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- Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and his athletic training, and soon the two face some difficult decisions.
- Ira Wilton and his son-in-law Harry Bennett resort to the subterfuge of telling their wives that they are members of the Thirteenth Regiment, to be sure of having a night off each week, Friday night, for the regiment drills. They substantiate their deception by bringing into their little game Ira's daughter Laura and her fiancé Jack Brent, a genuine member of the Thirteenth. Their deception runs along nicely until one Friday night when the men have gone to the club, their wives find the invitation, and are just about to start out when they discover that the water pipe has burst. Laura informs the men by telephone what is discovered, and warns them to hurry home. They arrive and find that the kitchen and dining room are flooded, and, after all has been given a good soaking, Lord Dudley, an admirer of Laura, manages to stop the flow of water. Just as the trouble concerning the flood has subsided, Jack Brent arrives home and tells the men that the Thirteenth has been ordered to the front. The husbands, seeing a good chance to take a little vacation, purchase soldiers' clothing and fall in behind the Thirteenth Regiment as it passes their wives, but slip out as soon as it is out of sight. They then go to the barn, where they substitute their soldiers' habiliments for civilian clothes and then make all possible haste to the lake, where they intend to spend a little vacation. But their vacation is short-lived, for one day they see in the newspapers that the entire Thirteenth regiment has been wiped out. They hurry home to the old barn, where they get into their regimentals as quickly as possible--not forgetting to add a few rents here and there, to make it appear as if they have had a terrible struggle at the front and in escaping. When they arrive home they observe that Mrs. Wilton's brother has returned from the West and promised to take care of the "widows." In reply to Lena's (the fat cook), question concerning her lover Conrad, they were just about to tell her that he died with her name on his lips, when in come Harry and Conrad with the news that the newspaper report was all wrong. Ira and Harry fix it up with Conrad, and Jack, desiring to keep on the right side of the old man, tells the women that the men had a terrible fight, and brother Tom forgets about asking questions when a couple of good cigars are shoved into his mitt.
- Colonel Cavendish's wife has an extravagant interest in Army Lieutenant Billy Brinkley, the hero of the Army/Navy Game. When he is assigned to the Colonel's command, her attentions to him are noted and reproved by her husband, who fears gossip. Billy is in love with her sister, Joy Grayson, whom Captain Sutherland also wishes to marry, although he is carrying on a clandestine affair with the Sergeant's wife, Jane Smedley. His presents to Jane are discovered by the Sergeant and she defiantly acknowledges them. Billy and Joy's engagement arouses the jealousy of both Mrs. Cavendish and Sutherland. At a card party, Sutherland's bad feeling toward Billy crops out and they are only prevented from conflict by the other men present. Billy returns to his quarters to find Mrs. Cavendish awaiting him there. She pleads that she can't give him up to her sister. Billy quiets her and insists upon showing her home. Smedley goes to Sutherland and the same night to beg him to cease his dishonorable attentions to Jane. Sutherland replies insultingly. They quarrel, Sutherland springs upon Smedley. In the struggle between Sutherland and Smedley, Smedley stabs Sutherland, killing him. The murder is discovered at once. Billy suspected and found absent from his quarters. Confronted upon his return, he realizes that he cannot prove an alibi without compromising the Colonel's wife. He is arrested by the civil authorities and at the Central Criminal Court the evidence is strongly against him. Mrs. Cavendish finally breaks down and confesses to her husband that she was the woman with Billy. He demands a public confession from her, in court, to clear Billy. As she is about to confess to the court, Smedley. conscience-stricken, rushes in ahead of her and admits that he killed Sutherland. Billy is accordingly exonerated, and he and Joy are united. Mrs. Cavendish's good name is preserved and Smedley receives his just punishment.
- Street people Armand and Marie are madly in love, and she persuades Armand and other gang members to rob the home of Pierre Marcel, a wealthy scientist. The police break up the robbery but Pierre hides Armand from them because he kept a gang member from stabbing him, but Armand is wounded in doing so. When Armand regains his health, Pierre takes him around town and introduces him to many women, and Armand has no objections. Marie - jealous of the women - swears revenge on Marcel. They meet and he falls in love with her, and they are married while Armand is away in London. On their wedding night, Marie tells Marcel she is an Apache and her revenge is complete, and she rushes into Armand's arms. But another Apache, in love with Marie, wounds her with a gun shot.
- A young woman is released from the reformatory where she was unjustly sent. She starts a new life with the help of a judge and an idealistic young minister. But a gang of criminals have made plans that could destroy the new life that she has built.
- Wah-Ta-Wah, or Hist, the lady-love of Chingachgook, a Delaware chief, has been captured by the warlike Hurons. Chingachgook asks the aid of Deerslayer, a white man brought up among the Indians, in rescuing her, and. the two men arrange to meet at Lake Otsego, then called Glimmerglass. Deerslayer sets out for the meeting place, accompanied by Hurry Harry March, a trapper, who acts as his guide. Hurry takes him to meet Hotter, another hunter, who has established a permanent home on the lake. With his two daughters, Judith and Hetty, Hutter lives in a peculiar fortress, called the Castle, set on piles in the middle of the lake, and also spends much of the time on a strange vessel called The Ark, similar to the Castle, but built on a scow. It is on this vessel, fishing up a small stream, that they are found by Deerslayer and Hurry Harry. The two men receive a hearty welcome from Judith, who is betrothed to Harry and who at once greatly admires the evident strength of Deerslayer. News arrives that the Hurons are on the warpath, and all hasten to get the Ark out of the stream and out into the lake. That night, Hurry Harry, Hutter and Deerslayer take the canoe and land on shore. The others wish to go on a scalping expedition to the now unprotected Indian encampment, but Deerslayer will not accompany them. When the camp is attacked, both men are captured and Deerslayer is obliged to return without them, Hatter having charged him with the care of his daughters in case harm should have befallen him. The next day, Deerslayer goes to the foot of the lake, where he meets his friend, Chingachgook, and brings him to the Ark. Hetty, the simple-minded daughter of Hutter, secretly takes the canoe and goes off to shore to plead for her father and Harry whom she loves greatly. She is treated kindly by the Indians, who always revere the simple-minded and given the freedom of the camp. While there, Hetty meets Hist, and having told her that Chingachgook is at the Ark, she is given a message for him. She is brought back the nest day to the Ark by one of the Indians, who is given a present for his chief by Deerslayer, who offers a ransom for his friends. Harry and Hatter are exchanged for a pair of ivory chessmen, castles mounted on elephants, and are soon back again with Deerslayer and the anxious girls. Hist had sent a message saying that she would be awaiting her lover at sunset, and accordingly Chingachgook and Deerslayer set off to fetch her. By heading off the Indians in another direction, Deerslayer makes good the escape of Hist and Chingachgook, but is himself captured. Rivenoak, the Huron chief, promises Deerslayer his life if he will join the tribe and marry Samac, wife of a brave he had killed in the struggle, but he will not accept the offer. Hutter has not been near the Castle for some days and goes there with Hurry Harry, notwithstanding the warning they receive from Chingachgook. They are ambushed by the Hurons, who scalp Hutter. Harry gets away and brings the dreadful news to his daughters at the Ark. He proposes that Judith, long betrothed to him, now marry him, that he may have the right to protect her and her sister. She refuses because of the secret love she had conceived for Deerslayer from the moment she first saw him. Hurry then leaves the two girls in the care of Chingachgook and Hist and goes to the British fort, where he tells of the death of Hutter and the capture of Deerslayer, and asks for aid. While he is gone, Judith, who would give her life for the man she loves, goes to the camp, masquerading as a queen, seeking the release of Deerslayer. The Indians, who have never seen her before, are at first taken in, but her identity is unwittingly betrayed by Hetty to Chief Rivenoak. The chief tells Judith that at sunset the brave Deerslayer must die. Meanwhile, Hurry Harry March is bringing the soldiers towards the Indian camp. They arrive just in time to prevent the death of Deerslayer and rout the Indians after a short but sharp skirmish. When all fighting is over and examination made of the wounded, it is found that Hetty has been hit by a stray bullet and is dying. In her last words she confesses her love for Hurry Harry, and, asking a kiss from him, dies in his arms, Judith, now deprived of father and sister both, is offered a home by the captain of the soldiers, who will take her back with him to his wife and sisters at the fort. She will not at once answer him, however, but asks time to consider what she shall do. She goes with Deerslayer a little apart from the camp and there confesses her love for him, telling him that if he returns her love, she will understand by his silence. Deerslayer listens to her gravely and with all respect, but answers not a word. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- A couple endure 365 days of marriage in order to inherit money.
- Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Phillipines. To do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please his commanding officer's daughter, whom he has been romancing.
- Birthday or no birthday, John Bunny has to go to his city office just the same. On this particular occasion he has an unusually tiring days work and arrives home completely fagged out. His wife and son, Dave, have prepared a surprise for him in the shape of a dinner-party, to which several guests have been invited. Not knowing of this, Bunny, who is feeling absolutely all in, goes straight to his room and gets into bed instead of dressing for dinner, as is his usual custom. In the dining room, his wife and the guests are anxiously awaiting his arrival. Mrs. Bunny turns off the lights and instructs the guests to rise and give him a rousing cheer when he enters the room and switches them on. Then she calls to her husband to hurry, as she wants him. Not expecting company. Bunny descends the stairs in his pajamas, and is seen in that garb by the scandalized guests when he turns on the electric lights. Indignant at what they consider a very poor kind of a joke, they all depart hastily, leaving Bunny to comfort his sorrowing wife and explain matters as best he can. Before he goes upstairs to don his dress clothes, his son, Dave, arrives with his sweetheart, Ethel, who also sees him in flimsy attire and flees from the room with a horrified shriek. Dave rushes after her and explains things. After a good laugh at her future father-in-law's expense, she consents to stay to dinner.
- Alice sues husband Robert for divorce for adultery. When her lawyer is murdered, her husband is charged. At the murder trial, as each witness speaks, we see the events they describe. A new witness pops up.
- Mary, a poor but well-born girl, is invited to join a sorority club in the high school she attends, while her chum, Sophie, is ignored. Mary is flattered by the attention, accepts the invitation and gradually drifts away from her former friends. The spirit of snobbishness and unrest enters her life, and in her attempt to keep up with her richer companions, who are purse-proud and pretentious, she changes from a lovable girl into a discontented one. A sorority dance is arranged and Mary, unable to pay the assessment for the dance, steals the amount from one of the members of the club, in order to keep up with her new associates. The other members are so self-centered they do not realize the influence of their false pretenses and mistaken ideas of true worth. They are entirely unaware of the demoralizing effects of their example. Having taken the first step, Mary is still further tempted when she finds a new gown for the dance to be an impossibility. While shopping with a club member, she steals a pair of stockings and a roll of silk. A house detective sees her commit the theft, taking the two terrified girls into the manager's office. The silent partner of the firm is the father of the girl from whom Mary has first stolen. He investigates Mary's actions by gentle questions. She breaks down and sobbingly confesses that she did not wish the girls of the sorority to be ashamed of her. The father understands the situation. He takes the two girls with him to the sorority rooms, where he explains Mary's temptations and their false notions of the real standards of life, also explaining that character is the only criterion of personal superiority. The girls are convinced of their error, forgive Mary and dissolve the sorority. Mary once more becomes a normal sweet girl with wholesome surroundings.
- The man, Adam, not content to he alone, unto him was given a woman, Eve. They are happy and content, until one day, there comes to their home a tempter. They take him in, feed and house him over night, and during his stay, he shows them many trinkets, laces and other finery, which appeals to the woman's vanity, and she begs her husband to buy them for her. His scant earnings as a gardener cannot cater to the indulgence of luxuries, and he refuses. She pleads with him and when the peddler retires for the night, Eve persuades Adam to steal from the peddler's pack that she may possess that which she craves. Adam succumbs to her enticement and the seeds of sin are sown and their happiness and peace of mind depart from them from that time henceforth. In the morning, when the peddler leaves, they would believe that their unhappiness had gone with him, but not so, they must reap that which they have sown and the disquieting spirit of evil hath taken possession of their hearts and home. When the peddler discovers that he has been robbed, he is fired with the spirit of revenge and immediately reports his loss to the town authorities, who hasten to apprehend the culprits. On their way, the news spreads among the townspeople, who pretend to be inspired with righteous indignation, but in reality they secretly rejoice in the downfall of their weak and foolish neighbors. Brought face to face with the peddler, Adam and Eve confess their guilt and the discovery of the stolen property at once convicts them. Imprisonment is the penalty of their crime, but through their appeals for mercy, they are condemned to banishment.
- Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney, who later frames Jack for murder.
- Young Jamie loved a lassie and she loved him. His love was strong but his purse was weak, and so he went to sea to make his fortune with which to claim his lassie as his bride. The good ship "Ben Lomond" bore him away, and while he was on the seas the lassie's father had his arm broken, when the gypsies stole their cow and the mother of the lassie was taken sick. They were poor folk and the lassie was obliged to spin and weave, keep the house, care for her father and nurse her mother. "Auld Robin Grey," a friend of the family, generous and true, aids them in the time of their need and kindly bestows his beneficence whenever he can do so without pretension or obtrusion. He likes the father and the mother, but he loves the daughter. He asks her to marry him. Her parents favor good old Robin Grey, but the daughter still loves Jamie, and she cannot give heart and hand to another. Men must work and women must weep, but it seems the poor lassie must do both, for it is not long before there is great sorrow and excitement among the town folk. The ship "Ben Lomond" is announced as wrecked, with Jamie and all on board lost. They try to keep the news from Jenny, but bad news travels quickly, and despite Robin Grey's efforts to have the shock come to her as gently as possible she sees the bulletin posted on the outside of the ship chandler's and is supported from falling by her faithful friend Robin. Giving up her Jamie as gone to a watery grave, she is urged to marry Robin Grey, while her heart is at the bottom of the sea. Robin proves a good husband and she tries to be a good wife to him, although she does not love him. Like one from the dead Jamie escapes the wreck and comes back to claim Jennie's hand and heart. She can scarcely believe she sees aright, and she is not easily convinced that her Jamie is alive and talking to her, and when she does realize it she tells him she is the wife of "Auld Robin Grey," and he is a good man and she will do her best to be a faithful wife to him. Jamie and she kiss and then part from each other, to go their own ways as their consciences direct.
- Upon his wife's death, attorney George Blake places his pretty daughter Lucy in a convent, then leaves the East. After traveling from place to place for a few years, trying to find some location in which he might be happy, he settles in Lariat Hollow, a mining town. He soon falls in love with a dance-hall woman named Anne. This incites the jealousy of Larkin, the town's political boss. To break George Blake, Larkin nominates him for mayor, purposing to have him defeated. Anne suspects the plot and tries to influence Blake to refuse the nomination, but Blake has given his word to enter the contest and goes in to win. Lucy writes to her father that she wishes to remain in the convent and become a nun; he gives his consent. Now with every Eastern tie severed, he asks Anne to marry him. She accepts, but says they will wait until after the election, fearing to ruin what political chances he might have by an alliance with a dance-hall woman. The election occurs and Larkin's confederates defeat Blake. On election night, Lucy arrives unexpectedly from the convent, having decided that she hasn't "the calling" after all. In his house of trouble, Blake is glad to have her back. Anne wanders out alone through the autumn forest, living through her "Gethsemane." She returns to Blake's cabin and tells him: "Lucy, your daughter, has the first claim on you. You must take her back East, away from me to the surroundings in which she belongs." Anne takes the girl in her arms and kisses her, then turns to Blake, bids him a last farewell, and goes into the forest alone.
- Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father's rich friend.
- The Craigs and the Smiths, next-door neighbors, are the best of friends until Smith builds a chicken house. Their two gardens are connected and their children fraternize as if all belonged to one large family. Sidney Craig manages to set loose Smith's chickens, who get into Craig's garden and work havoc among his pet seedlings. Each blames the other's child for the mishap and the war between the two families is on. A spite fence is built between the two gardens, entirely shutting them off from each other, and the children of each family are forbidden to speak to one another. After a while the two families settle down to a sort of armed neutrality--until Jessie Smith returns from school and Jimmy Craig from college. The two young people are in love and take not the least notice of their parents or the spite fence. They spoon just the same, erecting ladders and kissing over the garden wall. Their parents discover them and war is immediately renewed. The last straw is added when a dead cat is exchanged over the wall and a free-for-all fight takes place between the various members of the two families, with the exception of Jessie and Tom. The combat comes to a sudden stop when Tom knocks over Craig's beehives and all are obliged to take refuge in the barn, Tom and Jessie remaining outside and hiding in the cellar until the bees have quieted down. Tom manages to lock the door of the barn and refuses to release anyone until both Smith and Craig shall agree to his marriage to Jessie. A slight incident in the barn having brought about a reconciliation between the two men, their families follow suit and they emerge to bless the engagement of their children.
- Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash. In the struggle the gambler's pistol is discharged and he is accidentally shot. Dick is arrested and his brother is appointed by the court to defend him. Tom, not recognizing his brother, makes a strong defense in his behalf and a touching plea in introducing the locket, pleading exoneration for the man who would defend an insult to his mother, Tom opens the locket and recognizes their mother. He is filled with a sense of his duty and shows clearly and concisely the accidental discharge of the gambler's pistol and so cleverly presents this phase of the case that Dick is acquitted. Tom takes his brother to his home, where he is recognized by his two children as the man who saved their home from robbery and they lovingly embrace him. Tom's wife is introduced to her brother-in-law and it is not long before Dick is in a good position and an honored member of his brother's family.
- That the way to a man's heart is by means of his appetite, is strikingly shown. Mother-in-law comes to visit the newly wedded couple and finds the young man somewhat discontented. It is no wonder, for his wife is so engrossed in her "art," although only an amateur, that she forgets all about cooking dinner and such like trivialities. Her mother shows her the error of her ways and son-in-law becomes very fond of her. Wifey's jealousy is aroused and she shows that she can cook just as well. Having restored harmony to the household, mother-in-law returns home, leaving nothing but happy memories behind her.
- In the third year of the reign of Jeholakim, king of Judah, the city of Jerusalem is besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, and Daniel is brought captive unto Babylon, with Shadrach, Meshac and Abednego, who were of the Children of Israel. And unto Ashpenaz, the master of the eunuchs, the King commands that he should bring unto him from the captives of the prison, certain of the Children of Judah skillful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge, to whom shall be taught the learning and tongue of the Chaldeans. Among those selected were Daniel, Shadrach, Meshac and.Abednego, who have ten times more understanding and wisdom than all the astrologers and magicians in the king's realm. Daniel has understanding in all visions and dreams, and is the only man in all the land of Chaldea who is able to make known and interpret unto King Nebuchadnezzar the dream which troubles his spirit. Then the King makes Daniel a great man, and his three brethren are made governors over the provinces of Babylon. But when they have risen to favor and Daniel sits in the gate of the king, jealous conspirators plot against the four Children of Israel and they cause the king to set up in Babylon a great, monstrous golden image, which all must worship at the sound of the music, or, on their refusal, they are to be cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. On the day when all the princesses, the governors, the captains, the judges, the treasurers, and counselors, the sheriffs, the rulers of the provinces and all the people are gathered together unto the dedication of the image, Daniel is away upon a mission, but Shadrach, Meshac and Abednego stand among the prostrate multitude and will not fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar, the king, had set up. The king, in his rage and fury commands the mighty men of his army to bind the three Jews and to cast them into the burning, fiery furnace. A phantom-like form, "like unto the Son of God," appears among the three that are cast in, and they walk in the midst of the fire and the flames harm them not. Then Nebuchadnezzar stands at the mouth of the burning, fiery furnace and calls unto Shadrach, Meshac and Abednego that they should come forth, and the king praises their God before all his people. After Nebuchadnezzar and Belchazzar, Darius is King of the Chaldeans and he sets over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes, and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel is the first. The princes render accounts unto the presidents, Daniel is a faithful servant unto the king, and he watches that the king suffers not any damage from the revenues which are rendered unto him. But the presidents and the princes are angered and they seek to find some fault against Daniel, but no error or fault can they find in him. But it so happens that near unto the king is a woman of great beauty and charm, and she is favored with the king's love. Unto her the princes go and they do bribe her to cause the king to sign a firm decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days save from the king, shall be cast into the lions' den. So this woman of great beauty and charm goes to the king when he is at a great banquet and she offers him goblets of fine wine. And when the king is overcome with the wine she holds the tablet of the decree before his eyes and he signs it without knowing of its contents. On the following day Daniel is found on his knees praying to his God and he is brought before the king. The king does not remember that he signed the decree and is sorrowful, and he would deliver Daniel from the princes, but they say unto him that his decree may not be changed, saying unto him, "Know O King, that the law of the Medes and the Persians is, that no decree or statute which the king establisheth, may be changed." Then Daniel is cast into the den of lions. And the lions are fierce and hungry, and when Daniel is thrown into their midst, they growl and show their great teeth, but soon they are quiet and gentle as little kittens, and they look up into Daniel's face with love. Daniel knows that his God has tamed the hungry lions and he lies down in their midst and sleeps. The next morning the king and all the princes come to the cage, and when the king sees that Daniel is delivered, he is glad and he commands that he should be brought out of the den. Then the king blesses Daniel, but for the men who accused him, he commands that they be cast unto the lions, and when they are cast in the lions devour their detail and break all their bones in pieces, and the people wonder and tremble at the power of the God of Israel.
- When Mr. Burney returns home he is entirely too stout to suit Fanny, his pretty young wife. She decides that his excessive corpulence must be removed. Much to Burney's discomfort, he is put on a severe diet. Almost starved, he sneaks into the kitchen and gets the kind-hearted maid to give him some pie, chocolate cake, and doughnuts. Just as he is about to start in eating, in comes Fanny and all the food is taken from him. Fanny sends for cousin Jack Gordon, He brings some dumb bells and Indian clubs. When she is thanking him affectionately for his kindness, the inquisitive maid, peeking through the keyhole, sees her and wonders what it means. Mr. Burney is so fat he cannot stand much exercise. Though Fanny continually measures him with a tape measure and urges him to swing the clubs some more, he soon gives up exhausted.in despair, Fanny tries all sorts of remedies. She makes hubby run through the country on a hot summer's day all dressed up in sweaters and woolens. She installs a gymnasium in the house and makes him take violent exercises. She repeats the diet in a more heroic form, all to no avail. At last, seeing a fat-reducing medicine advertised, she gets a large bottle of it and puts some in his coffee. The conscientious maid sees her doing it and when Mr. Burney starts to drink the coffee she frantically stops him and tells him that it contains poison. She also tells him of Jack Gordon. Going to Gordon's house to demand an explanation. Mr. Burney finds there a torn piece of a letter signed by his wife. The fragment makes Fanny out a criminal; it speaks of a "Bottle, given secretly, unpleasant, James is out of the way!" Burney gets a detective and accuses Fanny of trying to murder him. All ends happily when Gordon comes around with the other part of the letter, and Fanny produces the bottle of fat reducer which the letter speaks of.
- Love finds a way, that in very plain, when Sam and Doris make use of their father's new hat to convey their love missives to each other, because Doris' father objects to his clerk's attention to his daughter. Doris Mason and Sam meet whenever they can and her father is not altogether unsuspecting, very evidently, when he hurries into the sitting room. Sam escapes without being seen. The next morning Doris sends a note to Sam by placing it in the sweat-band of papa's hat. Sam is working hard at his desk when his boss arrives at the office, but he does not fail to reach for the hat as soon as Mason places it on the rack and extract Doris' note from the band. Later in the day, Sam deposits his note in the band and upon the boss's arrival at home for lunch, Doris finds the following epistle: "Dearie: Let's elope. Pack up and meet me at the fountain in Riverside tonight." Doris quickly answered it as follows: "Dearest Buddy: The fountain at Riverside will be most convenient for me. We can leave on the 7:30. Love and kisses." This is deposited in Pop's hat and he hurriedly leaves the house. Mr. Mason, feeling the need of a shave, stops in the barber's, and after having his face scraped, takes Henpeck's hat in mistake for his own. When Henpeck gets shaved he hastily picks up Mason's hat and goes home. Mrs. Henpeck takes his hat and the note falls out. She reads it and goes out determined to confront the brazen huzzy. Henpeck dashes after her. In the meantime. Mason discovers his mistake and goes to the barber's to learn who carried off his hat. Henpeck comes in with the same purpose. Explanations follow. Mason guesses where the note came from and together the two men do a marathon for the fountain. Here they find Mrs. Henpeck giving Doris a piece of her mind. Mason pacifies her and Doris confesses. While this is going on, Sam makes his appearance. Mr. Mason advises them to elope as they had planned and sends them rejoicing on their way.
- Larry is the suitor for the hand of a charming young lady whose father favors a big rough guy. Almost the entire action takes place inside the home of the girl during a severe electric storm. The manner in which Larry and the other principal are being continually struck by lightning and the way the lightning follows Larry all over the place, up and down stairs and around corners, is cleverly done.
- Young reporter Billy Joy's chief tells him that if he will secure certain letters connected with a prominent divorce scandal, he will raise his wages $10 a week. This increase will make Billy rich enough to marry his sweetheart, Claire Taylor. Mrs. Gardner shows Claire the letters Billy disguises himself as a milkman and makes love to Mrs. Gardner's cook to induce her to help him get a look at the letters in the case. While holding the cook on his lap, in the kitchen, Claire Taylor, his sweetheart, calls on Mrs. Gardner. During her visit, Mr. Gardner shows Claire the letters and explains to her their connection in the divorce case. Wishing some refreshments, Mrs. Gardner rings for the cook, who does not respond. She hurries to the kitchen, accompanied by Claire, and there they discover the cook sitting on Billy's lap. Claire, who still has Mrs. Gardner's letters in her hand, is so astonished at seeing her fiancé in such a compromising position, drops the letters upon the floor and will not listen to Billy's explanations; leaving the kitchen thoroughly disgusted. Billy has his eyes on the letters, snatches them from the floor, places them in his pocket and makes for the Editorial Rooms of his newspaper. His Chief, delighted with Billy's work, gives him the promised raise of salary, and straightens things between him and Claire, clearing up his attentions to Mrs. Gardner's cook.