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- Mrs. Van De Water gives a coming-out ball for her daughter, at which Crayton Coombs, a millionaire roué with an incurable disease, meets and falls in love with the girl. The mother is flattered at the match with the millionaire, and though both Ethel and Dr. Holt, Coombs' physician, beseech the mother to break off the engagement, she insists that the wedding take place. One day, Holt's assistant, Dr. Howard, is summoned to take care of Ethel, who is ill, and the two are mutually attracted. Later Howard is called to a tenement district where he cares for Helen Grayson, Coombes' ex-wife, and tells her of his approaching marriage and she promises to help him win Ethel. After she marries Coombes, he takes her to his country home,and that night when he is sitting alone in front of the fireplace, his former wife appears, and after recalling their wedding and telling him what a beast he has grown to be, advises double suicide. The frightened man consents, and soon after, Ethel discovers the two dead bodies before the fireplace. She is then free to marry Dr. Howard.
- To find material for his book on the psychology of women's minds, the writer deliberately makes his wife jealous by seeming to have relations with an actress, whom in reality he never sees, so that he may study the effect of the emotion. On the discovery that her husband has tortured her for his science, the young wife leaves, but is injured by an automobile and taken to a hospital. At the same time, the actress kills the artist friend of the writer, who has posed as the psychologist, and the finding of the scientist's card outside the actress' window, leads the detectives to believe that the murder was committed by him. The final confession of the actress of her crime, after she had been fatally shot by her pistol which she hid in the hopes of covering her guilt, frees the psychologist from the law, and the forgiveness of his cruelty by his wife on her sick bed restores them to their former state of happiness.
- Hughes is a gigantic Welshman who lives with his mother and little daughter, having lost his wife through a serious illness. Miller, his assistant, is a young American, athletic, and a good miner who is engaged to Bessie Evers, a mine foreman's daughter. Both men are employed in the same mine. Bessie is very fond of Hughes' little girl. One day Hughes happens along just in time to rescue Bess from the embraces of a drunken Mexican and immediately he falls in love with the pretty girl. He despairs upon learning that she is already engaged to Miller and soon finds hatred creeping into his heart for the young American, causing a breach between them. Hughes' little girl goes to feed the mascot of the mine, a mother cat, and lingers to play with the kittens. An accident occurs in which a fuse prematurely explodes, imprisoning the little girl and many of the miners. All of the miners become exhausted in their struggle for freedom except Hughes and Miller, who work untiring until at last the way is opened. In their combined effort to preserve human life, the hatred vanishes and the two men become close friends.
- Jessie James is a poor cleaning girl, but one night after reading an adventure novel she turns into a rabble rousing bandit in search of loot.
- Patrick Casey is convicted of burglarizing the safe of the office which he watches nights, and is sentenced to twenty years in prison at the testimony of Bemis, the junior member of the robbed firm, who is the real thief. Bonnie, his wife, promises that she will remain unchanged until he is released. Ten years pass. Alice is about to be graduated from college, Michael is about to enter the bar, and Joe and Josephine, the younger children, are in school. Astor, the son of Bemis, has also grown up. He meets Alice in school, and falls in love with her. On commencement day, Astor and his mother go with Alice and Michael to call on Bonnie. The old-fashioned ways of Patrick's wife and the unpretentiousness of the little home do not appeal to the proud mother of Astor, and Alice, made unhappy by her attitude, gives Astor up. When the elder Bemis confesses on his deathbed, however, the guilt which he has had on his conscience these many years, Alice and Astor are reconciled, and Patrick is freed to come home to Bonnie and his grownup bairns.
- Aunt Matilda arrives to take charge of her brother's ranch and his daughters, whom she discovers are in love with their two cowboys. Matilda fires the cowboys and advertises for girls to take their place. The boys return dressed as girls.
- Fite, a workingman, who has saved money to send for his wife and daughter, falls in with a couple of crooks. They decide to rob him, but upon learning his story they decide not to. Jeff Brandsford, cowboy and adventurer, has lost all his money and falls in with Ballinger, nephew of a rich man who will not advance him money. Jeff saves Fite from hanging himself and then he meets Ballinger and they decide to help Fite out, he having lost all of his money. Fite gets back his money and some time later, after working hard, Ballinger returns to his uncle's house where he claims Nona, his uncle's ward, as his wife.
- Louie gets an idea. He tells Heinie he will marry an heiress. He does and leads her to the altar in her own drawing room. Getting sore at the wedding because the best man kisses the bride, Louie swats him. They clinch and destroy the wedding supper. Louie sneaks out on the porch and is kidnapped by serenaders and carried twenty miles away. On his way back he meets Heinie and a pal who insist on food. Louie invites them home with him. They steal a goose for the occasion. Arriving home, they cook the goose without cleaning it. It blows up, fills the house with smoke and feathers, and wakes the family. The cop, who has seen them steal the goose, arrests Louie. Heinie and the bum escape and Louie, seeing that the jig is up, dives through the window and beats it. Rejoining Heinie, they go to the country, following the road called "Nowhere."
- Josette, the pet of mamma and papa, was engaged to be married to Joe Jackson. The engagement proceeded exquisitely until one day during tea at Josette's there came a telegram. The telegram was from his father, stating that Joe must acquaint himself thoroughly with the business routine of the family's chain of warehouses all over the world before he could marry and become one of the family business heads. The firm was large and it would take him at least a year to accomplish the task. Mamma and papa as well as Andre Ternay, Josette's godfather, a jolly bachelor, were all at the party. Consternation reigned. Amidst tears, Joe left Josette to embark on his tour of the family warehouses. Then another startling bit of news was later received. Josette's Aunt Amelia, who was very wealthy, died, and her will revealed the fact that her wealth went to Josette if she married during her eighteenth year and no later. Josette was just eighteen. By the time Joe Jackson would return from his tour of inspection she would be nineteen. It was on the night that Andre was having a very informal and decidedly Bohemian dinner at his bachelor apartments that Josette, who had been sitting with her mama and papa in the living room of their home, leaped suddenly to her feet, her face all smiles again after a week of gloom. "I have it," she cried impetuously. "Have what?" demanded her mama, disturbed in the reading of a delicious scandal on the front page of the evening paper. "I'll let you know. I must go to Andre Ternay's at once." From this point complications set in which make this comedy-drama an unusual mixture of laughter and tears.
- A new clerk meets a girl in the park, not knowing she is the daughter of his employer. He falls in love with her and they soon arrive at a mutual understanding where a consultation with the parents as to wedlock becomes necessary.
- Heinie and his pal crawl out from the sewer from where they have spent the night. They decide that the world owes them a living, and go to find it. They bamboozle a boarding house landlady into giving them a room for which they promise to pay her that afternoon. They raid the kitchen for food, but are caught. Then they try to get away with a trunk filled with the fixings of the room. They are again captured and put to work in the kitchen, helping the cook. As usual, they start things which end in a smashup all around, and a gentle ride down the street with the officer of the law.
- Davy Crockett is madly in love with a blonde young lady who also looks good to several members of a ferocious band of Indians that inhabit the backwoods. After a meeting with Davy one day, she is surprised and kissed by one of her red-skinned lovers, which makes her so indignant that she stops to thrash him and is captured by the band and scalped. Losing her fore lock does not seriously injure her health. She escapes to her Davy, and is taken to the hut of his parents and introduced as his future wife. A battle with the Indians follows, in which an intelligent redskin or two secures entrance into the cabin. The lives of all concerned are saved by a bunch of hardtack biscuits aimed at the Indians heads. Wedding bells ring merrily for Davy and the blonde heroine when the scene becomes calm enough to admit a minister.
- Ethel Lake is thwarted by her father in her desire to marry Jack Burton. One day she finds a letter addressed to her father, in which he is asked to meet a friend at a gambling resort. Ethel's adventurous blood is aroused and she decides to follow her father. Disguised in her brother's clothes and a mustache, she too goes to the gambling house, after telling her mother she is going on a visit. The place is raided, and Ethel and her father are caught and sentenced to 10 days' hard labor. She is placed in the same cell as her father, but he does not recognize her. One day Jack Burton is passing the prison grounds and recognizes Mr. Lake. When the 10 days are up and Ethel has returned from her "visit" and Mr. Lake from his "business trip," Jack calls at the house, asks to speak to Mr. Lake privately, and demands the right to marry Ethel; on the old gentleman's refusal he tells him that he saw him at the prison and threatens to expose him if he doesn't give his consent. Father acquiesces, but when the changes in his attitude towards Ethel's lover arouses the comment of his wife. Ethel at last comes forth with an explanation of what has transpired, and matters are settled satisfactorily for the entire family.
- Dotty and her father take refuge in a sanitarium, where rest and fresh air are prescribed. Installed in a wheel chair, Dotty is taken to the sanitarium grounds where she falls in love with a wealthy young man.
- Lillian and her father, a forty-niner, who drives the old stage roach, assist the former's son, a deputy marshal, to arrest Jose, a renegade Mexican. Jose later escapes. The old father is just mounting the stage when he drops to the ground with a bullet wound. Jose appears and tells Lillian that his chance for revenge has arrived. He ties her on top of the stage and then starts the horses going madly. The runaway stage is fast approaching a broken bridge when Lillian manages to free herself and jumps into the arms of one of the cowboys, who had galloped madly to head off the runaway. A minute later the stage tumbles over the high embankment. The deputy sheriff clambers on a speeding freight train in pursuit of the fugitive and grapples with him. Losing his balance, the Mexican falls to his death in the river below.
- Joe and Jack, ranch hands, are madly in love with Jennie, the ranchman's daughter, who finds little to her liking in the latter. However, to test the depth of Joe's feelings, she allows Jack to gain a margin over Joe's advances, cultivating his society to an extent that makes Joe furious with jealousy. Jennie is glad to notice these symptoms and is about to reward Joe by accepting him as her accredited sweetheart, when Jack makes it plain that he has no intention of allowing her affections, simulated though they were, to lag. Joe, on the other hand, seeks advice of the padre, who has learned that Jack intends to hold Jennie to promise to marry him, given in fun. He is perplexed, but sees a solution of the difficulties, and Joe. acting on his suggestion, dresses himself in the manner of Jack, applying various deft touches of cosmetic to his face, in short, making himself appear the very image of his rival. In this disguise he goes to Jennie, timing his visit so as to reach her side just before Jack comes to take her to the altar. He leads her off in triumph to the little church and there the padre marries them, seemingly by mistake pronouncing the bridegroom's name as Joe. Before the disconsolate Jennie can call his attention to his seeming breach of memory, she begins to penetrate the disguise of her husband-in-the-making, and with a joyful cry throws herself into his arms as he obliterates all trace of deception from his fare with his big bandanna.
- Lily's father meets his death, and the girl is left to face the world alone. She is taken by the superintendent of the mine in the village to his home to be the companion of his motherless little boy whom Lily has rescued from a burning cabin, after the lad had been hid there by a revengeful mine worker who has just been discharged. Lily's sweetness of disposition soon awakens love in the heart of the mine superintendent who hesitates to ask the girl to become his wife. His wish is fulfilled, however, through the agency of the little boy, who in his childish way brings the two together.