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- Madge, an heiress, is sent to Mrs. Gibson-Brown's Retreat to escape a certain Dark Man. They will not be parted, however, and decide to elope. As Madge appears on a balcony in boy's clothes, the Chief of Police, who is driving by, takes her for a burglar and arrests her. Her youth attracts him and he takes her to his home instead of to jail. At the bachelor abode of the Chief, complications arise and after a strenuous half hour the heiress faints and the Chief discovers her sex. The Dark Man is later arrested and brought to the Chief's house, where the maid recognizes him as her husband. Madge, her romance spoiled, discovers the Chief to be her childhood sweetheart and all ends happily.
- Chubby Huggins lives in a quiet village, and is too bashful to take advantage of the few opportunities that the place affords. Percy, his chum, lets nothing pass him by and is a general favorite. Chubby's father was a missionary, and one day a letter arrives for the old man from the Turkish Consul stating that his old friend, Ali Hassan, is about to be executed and is consigning to his care his "little family." Unsophisticated Chubby and his sister prepare for the reception of the "little family" by buying toys, etc., and great is their consternation at the sight of twelve beautiful Harem girls in charge of a big servant. Percy is delighted and begins scheming at once. While Percy schemes to elope with the whole bunch, Zora, the favorite daughter, makes love to Chubby. The result is that Chubby at last gets up courage to claim Zora and Percy falls into his own trap and is compelled to marry Sister, one of the Harem, to his own humiliation and the amusement of the whole bunch.
- The villain, greedy for more wealth, consults a noted seeress who in a vision shows him a treasure chest guarded only by a single country maiden. Together they go to search for this treasure, and find the country girl in Tillie. The seeress hypnotizes Tillie who, with her pet pig in her arms, is carried away to an old barn loft. They torture Tillie in an attempt to make her tell where the treasure is hidden. Tillie manages to dispatch the pig with a message to her sweetheart tied to its tail, saying, "I am in the hands of a hypnotist, save me." The pig delivers the message to Tillie's sweetheart, and then guides him to her prison where he arrives just in time to save her life.
- Jean Otto receives news that he has been awarded the Royal Academy prize of $10,000 for a composition, and he mistakes the piano tuner for the messenger with the money. The poverty-stricken piano tuner felt like a king for a short time. It was a mistake, of course, but when the dazed man is received with an ovation, banqueted and toasted, he begins to feel that he doesn't care whether it is a mistake or not. When the real messenger arrives it is a sorry time for the innocent piano tuner.
- Otto and Aunt Zasu live side by side and conduct their quarrels over the line hedge. Otto's niece, Matie, and Aunt Zasu's nephew, John, fall in love and are threatened with disinheritance by their kin unless they stay away from each other. John paints "Let's Elope" on Matie's dog and they get away from their watchful relatives. On the way to the minister they notify the health department that there is smallpox at Otto's house and the inspectors arrive as Aunt Zasu is searching Otto's house for her nephew. The elopers steal the health department flivver and are arrested for speeding. After a night in jail, with Otto and Aunt Zasu spending the night in quarantine, they secure freedom through the efforts of their friend, the judge, who marries them outside the cell door. They bribe the health officers to lift the quarantine, and upon announcing their marriage are ordered from the house. The judge goes back to plead for them and Aunt Zasu orders him to marry her to Otto.
- The widow Tightfist lives in an apartment house and is enviously watched by her neighbors, Mr. Yee Gates and wife, who hatch a scheme to marry her to Otto and go fifty-fifty with him on the money. Assisted by the widow's cook and the janitor, all works out smoothly, but after the wedding the widow refuses to loosen up on the purse strings. The doctor finally decides to have the janitor drop a brick on Otto, which will cause a dangerous malady, curable only by granting his every desire. Otto submits, but already sore at the bunch, takes advantage of the situation, not only to extract money from the unsuspecting wife, but to make love to the doctor's wife, and before the doctor can figure out if Otto's condition is real or feigned, the plotters are all given a run for their money.
- A caveman, his sister, and her pet pig, live contentedly in their wood cabin until one day Billy, his sister, Matie, and his sweetheart, Pearl, ride out to the woods and Pearl falls for the prowess of the caveman. Later, Matie, in order to cure Pearl of her infatuation, invites the caveman to a dinner party. He comes accompanied by his sister and the pig. The guests receive one shock after another, and Billy, to get even with Pearl, makes love to sister. When Matie overhears the caveman planning to kidnap Pearl, she gets busy and putting sister in Pearl's hat and long cloak, the caveman is fooled and carries her off, leaving Billy, Matie and Pearl watching, relieved at their departure.
- Billy's rich uncle, with whom he lives in "the great city," has an eye for beauty, and when Billy becomes enamored of Vivian, the dancer, Billy's uncle buys Vivian sumptuous dinners, arguing to himself that the way to the heart of the artiste is via Gastronomograd. Vivian consumes the meals but double-crosses uncle, intriguing with Tottie Twinkletoes to personate her with this purblind late supper philanthropist. Luigi, the tenor, crazy about Vivian and Tottie, make matters unpleasant for both Uncle and Billy by abducting the old gentleman. In the end there are reconciliations and Tottie tags the millionaire, while Billy escapes with Vivian.
- A man is an extra in a film company, but married to the company star. In order to impress those that make fun of him, he invents a story where he showed great bravery on a cannibal island. This brings him the importance he desired, however it is for the colorful scenario to be used as a film, not his heroism.
- The chief source of trouble in the home of a couple who have been married five years without a single moment of discord, is a picture of a woman in tights clipped from a newspaper by a clerk and placed in the belongings of the husband. The affair finds its way to the divorce courts before the innocent cause of the trouble realizes what he has done and puts matters to rights.
- Billle is in debt and besieged by collectors. He faces the alternative of marrying Matie, a dancing girl, and being disinherited by uncle, or taking as his bride Lula, uncle's rich client. He consents to take Lula. They visit the concession where Matie dances. Lula is lured by the applause which Matie wins and Billie's evident admiration of the dancing girl, and secretly engages a dancing Instructor. She and the teacher arrange a surprise in the form of a public appearance for the pupil, and Matie consents to give up her place for one evening to Lula. Uncle has already fallen for Matie's charms. While Lula gets vegetables instead of flowers from the spectators, uncle seeks out Matie. Matie has substituted Lula in her dressing room, and just as uncle, fooled by Lula's besmeared face, holds her in close embrace, he is confronted by Billle and Matie. Whereupon he shows himself a good sport and consents to marry Lula himself.
- Otto, as the professor of bugology in a co-educational institution of the middle west, finds himself confronted with the necessity for catching a upa diadi Coedius, or "kissing butterfly," a very rare specimen, in order to complete the collection of the college. While chasing the upa diadi over the hills. Professor Otto is stalked by a bevy of co-eds who make a bet that all he knows of kissing is the "kissing butterfly," one particularly bold young person offering to bet that she will make the professor kiss her before 10 P.M. While at first indifferent to the lure spread for him, the bug chaser eventually becomes interested, is smuggled by the co-eds into their dormitory, discovered there by the president and involved in all sorts of trouble before matters are satisfactorily explained and the "kissing butterfly" captured.
- Otto, a young newspaper man, receives a letter offering him $10,000 a year as editor of an Alaskan newspaper and advising him to bring his wife. Otto lives in a Bohemian boarding house where there are several pretty girls, but after he has phoned for the minister and begun proposing, they all turn him down because he has left the precious letter at the office and can offer no proof of his good fortune. Meantime Eddie, a fellow boarder and in the same office, finds the letter and takes opportunity to offer himself to Matie, the handsome young artist who occupies the roof studio in Bohemia. Matie snaps at the bait offered and Eddie, to celebrate the event, starts drinking and loses the letter. One of the girls finds it, shows it to the other girls and all, including Matie, start in pursuit of Otto, while Eddie also starts after him with a gun. The chamber maid, always a secret admirer of Otto, saves his life and the minister marries them, to the sorrow of all the girls who have turned him down.