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- Box is a printer. He works all night. Cox is a hatter. He works all day. Box rents a room from Mrs. Bouncer, a lodging-house keeper, telling her he will only use it in the daytime. Cox visits Mrs. Bouncer and asks for a room, telling her he will only use it at night. She rents the same room to both of them. Then starts a strange series of situations. Mrs. B. must get Cox out of bed before Box comes home and Box out of bed before Cox comes home. She uses all sorts of subterfuges to keep Box downstairs in the dining-room while Tillie, the housemaid, chases Cox out of the house and then straightens up the room. This works for a while until one day Cox oversleeps and Mrs. B. thinking he has gone, allows Box to go upstairs. He tumbles into bed and is surprised to find it occupied. A fight follows and Box kicks Cox downstairs. He complains to Mrs. B, and going upstairs with Cox confesses that she had rented the room to the both of them. Box, who up to this moment had not noticed Cox, recognizes him as an old acquaintance and renewing all old ties they agree to share the room together.
- Pearl has two admirers, Chester and Joe. Joe is out walking when a boy hands him a card of Madam Seero, a fortune teller. He determines to visit her and find out if Pearl loves him. Chester also gets one of the cards and also decides to visit the clairvoyant, bent on the same mission as Joe. Pearl sees Joe enter the place and decides to investigate. By a ruse she gets in first and persuades the woman to let her act in her stead, explaining that Joe is one of her admirers and that she wants to have some fun with him. She dresses in Madam's clothes and receives Joe. She reads his palm and he tries to flirt with her. However, after inducing him to give her a pin of his for future recollections, so to speak, she throws him out, where he falls over the surprised Chester, who is waiting in the hall for his turn with the seer. Pearl then beckons Chester to enter. She then proceeds to tell him all about his sweetheart and she is convinced that he is really in love with her, although he is ignorant of the fact that he is confiding his secrets to the one most anxious to hear. Just then a detective enters with a warrant for the fortune teller's arrest, alleging fraud, and insists on taking Pearl with him. Chester intervenes in her behalf and just then the real fortune teller enters and is arrested. Pearl changes her clothes and goes with Chester. They met Joe on the way, and she returns his pin, and then he knows that he was flirting with Pearl and his suit is at an end, leaving Chester in full possession of the field.
- Joe and Harry are visiting Geraldine. They are invited by her father to remain overnight. Joe is afraid of ghosts and Harry determines to play a joke on him. During the night he puts a bed sheet over himself and goes into Joe's room. Joe gets up and starts to run. Harry chases him around the house and father, hearing the noise, gets up to investigate. Joe gets his gun and retreats from the house with father after him. Mistaking the old man for the ghost, he shoots and wounds him in the hand. The boys sneak back to the house, later, and to bed. Father gets the doctor. In the morning Joe imagines that it was a dream. As he finishes telling of it at the breakfast table, father enters and relates how a fool shot him in the hand. Joe realizes his mistake and beats a hasty retreat.
- Death message of intended suicide, made into doll's dress by little girl, exonerates murder suspect.
- Bumski is a pianist. He pays attention to Miss Smooth, who, in spite of his rude manners, treats him as if she were very much smitten with him. This angers her brother and he determines to end matters before they go too far. He induces Maggie, the maid of the scullery, to appear in evening finery, and introduces her to Bumski as a friend of his. Bumski immediately transfers his affections, leaving both Miss Smooth and Dawkins, the butler, who is Maggie's sweetheart, very angry. Maggie tells Bomski that she does not like him to wear his hair so long, and he promises that he will get it cut short. This he does, and the next day, minus his main stock in trade, he again visits the Smooths and asks to see Maggie. Miss Smooth, provoked, takes him to the kitchen, and there he sees Maggie as she really is. He leaves hurriedly and tries to get into Miss Smooth's good graces again, but he is rebuffed. He is ordered out of the house, and he leaves bemoaning the loss of his beautiful hair. Miss Smooth is forever cured of pianists and their temperament, while Maggie returns to her old love, the butler.
- Baldy has a job as cook and bottle washer in a boarding house. He is unpopular with the inmates on account of his prepossessing manner. He reads an ad of a woman who advertises as a wealthy girl that is looking for a husband. Baldy answers the ad. One of the boarders sees him writing the letter and glimpses its contents. He tells the other boarders. They write Baldy a letter that she will arrive the next morning. Baldy goes to the station. A disguised man comes out of the depot, asks for Baldy and kisses him. He takes one look and beats a retreat. The boarders who have been in hiding give chase. Later the real woman appears and Baldy gets in right with her. The boarders bring in the man and introduce him as Baldy's wife. Consternation reigns until the man's wig falls off and Baldy is freed from suspicion of being a bigamist.
- Chester and Harold are admirers of Pearl. She favors Chester. He is visiting her one day and is just about to leave, when Harold arrives. Chester drops a letter out of his pocket and Harold sees it. The letter mentions a certain Belle Archer, and Harold leaves it where Pearl is sure to see it. This she does and immediately becomes angry at Chester. He calls again but she telephones Harold while he is there and Chester leaves in a fury. The next day Chester is on his way to the armory with his gun. He meets Harold and immediately chases him. Harold is afraid that he will be shot and rushes home. Chester, meanwhile, cannot understand Pearl's actions and determines to call on her again. He does so, and demanding an explanation. Pearl shows him the letter that she found. He laughs and shows her another letter, which explains that Belle Archer is a race horse that he was backing and that she had won her race. Pearl immediately comprehends and she and Chester renew old ties, leaving Harold out of all consideration.
- Geraldine and Percy love each other. Her father discovers them kissing and whips Percy. Father orders him never again to visit the house. Percy and Geraldine write notes to father, telling him that unless he consents to their marriage they will commit suicide. Father gives Percy's messenger a revolver to make the job sure. Percy, however, loses his nerve and decides that drowning is easier. When he arrives at the river he accidentally falls in. When Geraldine's father gets her letter he goes to Percy's room. He is informed that Percy has gone down the river. He-arrives there just in time to see Percy being brought out. His heart melts and he gives his consent to the marriage.
- Dick Halstead, a jewelry salesman, is sent to deliver a necklace worth $6,200 to a Mrs. Collingwood, a neighbor of his friends, the Barrys. Tom Barry and his young wife invite Dick to spend a night at their house. As he had to deliver the necklace to his wealthy patron the following day, he accepts. He shows the necklace to Tom and Pearl and they are fascinated by its beauty. They lock it in their safe, the combination of which is known only to Tom and his wife. They retire. Mrs. Barry, addicted to the sleep walking habit, although this was unknown to her husband, gets up in the middle of the night, opens the safe, takes out the jewels, and re-locks the safe. She then wanders around the house and finally goes out into the garden, where she hides the necklace in the hollow trunk of an old tree. She returns to bed. The next morning they come down to breakfast and Dick, being ready to leave, they all go upstairs and Tom opens the safe. To their consternation they find the jewels gone. Dick, nearly frantic with despair, does not know what to do, and Tom and his wife are at a loss to know how to account for the mysterious disappearance, inasmuch as they were the only two who knew the combination to the safe. The strange part of it all was that no other article of value in the safe had been touched. Tom insists that he is responsible to Dick for the loss, as it happened in his house, and immediately mortgages his home to make good Dick's loss, and thus saving his position. Mrs. Barry is nearly heartbroken, and when the detectives gave up all hope of ever finding the thief her sorrows were enhanced. A year passed and during that interval almost every night Mrs. Barry, working under the influences of the subconscious mind, was wont to arise and go to the hiding-place of the jewels and try them on. The mortgage on the home is due and is about to be fore-closed for non-payment, when one night Pearl being ill, Tom goes out to get some medicine for her. She falls asleep and as usual goes out and gets the necklace. When he returns she is holding it in her hand, though it can be seen that she is fast asleep. He cries out in his astonishment and accuses her of being a thief, but only succeeds in awaking her, and then realizing that she had done all this in her sleep, he takes her in his arms and readily forgives her failing, as her finding the necklace enabled them to place Dick absolutely right with his firm, and their money being returned to them, the mortgage was not foreclosed and their home saved.
- Marguerite and Algernon are sweethearts. Marguerite's uncle visits her unexpectedly and Algernon observes him kissing her. He writes her a letter saying she will never see him again. She shows it to her uncle, and they decide to go to his house. Algernon has attempted to have his gun repaired, but the gun-maker returns it, saying it is not worth fixing. Marguerite and her uncle enter as Algernon is looking at the gun. She begs him not to kill himself. He pretends that her pleadings are all that prevent him from doing so. He goes out to buy a bottle of wine. While he is gone, Marguerite finds the gun-maker's letter and waxes angry. She and her uncle leave. Algernon comes back and finds that they have gone. He follows. He arrives at her house, but she snubs him. Marguerite's maid plans a scheme that will bring the two lovers together. She phones Algernon that Marguerite is seriously sick and that he should come over at once. He calls, but Marguerite again snubs him. The maid then tells her that he has been run over by an automobile. Marguerite has him brought into the house where the foolish lovers become reconciled.
- Frank is chief engineer of Mr. Barrows' mining properties. Carlotta, who brings his lunch every day, falls in love with him. Mr. Barrows arrives in Mexico with his daughter, Grace. Frank and Grace become sweethearts. Carlotta becomes jealous. Frank explains to her that he uses cyanide of potassium in testing ore, and that it is deadly poison. Carlotta puts some of the cyanide in some of Frank's food. Pedro sees her. Grace saves Pedro from a beating at the hands of a Mexican, He tells her of Carlotta's treachery. Grace hastens to Frank's cabin and is just in time to dash the food from his hand and thus save his life.
- 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.
- Pearl lives on the same floor as Dick. Dick owns a small puppy, who is always running into Pearl's flat and stealing small articles. Pearl one day notices the puppy and follows him into Dick's apartment. They have an argument. That night Dick gets into an argument with Little Willie and spanks him. The youngster goes upstairs and takes from the door of the flat above a sign, warning people that the inmates have smallpox. Willie takes the sign and nails it on Dick's door. The puppy again enters Pearl's flat and steals one of her shoes. She follows it into Dick's room. A health officer arrives and when Pearl tries to leave, he compels her to re-enter. The two are quarantined. Pearl gets as far away from Dick as possible, thinking him afflicted with the disease. Two surgeons arrive. When Willie informs them that the case is upstairs Dick and Pearl are released from quarantine.
- At Mrs. Belmont's request, her husband gives her money with which to buy a rug. She buys a beautiful Turkish rug, which is delivered to the house that afternoon. A tramp visits the house and when refused food by her, steals it. He escapes with it though Mrs. Belmont gives chase. She informs a policeman of the affair. Mr. Belmont, returning late in the afternoon from the office, is met by the tramp, who wishes to sell the rug. Remembering his wife's desire for one, he purchases it. He is later observed walking along with it by the policeman, and is arrested. Against his protests Belmont is started to the station house. On the way the tramp is met and Belmont asserts loudly that he is the one who sold the rug to him. The policeman arrests them both, takes them to the station house and locks them in a cell. Mrs. Belmont finally arrives, identifies her husband, and he is released. The tramp goes to jail to await trial. On the road home the husband promises wife never again to butt in on household affairs.
- Mr. Stout, who weighs 350, and his wife, who weighs 100, read the advertisement of Prof. Biff Conners that he can make fat people thin and thin people fat. So also do Mr. and Mrs. Slim, who weigh 110 and 400 respectively. They visit the professor's and there he and his pretty assistant, Pearl, induce all four of them to take up a course. The professor has a way of manipulating the scales to suit his purpose and his clients believe they are either gaining or losing weight. In the course of training at the gymnasium, young Mr. Slim puts a pound dumbbell in each of his boxing gloves and proceeds to box with Mr. Stout. He knocks him out. Others interfere and are accorded the same treatment. The professor, hearing the racket, comes in and he gets the same does. Pearl runs out for a cop and the minion of the law is accorded the same treatment. Eventually all is straightened out and the fat and thin couples go home, resolved that they can do nothing to help their condition and resume.
- Charlie leaves his wife, Vivian, after a quarrel. He meets his friend, Don, who, with his horse, has just come from a parade. They have a few drinks. Charlie suddenly sneaks out and rides away on the horse. He runs into people and causes general mix-ups. Finally he decides to go home. Vivian, tired waiting for him, is asleep. She has locked the door. Charlie tries to climb through the window and gets caught. He falls asleep hanging by his trousers. Vivian awakes in the morning and hears Charlie snoring. She cuts him down, and then gives him a fearful tongue lashing. He decides to buy her a new hat as a peace offering. He goes out. On his way back he comes across Don, who immediately engages him in a combat. Charlie gives the hat box to a boy to mind for him, while he does battle. The boy takes the hat out and substitutes in its place a live chicken. Charlie finally escapes. He returns home. Vivian is surprised at his battered appearance. He gives her the hat box. She opens it and the chicken hops out. Vivian then takes Charlie in hand and he suffers.
- After kissing her baby and warning the nurse to be careful of him. Mrs. Skinney enters her home. Her husband enters and shows her an article which states that the city officials are to have a meeting to devise a plan to prevent kidnapping. Being worried about her child's safety she decides to get him. She finds the nurse reading and the baby picking flowers a short distance away. The following day baby is taken out for a walk and the nurse is again warned not to leave him for an instant. Mother then decides to give the girl a scare, thus teaching her a lesson. She plans to kidnap her own child. The nurse takes out her book and begins to read. In a little while a friend comes up to her and they stroll off, leaving the child alone. The mother comes out from behind some bushes and picks up the child. She covers the baby and walks away to see where the nurse has gone to. A little boy who has been picking berries finds the child and takes it home to his mother. The nurse girl, remembering her duty, quickly returns to the bench she previously occupied. She is alarmed to find the child gone. The girl becomes anxious and starts to search for the child. The mother returns and almost collapses when she finds the child has been taken. After a great deal of excitement is caused the baby is found, the nurse is forgiven and each is reconciled to the other.
- Happy, a tramp, finds a horseshoe, and immediately his luck changes for the better. He finds a basket of lunch that a workingman left, and has his first meal in days. He next picks up a cigar butt and is about to smoke it, when a gentleman passes and gives him a good cigar. He walks in the park and from a passing automobile espies a suit case fall therefrom. He picks it up and finding it full of clothes, dons himself out in high class and brand new raiment. Walking along a street he passes a window and the wind blowing a twenty-dollar bill out, it falls in Happy's hat. He kisses the horseshoe and vows never to part with it He goes into a swell restaurant and has a good feed. He emerges and sees a tough assaulting a young woman. He rescues her and while she thanks him, the tough vows vengeance. Happy walks along and the tough gets one of his cronies and pounces on him. They are beating him up, when he pulls out his horseshoe, for luck. A policeman hails in sight and chases all three. Happy, still believing in the horseshoe, hides, and the policeman passes him and arrests the other two. Happy resolves that his horseshoe has brought him some luck and determines to be respectable.
- Dazzle and his wife have a quarrel at the breakfast table. While lighting a cigarette, he sets his newspaper on fire and bums his fingers. His wife's aunt visits them and makes matters worse by insisting that he suffers no pain. She is a Christian Scientist. Dazzle resolves on a hunting trip and writes a friend in Baltimore to wire his wife that business will detain him there for three days. He goes hunting and mistakes a man with a fur coat for a bear, shoots him and gets severely beaten. He gets in other trouble and comes home with a black eye. His wife comes up to his room and opens the door. He claims she hit him in the eye with it. Later, however, the fake telegram arrives, and his deception is discovered.
- Hans and Mike are fascinated by the beautiful actress, Miss Vivian De Gay. They haunt the stage door. Deciding to have some fun at their expense, she accepts an invitation to dine with them. Then she receives a telegram from her husband, who is a rough westerner and the owner of several gold mines, saying that be is on his way home. She leaves them before the meal is over. Her husband arrives. She tells him about Hans and Mike. He joins in the fun and has Vivian write them a letter asking them to call after the matinee. Hans and Mike take Vivian to a restaurant to dine. She phones her husband who hurries to the restaurant. While they are enjoying themselves, he, unseen by Hans and Mike, takes his wife's place at the table and places two pistols under their noses. There are some doings when Hans and Mike see the westerner. When the shooting begins Hans and Mike do a marathon that is a riot.
- Jake and Baldy fight over the widow. They go on a picnic and the widow showers her attentions on Jake, while Baldy is compelled to do the work. He vows vengeance. That night when all is dark, Baldy goes to the widow's chicken coop. He takes a chicken and throws it into Jake's bedroom, locking the window. The next morning the theft is discovered. Baldy volunteers the information that Jake stole the chicken. They get the sheriff, and go to Jake's room. He is about to be arrested when he and Baldy engage in a terrific fight. They are finally separated from trying to kill each other by Jake being carried off to jail while Baldy takes possession of the widow's heart and hand.
- Vivian and her beau have their fortunes told by two gypsies, a man and girl, whom they meet while walking through the woods. For a lark they change clothes with the gypsies. Vivian and her beau mount their horses and start for home. The sheriff, who has been looking for the gypsies, arrest them for horse stealing, sees Vivian and her friend. He and his posse pursue. After many exciting adventures they are captured and put into jail. Vivian and her beau plead innocent. It is of no avail until Vivian's father makes explanations.