that he is called away on a trip and asks Charlie to care for his new ward. Helen arrives and Charlie is smitten with her beauty. He decides on a scheme. He disguises himself as an old man and masquerades as Helen's new guardian. He is very lavish in his display of love-making and all in all is very attentive. At times he doffs his disguise and appears as his natural self and is also attentive to Helen. The next day he is still in his disguise of the old man when the uncle returns unexpectedly. He introduces himself as Helen's guardian, but is compelled to call in his housekeeper to prove it. Charlie enters at that moment and the old man kicks him out of the house. He takes off his disguise and meeting a friend on the street he changes clothes with him. He then enters the house and his uncle, glad to see him, entrusts Helen to his care, while poor Charlie is compelled to pay the housekeeper some money, to keep the secret of his masquerading for his uncle.
- Chester is paying attention to Pearl. Despite this, he persists in flirting with every pretty girl he sees. Pearl s friend. Mabel, after visiting Pearl, meets Chester, who is on his way to see Pearl. He immediately follows her, but she will not flirt with him. The next day Chester again visits Pearl and Mabel calls. She sees Chester and immediately tells Pearl about him. Pearl decides to work a game on him. After he has gone she writes him a note, asking him to meet her the next afternoon, and signs her name to the missive. She dresses her colored maid in some finery and putting a veil on her, induces her to go to the meeting place. Chester, tired of waiting, sees the maid come along, and follows her. She speaks to him and he walks her home. Meanwhile Pearl and Mabel have followed them, as does Mr. Johnson, the maid's fellow, who has penetrated her disguise. The maid takes Chester home, and he never recognizing the house, enters with her. Pearl and Mabel go in. while the angry Mr. Johnson remains outside. Pearl confronts him and demands to know who the woman is. He claims it is his sister until Pearl takes the maid's veil off and he sees that he has been flirting with a coon. He rushes pell mell out of the house entirely cured of his flirting habits. Mr. Johnson, waiting outside, assails him with cane, and Chester runs for his life, while the girls inside are enjoying a huge laugh at his expense.
- Mr. Stout, fat, is lazy. He refuses to exert himself. Mrs. Stout, thin, directly opposite, and cannot understand his lazy proclivities. Their servant girl, Lizzie, is also lazy. Mrs. Stout procures a bottle of medicine which is called "Vitalo," supposed to make people active. Lizzie is entertaining her beau, the cop. and refuses to move. Mrs. Stout pours some of the "Vitalo" into her milk. Lizzie and the cop drink and immediately become victims of speed. They dance about in whirlwind fashion, until the cop becomes exhausted and leaves. Mrs. Stout, seeing the effect, decides to try it on her husband. She puts a dose in his coffee, and immediately the lazy man becomes a whirlwind of activity. He invites his wife to go for an auto ride. This they do, and in the middle of the road the auto breaks down. Stout, full of the strange "Vitalo." gets out and pull the auto all the way home. Coming into the house, he joins Lizzie in generally scattering things about, much to Mrs. Stout's discomfiture. Mrs. Stout, after viewing the wreckage, decides that she would rather have her husband lazy.
- Mr. Cool acts that way towards his wife. She is angry because he is not more demonstrative in his affections. She writes a letter so that he can see it, telling a friend of hers that she has decided to flirt desperately with some young man. Hubby reads the letter. Ferdie Fly, a masher, follows Mrs. Cool the nest day and enters her house. He pretends that he is a ladies tailor and presents a card to her. Hubby is in the next room. Ferdie makes love to Mrs. Cool. Mr. Cool takes two revolvers and loads them with blank cartridges. He enters the room and demands that Ferdie fight him a duel, and orders Mrs. Cool into the next room. She goes. The men raise their pistols and, on a shot from Ferdie's revolver Mr. Cool drops to the floor. Ferdie runs out of the house frightened. Mrs. Cool enters the room and is horror stricken to find her husband supposedly dead. She decides to join him and tries to shoot herself, while Hubby, on the floor is enjoying the huge joke. Three times she shoots herself, and falls to the floor but on each occasion she is surprised that she is still uninjured. Meanwhile Ferdie has rushed into a policeman's arms and informed him that he has killed a man. They return to the house whereupon Mr. Cool sits up and Ferdie rushes pell-mell away from the supposed ghost, while Mr. and Mrs. Cool make up, she promising never to flirt again.
- Chester is visiting his sweetheart Pearl. While he was on his way to her house he picked up in the street a note-book, evidently dropped by some passerby. As he was putting on his overcoat, preparatory to leaving, the book fell out of his pocket. He leaves and Pearl finds the book. She opens it and sees on one side of the pages certain entries detailing expenditures incurred in taking out some girl. Pearl becomes insanely jealous. Her friend Violet visits her and Pearl tells her of her discovery of Chester's perfidy. Violet advises Pearl to flirt with some fellow, and thus bring Chester to his senses. Pearl goes out to the street and flirts with a young fellow. She walks with him and they meet Chester. He tries to speak to her but she ignores him and he cannot understand her actions. She takes her new-found beau home and becomes quite friendly with him. Violet again visits Pearl and finds the two together. She immediately starts a fight with Pearl, as the young man visiting her is no other than Violet's steady fellow. She accuses Pearl of treachery and leaves in anger taking the man with her by the ear. Chester then calls to demand an explanation of Pearl's queer actions. She shows him the note book and he explains that he found it. They turn to the flyleaf and sec the name of some salesman inscribed and all ends happily.
- A child's plea saves the life of her no-account father.
- Bashful visits the White household. He is madly in love with the elder of the two sisters. However he cannot sum up courage enough to propose to her. The younger sister, Pearl, is also in love with Bashful, but thinks her chances too slim for consideration. She feels in duty bound to her elder sister to refrain from letting her love be known. Various humorous situations develop, but still Bashful is unable to gather enough nerve to ask the fair damsel to be his bride. He picks up a book and reads a chapter of a man, who, like him, was too bashful to propose and does so by telephone. Struck with the idea, he pursues that course. Strangely the younger sister answers the phone and when he proposes, she accepts. He calls and is thunderstruck when she greets him with a kiss. He is too confused to refute her imputations and has to be content with the younger girl.
- Nellie loves Ned. Her father won't have Ned around the house and insists upon choosing Nellie's callers. He finds Ned at the house one day and telephones to Freddie, a rather effeminate youth, asking him to call immediately. Freddie does and Pa makes Nellie talk to him while he engages Ned in conversation. Ned gets disgusted and leaves. Freddie in his awkwardness, steps on Nellie's dress and tears it. That finishes him and he leaves. Father determines to get a real man for his daughter the next time and sends for Captain Fitzbugle of the town militia. The Captain calls and Nellie sees him. He boasts of his feats of courage to father, and pa thinks he is the bravest in the world. Nellie decides to have some fun with her father and the brave man in uniform and dresses in her father's clothes, wearing a mask. She gets an old horse pistol and enters the room where the Captain is still waving his sword. She points the gun at them and they collapse. She makes the Captain stand on his head and he runs from the house with Nellie close at his heels, waving the gun. The Captain runs into a policeman who chases Nellie through the streets and back into the house. She runs into the parlor and the policeman is about to arrest her when father explains that the desperado, unmasked is his daughter, and the policeman, after taking the gun away from her leaves. Father seeing that he is unable to curb his daughter's waywardness, writes Ned to call, hoping thusly to cure her had habits. Ned accepts the invitation and Nellie and he are reunited.
- Chester is in love with Pearl. Pearl is very fond of him but spends most of her time fondling and caressing Toodleums, her wee little dog, Chester has absolutely no use for Toodleums and is insanely jealous of him. He visits Pearl and she persists in paying more attention to the dog than she does to him. Chester conspires to get rid of Toodleums and hires a tough to steal him. The tough lies in wait outside of Pearl's home and at the first opportunity he steals Toodleums. He runs away and sells him to a stranger for $1. The stranger afterwards meets Chester and Pearl and Chester claims Toodleums and demands his return. This the stranger refuses until he is paid $30. Pearl compels Chester to pay this amount despite Chester's protestations. Meanwhile the tough who had stolen the dog anxiously awaits his pay and demands payment. Chester refuses and the tough vows vengeance. He decides to tell Pearl that Chester put him up to steal Toodleums and Pearl confronts Chester with this information. Chester, of course, denies it, but the tough appears and he cannot deny it; Pearl orders him from the house and he leaves lamenting his loss of both the girl and the $30.
- Smith, unable to meet his obligations to Brown, decides to commit suicide rather than face bankruptcy proceedings. Vera, Smith's daughter, finds a note from Brown beside the dead men and resolves on revenge. Later she secures a position as seamstress in the home of Ethel Wilson, fiancée of Allen Brown, only son of Vera's enemy, a fact of which Vera is ignorant at the time. Later she wins the love of Allan and marries him, hoping to strike the father through the son. Brown disowns his son for marrying a girl beneath his station, unaware at the time that Vera is the daughter of the man he drove to suicide. Vera writes him a letter informing him of the fact and then leaves Allan. The boy is too proud to seek reconciliation with his father. Time passes. Both Vera and the father read in the paper where Allan has been injured trying to stop a runaway. Struck with his heroism, the spark of love is kindled in Vera's breast and she goes to the hospital. Here she comes face to face with the father. He demands that his son choose between them. Allan taken the girl and then the father gives up. Reconciliation and forgiveness is had.
- Richard Hunter is a flighty and evidently a forgetful young man. He calls on Ethel, vows she is the only girl he has ever loved and gives her an engagement ring to bind their faith. He next calls on Gertrude and goes through practically the same performance. He returns home and is informed by his valet that Marguerite, another girl friend of his called him up. He decides to visit her, and does. While there, he again falls in love and gives her a ring to bind their engagement. Later, he walks along the street and is hit by an automobile. A great crowd gathers and while he is not seriously injured, still he is hurt enough to have to be carried home and put in bed. Newspaper reporters get on the job and a full account of the accident and the injuries to Richard appears in all the papers. Ethel reads of it and getting some flowers, proceeds to pay her fiancé a visit. The other girls also read of it and also come to nurse him back to health. The three meet, with the result that a free-for-all fight very nearly ensues when explanations are in order, and results in the throwing of his rings at Richard by all three girls. Later, fulfilling his prediction that the girls like to be fooled, they return, but again they meet and all chances of reconciliation are at an end.
- Lizzie is imbued with the idea that she is not fitted for her duties as a kitchen mechanic, but that her attainments should gel her a job as a heroine in the moving pictures. She goes to a studio and induces the director to give her a trial. Then things happen. She breaks up scene ad causes consternation among the others actors, especially the leading lady, over whom she causes to be spilled a plate of soup. She is fined two dollars. After a hard day's work, she is handed her day's pay, which after deducting the fines, amounts to fifty cents. She goes back to her kitchen convinced that her place is by the gas range and not in a studio.
- Pearl White and Chester Barnett have never met, though their fathers are great friends. Chester's father gives Chester a letter of introduction to Pearl's father, hoping to bring about a union between the couple. Chester's overcoat, with the letter, is stolen by the "Lifter." The Lifter decides to make use of the letter and visits Pearl and her father. He introduces himself as Chester, and Pearl, seeing him before he sees her, determines to absolutely refuse to meet him, she not liking his looks. Her father insists on her meeting him, so Pearl disguises as an old maid. The "Lifter" is looking for an escape, when Chester arrives and claims his coat and his name. The "Lifter" jumps out a window into the hands of a policeman while Chester and Pearl are glad that they at last know each other. Pearl having assumed her regular attire.
- Chester and Pearl are sweethearts. Belmont also admires Pearl and is jealous of Chester. He causes to be inserted in the newspaper an announcement of Chester's forthcoming nuptials with a wealthy society girl. He shows the newspaper to Pearl. She is indignant and asks Belmont to get her letters back from Chester. Belmont promises to do so and goes to Chester's rooms. He gets the letters and is about to depart when Chester returns. He hides in a box couch. Chester enters, and notices that his desk is open and discovers Belmont. Pearl telephones to him and berates him for his duplicity. He shoots off a revolver and she thinks he has killed Belmont. Chester sits on the couch and catches Belmont's hand. Belmont spends an uncomfortable ten minutes. Chester decides to visit Pearl. He does so. Belmont succeeds in getting out and also goes to Pearl's house. Chester explains that the news item is false. Belmont enters and attempts to give Pearl the letters she wrote to Chester. Chester takes them end upon his confronting Belmont he confesses that he made up the story to win Pearl. She forces him to go and Chester is left in full possession of the field and Pearl's love.
- Alice Wilson loves and is loved by Robert Grant. He proposes marriage to her and she accepts him on probation, the probation being on account of his unruly temper and wild jealousy. If Alice tells him he can control his temper she will marry him. Ned Morris, a friend of Alice's brother, is introduced to her and is attentive to her. Bob sees this and his jealousy is aroused. The next day he is walking in the woods and he meets Ned. They have words and Bob throws him over a cliff. He believes him dead. However, Ned falls into a tree and is saved. Some men passing see him and lowering a rope lift him to safety. Bob, believing himself a murderer, exiles himself. He grows a beard and hikes west. There he lives a secluded life, living in fear that he will be discovered and arrested as a murderer. He suffers terribly and is slowly but surely cored of his jealousy and fiery temper. Meanwhile Ned recovers from his injury and again courts Alice. She refuses him, her thoughts being of her missing Bob. Ned, who is a traveling salesman, is sent on the road. He visits the town at which Bob is stopping. The boys at the hotel, out for a lark, shave the heads and faces of all in the place. Bob is one of the victims, they shaving off his beard. Ned enters the place and seeing Bob, offers him his hand. Bob, believing it a ghost, screams and faints. They carry him up to his room and Ned volunteers to stay with him until he regains consciousness. When Bob comes to he sees Ned, who assures him that Bob did not kill him. Bob assures Ned that he is sorry for the way he acted and that he will never lose control of himself again, having learned a lesson. Later, Bob returns home, and finding Alice waiting for him he renews his promises and his probation is lifted.
- Barnett and Belmont make a date to play poker that night. Knowing that it will be impossible to get away from his wife, Barnett has Belmont send him a telegram that his wealthy old Aunt Emma is dangerously ill and about to die, and asking him to come and see her. Belmont sends the telegram. Barnett goes home and Pearl, having bought tickets for the theatre, wants him to take her, as planned. He pleads a headache, and they call it off. She makes him go to bed. He goes, expecting every minute to get the telegram. Meanwhile the messenger boy meets another who invites him to a moving picture show. They go, the first youngster forgetting all about the message. Later, after the show, he remembers the telegram and delivers it. Barnett meanwhile had fallen asleep and when Pearl wakes him up he pretends that he does not want to go. She compels him to. He arrives at the poker game just as it is breaking up in a row, and all the men are thrown out into the street. There they fight and are arrested. Barnett is lodged in a cell, with the rest. The next morning Aunt Emma, who suddenly decided to pay her nephew and niece a visit, arrives at the house, and Pearl inquires of her health. She shows her the telegram. Barnett arrives home, much the worse for wear, and Pearl asks him how he left his aunt. He tells her in a bad way, but the old lady confronts him and roundly berates him for his perfidy. She leaves, threatening to cut him off in her will, while Pearl sympathizes with him upon his promise to be good.
- Beautiful Bella has two beaus, John whom she likes and Percy whom she tolerates. John is bashful and Bella plays Percy to wake John into a declaration. But Percy becomes a nuisance; he also scares John away. Percy takes Bella for a walk in the park. Then Bella, dressed in her prettiest, jumps into the lake and takes Percy with her. Despite this treatment, Percy sticks. So Bella hires "Kid" Long, a tough nut, to scare Percy. John overhears the girl's plot. Then John pays "Kid" a big prize to let him pose as a hero. "Kid" throws a big scare into Percy who runs away. John gets in a fake "knockout" on the "Kid" and thereby wins Bella who believes him to be a hero.
- Pearl White opens an office in Red Dog, Nevada, as an agent of the Quick Pay Accident insurance Company. She goes out for business and makes herself known to all the miners in town and awaits their applications. The first to call is Chester. He gets insured and a little later accidentally shoots himself in the arm. He collects his insurance money, and tells all the boys of his good fortune. Instantly there is a rush of business and Pearl is swamped with applications. She issues policies to all. Then the men devise schemes to get hurt. One rolls down the mountainside. Another shoots himself in the arm. Still another trifles with a box of dynamite and so on down the line until there is not a man in town who cannot boast of some injury. They anxiously await the money from the main office and are somewhat dismayed when Pearl receives a letter from the main office of the company that it has failed and that they cannot collect. Pearl is in a fair way to being mobbed when Chester, who has taken quite a fancy to her, rescues her and the men have naught to do but to congratulate the pair on their approaching wedding festival.
- Reuben and Annie are sweethearts. Annie's Pa does not look upon Reuben with favor. Reuben and Annie are walking along the road. Si, who is also stuck on Annie, runs home and tells Annie's Pa, He comes out looking for them, determined upon giving Reuben a beating. Meanwhile Claude, the traveling salesman, passes them and flirts with Annie. She becomes stuck on him and dismisses Reuben. Pa sees them and mistaking Claude for Reuben, beats him up, before he discovers his mistake. Claude is invited into the house. Si and Reuben call, but Annie's attentions are all for Claude. Pa re-enters and gets rid of the two rubes. Pa insists upon Claude marrying Annie. Claude refuses. Pa holds him up at the point of a gun. He gets Si to hold the gun while he gets a minister. Claude overcomes Si and escapes. Pa returns with the minister, and is astounded that Annie's beautiful prospects of marriage to a city chap are gone. Annie resolves that she loves Reuben anyway.