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- An actor unlucky in work, money and love goes back home to the deep south to help out during a family crisis and is inspired to find his true voice as his mother is finally finding hers.
- A young lady looking for romance finds it in the theater where she sits, night after night, gazing at the same man. When she advertises for a maid the man dresses in feminine attire and answers the ad, gains the position, and finally, after discovery becomes the affianced lover of the girl.
- Jack brags about his wife's cooking so much that the boys in the office invite themselves over for dinner. Mary tries to cook a turkey but she burns it, so she steals a turkey from the neighbors.
- A pair of youthful sweethearts try to discover what kind of a girl the young man's rich uncle would like him to marry. She interprets the demure, quiet little girl knitting for the Red Cross, who is of a retiring nature and always industrious, seeming to have no time for frivolities. Then there is the little domestic girl, who loves to potter about with pots and pans, working over steaming kettles, constantly applying the dust cloth and broom. As the sporty girl in riding habit she handles a horse, drives a car and is constantly active in an athletic way. As the vampire she charms both old and young, but uncle with his gray hair and nose glasses seems to fall hardest.
- When her husband decides that three new hats a day is too many for any wife to buy, Elinor finds a way out of this predicament by having her friend the chief of police arrest her husband and turn the fine over to her for another hat.
- A wife's bank balance is constantly overdrawn. Her husband lets her go to jail to teach her a lesson, but he gets a $100 fine from the court when it is revealed that the offending check has been drawn in favor of the American Red Cross.
- A man and a woman of mature years marry. One of them has a son at college and the other a daughter, and each is in ignorance of the others encumbrance. The home-coming of the children makes it necessary either to "fess up" or to still guard the secret. The latter method of dealing with the situation is chosen, and the young man taking the place of the butler and the young woman the place of the maid opens up some funny situations, which ends in a thorough understanding by all parties and the betrothal of the youthful pair.
- Mary's aunt thinks that all men are liars, so she convinces Mary to put Jack's faithfulness to the test.
- The girl friends of the heroine bet her that she cannot masquerade as a man without being detected. She gets a position in a hotel as a bell boy and is taken for a spy by a young man who has previously admired her. In taking a message for a woman in the hotel, which consists of bringing from the repair shop an alarm clock, she is pursued by the young man up and down stairs, and is finally discovered by her friends when he pulls off her wig.
- The fathers of an engaged couple decide to arrange an elopement rather than spend $5,000 on a wedding.
- Bettie wigwags signals to her sweetheart, Jimmie, which results in Jimmie winning out in spite of mother's plan that Bettie shall marry an Italian lieutenant who poses as a nobleman.
- Jim is an ambitious lawyer, but money hasn't come his way, so he and his wife, Nell, have to live in a small apartment and skimp. Nell, unknown to Jim, applies at an employment agency for a job as housemaid, to help out on finances.
- Jack is always complaining that Mary isn't as good a cook as his mother. With the help of Jack's mother, Mary comes up with a way to stop Jack's complaining.
- At a seaside vacation a palm reader warns Mary to beware of blondes. She tells her boyfriend Jack, and he promises to have eyes only for her, but suddenly the beach is full of blondes.
- A wife suspects her husband has turned burglar in order to buy her furs, the husband thinks his wife a burglaress when he finds her manipulating some burglar tools. When a cop suddenly appears at the house, each tries to save the other.
- A young married man boasts that his wife had not asked him to give up any of his former habits, such as smoking. No sooner said than his wife asks him to forgo his usual after dinner smoke. He promises to do so on condition that she give up using face powder. A number of mildly amusing incidents occur in connection with the bargain, and the affair ends by each leaving the other to the enjoyment of their usual customs.
- A couple returning from their honeymoon have many friends to contend with.
- Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty who's dad believes Cash Is King.
- Planning to fleece wealthy Henry Dodd, Blackie Blaisdell and his band of crooks convince the millionaire that they have located the deposed president of San Salvador, a country in which Dodd holds mining interests. Meanwhile, Harry, a secret service agent on Blackie's trail, learns of the scheme and falls in love with Dodd's daughter, Dorothy. Dodd objects to the courtship until Harry prevents Blackie and his pals from carrying out their scheme. Out of gratitude, Dodd approves of Harry and Dorothy's marriage. All goes well until their wedding night when, as a practical joke, Dorothy's girl friends lock her in Harry's folding bed and deliver it to Peter, her former suitor. Harry follows and in the ensuing chase, runs into Blackie who has escaped from jail. After Harry arrests the crook, Dorothy's practical joke is explained, and the lovers kiss and make up.
- Two young men In love with the same girl buy diamond engagement rings exactly alike. The first one to propose becomes the victim of a frame-up by his rival, who mails to number one a note written to him by the girl telling him that all is over between them, and enclosing the ring. The close of the picture finds the villain in sore straits when his marriage to the girl is interrupted by her first sweetheart.
- A young woman who had promised to elope changes her mind. A burglar entering her room locks her in a closet and after clearing the house of its valuables, attires himself in her clothes and meets the hero at the bottom of the ladder, rides away with him, and is finally collared by the detective. A reconciliation between the father and his daughter's sweetheart takes place.
- A frame-up on the part of the lover's father, mother, and sister causes a lively roundup which almost makes the young lady propose. Finally she gets in the game herself and pretends to elope with her lover's friend. A wedding party at the minister's home with a breathless bridegroom is the result.
- Jack's father refuses to allow him to marry an actress. Mary offers to aid Jack by compromising father. But she flirts with the wrong man and gets into a peck of trouble. Even her own sweetheart goes back on her. But finally everything is explained and father's consent to the marriage won.