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- Two I.W.W.'s offer Jerry five dollars if he will deliver a package to the police station. Jerry accepts. The police captain discovers it to be an infernal machine, but before he can cast it away it explodes, wrecking the building and piling the occupants beneath the debris. Jerry witnesses the explosion, appropriates a motorcycle and leaves the scene with the policemen following. On a country road his motor stalls as Bad Bill the outlaw, rides toward him. Jerry quickly starts the machine again, but Bad Bill compels him to stop and makes him change clothes also change the motorcycle for Bill's horse, the Flying Target, so called because it has a sign of a target on its head. Jerry continues his course and meets a stagecoach. The occupants assume him to be the outlaw and throw out their valuables. Jerry picks them up and goes into town. Meanwhile the police are having a hard time with their automobile. Arriving in town, Jerry is surprised to see the loungers scatter as soon as he comes into view. He enters the gambling house and another exodus follows. The stagecoach comes upon the police patrol and the passengers report having been held up by the Flying Target. As Jerry is in the gambling hall Bad Bill enters and demands the return of his clothes. Jerry attempts to escape and the outlaw fires after him, throwing poor Jane into a state of terror. For refuge she crawls under her bed. Jerry rushes upstairs into Jane's room and crawls under the sheets. Bad Bill starts after him. The police patrol arrives. Bad Bill also enters Jane's room and crawls under the sheets where he compels Jerry to change some of his clothes again. The police are frightened and none wants to enter. Straws are drawn and it falls to the captain's lot to lead the way. Jane, in hysterics, comes from under the bed, rushes to the closet and grabs a shotgun with which she covers Bill. Jerry makes his getaway by jumping from the window. The police enter, but they do not recognize Bill as the outlaw until Jane enlightens them. They take him away and inquire about Jerry. A road scene shows him astride his motorcycle riding up the road.
- Jack receives a letter saying his aunt is to visit him. As they have never met, he conjures up a vision of a sour visaged old maid with a battle-axe on her shoulder. He decides to escape the ordeal of her entertainment, plans a trip and also to select someone to impersonate him. The first man he encounters is Jerry, whom he finds sitting on the curb and out of a job. Jack explains to Jerry that he is going away for a time, that he shall take charge of his home, and gives him a big bunch of money to start with. Once in possession of the magnificently furnished bachelor home and Jack off Jerry supplants the half-dozen servants with three of his cronies, who make a sorry sight even in the spic and span livery. The aunt proves a comely woman of middle age; her companion is a severe looking old maid. Jerry swoons away when he sees her, believing her to be the aunt, but when identities are explained he becomes extremely interested and very attentive to the aunt. While Jerry is gallantly escorting her over the grounds he spies Jack coming up the street, so he cuts short his hospitality in that direction and takes his guest into the house. Jack has forgotten his bank vault keys and has returned for them. He persistently rings for admission. Finally Jerry goes to the door and kicks him off the porch. A plain clothesman and a uniformed cop come along and prepare to arrest Jack for disturbance. He explains he is trying to get into his own house and they agree to help him in order to prove his statement. Failing to get an answer to their ring, Jack and the detective climb into the house through a window and enter a room where Jerry is found making violent love to the aunt. Jack demands recognition, instead Jerry calls his new servants and on his orders Jack is thrown out. This for a time satisfies the detective that Jerry is the master of the house. Jack returns to find Jerry playing host to the detective. Again the servants are called on to eject the intruder. As they proceed to carry out the order the cop enters. The servants recognize an old enemy and rush away. Jerry, also seeing the cop, ceases his braggadocio and flees, knocking down the others. Jerry runs blindly, evidently, for he finally tears into the police station, into an empty cell and has locked himself in before the officers arrive, when he hands them the key. At the house Jack explains away all the questionable and astonishing happenings to his good-looking aunt and they become friends.
- Their business of detecting having been nil, Luke Sharpe and his assistant, Jim, are entirely without funds and are about to be ejected from their lodgings when a telegram from a neighboring chief of police arrives calling them into case. The message says that E.Z Marks, his wife and daughter are on a train bound for the famous Hot Springs and that in their wake follows Slim Pete and his wife, noted jewel thieves, who are intent upon purloining some precious stones which Marks carries in his trunk. Luke and Jim are instructed to capture the thieves. The telegram reassuring the landlady that her rent will be forthcoming Luke and Jim are again happy and start on their mission. They disguise themselves as baggage smashers and go to the depot to meet the train on which the diamond thieves and their prospective victims are scheduled to arrive. Luke and Jim place themselves prominently in evidence when Pete and the Marks arrive and obtain from them the checks for their baggage, promising to bring the trunks to the hotel. After a series of difficult maneuvers they get the trunks into the hallway of the hotel just outside of the owner's rooms, and an ambitious and tip-loving porter carries them inside. Unintentionally he mixes them since the trunks look exactly alike, so that the Marks get Slim Pete's trunk, and vice versa. Luke has suspected Marks of being Slim Pete and he takes the rich man to the baths to make certain of his suspicions. They prove unfounded, however, and Luke starts out to find another clue. He peeks through the key-hole of one of the doors and catches a man in the act of disguising himself with false whiskers. Of course he conjectures that the unknown man is Slim Pete, and he hurries to the hotel lobby to announce to the assembled guests that he is about to capture the notorious crook and his wife. Meanwhile the real Slim Pete and his wife have not been idle. They enter Marks' room, take the trunk they find laying there, have it placed in an automobile and while away with it till they reach the country. Upon stopping to open it, however, they discover they have been tricked for the trunk they have is their own. Luke and Jim, in the hotel lobby, are anxiously waiting behind big marble pillars for the bewhiskered man and his wife to leave their room. As they are seen to approach the assembled group holds its breath. Luke makes a flying leap, captures the man, and Jim gathers in the lady. The joy of capture is short-lived, for the man soon proves himself a detective and Luke and Jim are ejected from the place to the tune of rapidly striking boots.
- Wifie wants Hubby to spend a quiet evening at home with her. Hubby's friends want him to join them in a poker game, so they send a fake policeman over to arrest him and take him away. Meanwhile, there's an escaped lunatic lurking around the neighborhood, and a real policeman looking for him.
- Here we find Jerry where he will do no harm "behind the bars." But Jerry manages to effect his getaway by pulling apart the bars. As he climbs out of the cell window he is seen by one of the guards who tries to follow him but is caught between the bars. Jerry drops over the prison wall onto the heads of two policemen, who are so dumbfounded that they run in opposite directions. Near the prison Jerry discovers an automobile, jumps in and is off in the nick of time, as half a dozen guards and a number of policemen are just about to grab him. They all fall in a heap as Jerry speeds on. A desperate bandit stands at the roadside, garbed as a minister. He carries half a dozen guns and holds up everyone, making his victims come to him to give up their valuables. He is described as being short in stature but in reality is more than six feet tall and kneels at all times so as to mislead those who attempt to give a description of him. As luck would have it Jerry happens to get on the road which has been picked out by the bandit for that day's work. His ride is suddenly interrupted by friend minister, who orders Jerry to alight and change clothes with him while he speeds off in Jerry's car. Jerry thinks this is a good scheme as they will never suspect him of being a fugitive from the prison while garbed as a minister, so he walks off to town. In the meantime the bandit rides off a few feet when there is a terrible explosion, which attracts the attention of a posse of guards, police, etc., who give chase after the car. Jerry arrives in town and enters a food shop, but is surprised to find they all flee at sight of him and leave him alone. He is mystified by such actions, but it doesn't worry him much for he sits down and has a good meal. While Jerry is eating the bandit arrives in the car and, seeing Jerry in the restaurant, decides to get his shooting irons back. He grabs the guns and starts to shoot up Jerry but the latter rushers to the street only to be confronted by the police. He runs back to the restaurant and hides; guards, etc., enter and are greeted by a volley of shots from the bandit's gun. Jerry runs to make his getaway in the automobile, followed by the bandit, who sits beside him and they speed off. Jerry loses control of the machine at the edge of a cliff, they are hurled off into space and land at the bottom with about a ton of wreckage on top of them. The posse rushes down to learn the worst, but find that they are unhurt. They grab Jerry, believing him to be the bandit, but he tells of the exchange of clothing and the bandit is nabbed. Jerry is about to rejoice when the guard whom he had pelted with stones recognizes him so he, too, is arrested and the entire party start back to the prison.
- Nathan Grey and his daughter, Betty, live in the suburbs. Betty is in love with Jimmie Gordin, a young fellow of small means but great attraction. All goes well until the villain, Olden Rich, of vast wealth, appears. He falls in love with Betty, and Nathan favors the wealthy suitor. Betty disobeys her father, who swears she shall marry Rich before another week. Betty communicates with Jimmie and they devise a plan. She will go to visit an aunt in a distant city. Jimmis is to call and they will marry before she returns. They did not reckon on the craft of the villain Rich, and he follows on the same train on which Betty leaves. In the distant city Betty sends a telegram to her lover to come at once. This message is intercepted by Rich and he wires to father. In trying to regain her message Betty scuffles with Rich. The police come up and Rich announces that Betty is a harmless lunatic whom he is taking to an asylum. The police believe him. By bribing the superintendent Rich has her placed in the asylum. Father, on getting Rich's wire, leaves for the city and by chance Jimmie also leaves on the same train. Father joins Rich and they go to the asylum, where father informs Betty that she will either marry Rich or never leave the asylum. Despite Betty's protests, they send for a minister. Jimmie arrives in the city and while waiting around the hotel meets a young physician, an old college friend, who is in charge of the asylum. He invites Jimmie to come up and look over the place. Jimmie goes with him and he discovers that Betty is incarcerated in the asylum. The minister arrives and the ceremony between Betty and old Rich is about to take place. The young physician and Jimmie frame a plot and Jimmie has the doctor declare the father and Rich are insane. The minister is now called to unite Jimmie and Betty. Father, seeing all is useless, blesses his children and leaves old Rich to pace his cell in baffled rage.
- Tired of his irksome jail sentence Jerry contrives a clever scheme by which he eludes two guards and escapes after an interesting chase. At last in safety he sits down for a rest. Two Indians approach and make him captive. He is brought before Chief Pain-in-the-Face who decrees that he shall die. The Chief's daughter, Moonlight Princess, falls in love with Jerry at first sight and successfully pleads with her father for his life. She is told to have him painted and dressed like an Indian and she may marry him. Thus arrayed and bound Jerry is about to give up all hope when a professor of natural history, endeavoring to buy an Indian to accompany him on a lecture tour, arrives and negotiates the purchase of Jerry. The prisoner is overjoyed at the prospect of release, but not so with the Princess, who is taken struggling and protesting to her tent. Jerry is taken to the professor's home that night and left alone in the library while the professor goes on an errand. The other occupants of the house, the professor's son, his daughters and his housekeeper, are asleep. Jerry makes himself thoroughly at home and is enjoying himself immensely when the Princess, who has followed, bursts in upon him. A racket follows, the household is awakened, and there is an exodus from the rooms of the members of the family. The Princess chases Jerry from room to room, startling the professor's bewildered daughters and housekeeper into hysterics. The son, however, more collected, calls for the police, who arrive at the same time as the professor. Jerry is immediately recognized by the officers, exposed as an impostor, and again taken into custody, much to his delight after his experience with the Princess.
- Deacon Squibbs, pillar of the First Church of the Strict Principles is informed by the family lawyer that there is one important document to be read in the presence of the Deacon and his nephew Jimmie. This document is nothing less than the will of Jimmie's father, which leaves his entire fortune to his son, provided the son marries and settles down directly after his twenty-fourth birthday. Another provision of the will appoints the deacon as sole judge of the young lady to be selected. Jimmie is already in love with a young widow whose father is an old veteran of the wars. Upon sight of her photo in Jimmie's watch the Deacon becomes interested and wants to go to see her. He learns that she is a widow and, according to the laws of the First Church of Strict Principles, cannot marry a man under forty. This news breaks the widow's heart but the deacon bids her hope as he himself is just a mite over the required age. To save Jimmie's fortune the widow agrees to an engagement between herself and the deacon with the mental reservation that the deacon will be glad to break his engagement soon. The deacon spreads the news of his engagement among the brothers of his church. They are amazed and not a little doubtful. Jimmie learns of what has happened, but is reassured by the widow and her father, the gruff old colonel, that there is a plot behind it which will result in happiness to all. The church committee are short one member for their lawn social and the deacon volunteers the services of his fiancée. She states that she has a little society dance that she will do for them and the deacon is delighted. The day of the social arrives and the people of the First Church are congregated full of pleasure and anticipation. Brother T. Winkels' mouth organ solo was successful and all was well until they announced the widow's number. Jimmie, at the organ, plays an Oriental strain. The widow glides on in shimmering beads and a few yards of gauze. She twisted and shook and jarreted in a way to shock the whole congregation. She retired amid glares from the crowd, leaving the helpless deacon a target for all unfriendly comments. The next day the deacon breaks his engagement and offers Jimmie $5,000 to wed the widow and take her from the city. Jimmie, now enjoying the fun, refuses. The father challenges the deacon to a duel with swords. In the cold gray dawn of the following day the deacon with his backers of the church face the father of the widow, Jimmie, and the doctor. Tearfully the deacon begs Jimmie and the widow to accept his check and call off the duel. Finally the colonel and the widow are pacified and Jimmie holds the check and tells the deacon that he and the widow were married the day before. The deacon swoons in the arms of his brethren.
- Jerry, ever alert to pretty girls, comes in contact with the maid of a wealthy family. She has been to market and Jerry relieves her of her burden. He is about to accept her invitation to dine with her when the policeman on the beat, who is also infatuated with the maid, appears. The officer hurls Jerry to the ground and then follows the maid to the kitchen. Jerry determined to gain an entrance to the place, starts for the door again, when Hank, the janitor, appears and another fight starts. Jerry is pounded again and Hank goes inside. A fight starts between the janitor and the bluecoat, the latter using his club freely and throwing the janitor downstairs to the cellar. Jerry is lost as to what to do when he spies the police captain. He hurries to him and tells his tale of woe and the Captain decides to go after his subordinate. Jerry follows in and while the two officers are fighting Jerry opens the door leading to the cellar and throws them both down to join the janitor. Jerry is progressing nicely when the master of the house comes in. He is also smitten with the girl, but before he sees Jerry the diminutive one hides under the table and is further shielded from view by the maid's apron. The master is having a love scene with the girl when his wife appears and she loses no time, crashing a bottle over the unfaithful one's head. The maid faints and as the wife rushes out Jerry goes to the girl's assistance. He picks her up just as the three in the cellar appear. Jerry runs to the hall and there he is confronted by the husband. Jerry throws the girl into the arms of the master and runs upstairs just as the wife appears. Seeing her husband with the maid in his arms the angry wife smashes a big vase over her husband's head, dropping him with the maid in his arms. The police and janitor appear on the scene and there is a general mixup. All decide to get Jerry and a chase leads to the top floor. Jerry climbs out of the window and aided by the drain pipe reaches the ground while the police and janitor climb down behind him. He is caught at the bottom by the husband, who is in waiting and held for the police, then to be severely clubbed and taken away to jail, leaving Hank the janitor in possession of the troublesome maid.
- Jerry, who is taking life easy in the park, is attracted by a scene between a mother and her baby. Jerry watches the happy woman fondling her child, and as he reflects over his past follies he pictures the day when he, too, will have a wife and a little child to love. Weary at heart, he goes to another bench and sits beside a sleeping tramp, where he, too, is soon fast asleep. He dreams that he is married and that he is the proud father of a family. As he caresses his baby and wife he awakens to find himself kissing the dusty tramp and a fight starts. The police hear the rumpus and as they start after Jerry, he runs away and takes refuge in a tool house near some construction work. The foreman of the work sees Jerry go into the house and quickly follows him. He ejects Jerry and warns him to keep away from the place. The foreman puts dynamite in the little storehouse for safe keeping until the following day, and as he walks away he drops the key of the shack, an incident which Jerry observes from his hiding place. Jerry gains possession of the key and enters the house, ignorant of the fact that it contains explosives. Seeing the police coming, Jerry proceeds to walk away with the house. Down the road a big auto truck is approaching, loaded with picnickers, consisting of policemen and their families and sweethearts. Jerry tries to get out of the way with the shack he is carrying, but unable to do so there is a collision, the explosives are set off and Jerry is sent flying through space. When he lands he is captured and handcuffed to the wheel of the truck. The merry picnickers go in swimming, but one of the women takes pity on Jerry and releases him. He meets four tramps, old friends, and they have a joyous reunion. Jerry and his friends spy the policemen's uniforms which were discarded for bathing suits when they went into the water, and no time is lost in appropriating them. The tramps and Jerry leave their discarded clothing behind and when the cops discover what has happened they rush from the water only to see Jerry and his cronies speeding away in the auto truck. The cops don the tramps' clothing and give chase only to run into the hands of the local sheriff, who mistakes them for tramps he is looking for. Jerry and party see the incident, understand the situation and hurry to the sheriff's aid and help him to take the enraged police to the lockup. The cops protest in vain and while they argue with the sheriff and his men, Jerry and his party motor off to a secluded spot, open the lunch baskets and enjoy their repast while the picture fades out.
- Trouble ensues when Jerry is surrounded by his enigma, the police, and in his haste to evade their clutches he bumps into a peddler carrying a tray of phony jewelry, which, with the onslaught, is scattered on the ground. One of the jewels appeals to Jerry and he pockets it, not knowing that its possession forebodes trouble. Alone, he examines the acquisition. While gloating over his sudden wealth two Hindoos appear suddenly before him. They inform Jerry that the jewel he has had been stolen from an idol in their temple and that they have been requisitioned to find the possessor, and return him with the jewel to India, where the owner was to be made a slave. Not being able to compromise the trouble, Jerry is carried to India, where he is taken before the Royal Kazabo, who orders him punished. Jerry, however, anticipates punishment and turns the tables by punishing the Hindoos. Thus he gets out of one room but in doing so he rushes into another occupied by the members of the Kazabo's harem and his favorite wife. To the latter Jerry is at one attracted. This attraction is Jerry's undoing for he spends too much time with her and the Kazabo and his guards are given time to revive. They start on Jerry's trail, capture him and throw him into jail where he has an exciting time. But he neatly escapes and in a rowboat starts back for the good old U.S.A.
- A minister who is about to leave the city for a small country town where he is to have charge of a pastorate makes the unforgiveable mistake of asking Jerry to watch his grip while he buys a ticket. Coincidentally a squad of police seize the minister and drag him off to Jail. Jerry, not caring to enter into conversation with policemen, appropriates the grip, examines its contents and finds therein a minister's paraphernalia. Jerry conceals himself in a box car, which is soon made up into a train and starts on its journey. When Jerry arrives in the little town he finds a welcoming delegation headed by Deacon Jones and Sara, an old maid. He is conducted to his abode, which happens to be a rooming house also housing the deacon and a motley array of his flock. Jerry flirts with a young girl, is discovered by Sara and policy demands that he pay her a certain degree of attention. Surprises come to a head when Jerry, dressed as the minister, breaks in upon the deacon playing a friendly game of poker with a gathering of old cronies. Their fear is dissipated when Jerry agrees to take a hand with them. Jerry proves to be a wizard with the cards and soon has relieved them of their money and most of their personal belongings, such as watches, rings, etc. Meanwhile the imprisoned minister has proven his innocence and makes his way to his congregation. He arrives upon the scene just as Jerry makes his getaway. The vision of a holy card hanging behind the table at which he has made his winning streak, "The Lord Loves a Cheerful Giver," causes Jerry to make a substantial donation to a winsome Red Cross nurse.
- Luke Sharpe. a private detective, and his assistant, Jigger, are very much down on their luck or so represent themselves to Beto, the proprietor of a ten cent lodging house, so they acquire accommodations for both for a dime, and turn in. When Jigger sees Luke is asleep, and having a little change in his pocket, he sneaks off to a cabaret. There he notices a crook, one very badly wanted by the police and for whom a handsome reward is offered. He also notes that the crook has designs on the purse of a woman (the woman crook) seated at another table. He returns to the lodging house, wakes up Luke, tells him of his discovery; both return to the cabaret, state their profession to the proprietor, the object of their mission, to capture the crook, and arrange to be engaged in the place. The proprietor helps them to disguise themselves, Luke as a waiter and Jigger as a pianist. Luke thinks more of the bar than the demands of his business as a waiter, and after trying to inflict on the patrons a song and breaking all dishes while waiting on them, he suddenly notices the crook snatch the lady's purse and run. He calms the excited patrons by telling them that he and his associate are detectives, to leave the matter in their hands and they will capture the thief. The statement is received with derision, and the proprietor having had enough of them anyway, is ably assisted in ejecting them. They return to their lodging house, and after accusing and abusing one another for the fiasco at the cabaret they drop into their cots. They have not been asleep very long when the crook arrives and gets into a bed close to them. Luke, who has the habit of sleeping with one eye open, notices the crook, and decides when he is asleep to capture him for the reward, but not to say anything to Jigger about his plan. He goes into another room and proceeds to disguise himself as an old miser. Jigger, however, has also noted the crook, and plans to do the same thing as Luke proposes, but remains in the same room to make up his disguise. The crook wakes and sees Jigger making up and determines to settle him. Luke enters as a miser, goes to his cot and engages in the characteristic pastime of counting his money. Jigger, not knowing his partner through the disguise, thinks he is a real miser, and by a trick gets the money. Luke, to keep up the character, so noisily grieves over his loss that he wakes up all the lodgers. The crook tells him that Jigger is the man who robbed him, and commands the miser to take his (the crook's) knife and kill Jigger. During this Jigger has again gone to bed, but with his feet where his head ought to be. Luke has noted this. He stealthily creeps up to the bed and plunges the knife through the open space between Jigger's feet and into the mattress. Jigger jumps out of bed, giving a scare to the crook, while Luke assumes to be scared. At this instant police, who had been chasing the crook, break into the room. The crook being by the door, escapes as they enter, not noticed by the officers. They approach Jigger about the crook. Jigger, still greatly agitated over the attempt on his life, answers, "He's gone, but arrest that man," pointing to Luke, who snatches the long gray-haired wig off and discloses his identity to Jigger. Jigger also removes his disguise and they embrace. This is not the end, for the officers now recognize the two bum detectives and place them under arrest.
- The old professor, accompanied by his daughter and the young professor, arrive home from a trip, bringing with them a full-blooded young Indian, upon whom the old professor intends making certain experiments. Jerry has been informed of their intended homecoming and is at the train to meet them, but receives anything but cordial greeting from the old professor, who intends marrying his daughter to the young professor. Jerry and the girl, however, are not discouraged and try to plan a method of meeting. Chance favors Jerry by placing him in possession of the Indian's "other clothes'' and the girl, supplying the paint from a box of watercolors, he is soon the actual duplicate of the real Indian. They then inveigle the Indian into the wine cellar and taking advantage of his taste for "fire water,'' soon have him enjoying what he believes is his "happy hunting grounds." The only trouble with the plan is that he does not remain where they put him and "leaves the reservation." Then things happen and keep on happening, everyone, including even the girl, taking Jerry for the Indian, or the Indian for Jerry, until the aid of the law is called upon to straighten out the tangle, and then even the law gets tangled.
- Out of work and sorely in need of funds, Jerry sits in a despondent mood on a park bench. He discovers a purse lying on the ground near him and picking it up is delighted to find it filled with money. But unobserved by him, two policemen have watched his action and as he returns to the bench the officers seat themselves beside him, take the purse away, divide the money among themselves, and return the empty pocketbook to Jerry. The perplexing problem of finance now still confronts him so he resolves to try the help want ad column of a newspaper. There he finds an advertisement for a valet and forthwith he hies himself to the address given. Arriving there he is annoyed to find a line of applicants ahead of him. So that he may be the first to interview the prospective employer (who happens to be a count) Jerry starts a free-for-all fight among the applicants. The house detective stops in to quell the noise, ousts the disturbers and when the count announces he is ready to see the applicants, Jerry is the only one left. Of course he gets the job. The Count sends word to friends that he is about to visit them and after ordering Jerry to pack his bag he starts off accompanied by his valet. At the home Jerry becomes smitten with the daughter of the house and tries to flirt with her. She leads him on, passing from one room to another, drawing the curtains after her. Jerry kisses her hand, which she protrudes through the curtains. By way of teaching this persistent young fellow a lesson, the girl then has the butler take her place, so when Jerry hastily pulls aside the curtains he is surprised to find himself in the arms of the butler. Enraged, he strikes at the butler but hits the Count, who has just come upon the scene. Realizing his mistake he rushes away only to rush into the girl's mother. The Count by this time has recovered his senses and through the curtains makes a kick at what he believes is Jerry's form. Instead he strikes the mother. She in turn strikes at Jerry, who ducks just in time to let the Count, who enters through the curtains, have the blow. Attracted by the noise, the father starts toward the scene and is greeted with a flying vase from the hands of the Count which was intended for Jerry, who runs away with the Count after him. The chase leads to the bathroom where Jerry causes the Count to have an involuntary bath, and then out to the street where Jerry climbs a telegraph pole with the Count pursuing. There they dangle until two policemen who see the unusual spectacle from a distance come up and drag them down. The butler, who has innocently helped cause the trouble, laughs as the two disturbers are carried away to a safer zone.
- Tiny's father objects to Jerry's suit for his daughter's hand, and orders the butler to throw Jerry from the premises. In the melee the butler strikes the father and is discharged. Thereupon father 'phones a detective agency intending to ask them to send him a detective to watch Jerry, a maid to watch Tiny, and a butler to serve his household. But the detective agency's manager is too busy making love to his stenographer to answer the 'phone, so father writes the agency a note. Jerry sees him putting the note in the post office, extracts it therefrom, and after gleaning father's message decides to put a new scheme into being. Jerry visits his friends, Tom and Dick, and prevails upon Tom to dress as a detective and Dick to dress as a butler, while Jerry himself dresses as a maid. Thus dressed the three repair to Tiny's home. When they arrive father is commanding Tiny to be "nice" to Hank, his favorite suitor for his daughter's hand. Jerry seeing this contrives to separate Tiny from him. He succeeds and follows Tiny to her room, accompanied by Tom and Dick. Jerry tells Tiny that he and his friends are movie actors, and that they will be glad to stage a scene for her delectation. Their acting, however, causes a lot of racket in the house, and father and Hank hurry to Tiny's room to learn the trouble. Seeing they are about to be caught in a trap, for Jerry has lost his wig in the acting scene, they scatter just as father and Hank break in. Seeing the deception that has been practiced upon him father gets his shot-gun. A lively time follows, but Jerry and his friends are fortunate beings and escape, the picture closing with a scene of Jerry rushing down the road, his footfalls beating an accompaniment to a rainfall of bullets.
- Simpkins and his friend, Jigger, are awakened one morning by the noise of much hammering and shouting. Arising from their soft bed in a fence corner they are surprised to see a small traveling circus getting ready for business nearby. Curiosity leads to the scene. The most attractive object to Simpkins is Nina, daughter of the owner, Bigguts. Simpkins also loses his heart, when Nina gives him more than a friendly look. Then and there he decides to be nearer this charming girl. He asks Bigguts for jobs for himself and Jiggers, and they are employed. Simpkins gives more attention to Nina than to his work. Tonno, the clown and strong man, who is himself in love with Nina, notes this, informs Bigguts, and Simpkins and Jiggers are ordered off the lot. They take refuge in the fence corner; Simpkins in his misery ever sees the face of Nina. Both manage to get into the night show without benefiting the box office. Seated well up in the stands, Simpkins is overjoyed when Nina appears to do her act. A mad rush over the spectators, and he lands in the front row. The disturbed spectators raise a strong protest. Nina, turning to see what the row is about, observes Simpkins. Ah, she loves him! With outstretched arms she goes to him. The people demand her to go on with her act. Bigguts and Tonno rush in and throw Simpkins and Jiggers out. Nina refuses to go on and returns to her dressing-room in tears. Simpkins, who has been wandering around outside, passes Nina's room and hears her sobs. Under the canvas he goes, but his joy is short-lived, for father and mother enter. Father chases Simpkins and they run back into the big tent. Tonno has gone on with his act and has made a failure; spectators hiss him. Into the ring rush Simpkins and father. Simpkins does several stunts while being chased, and is vociferously applauded. Bigguts is amazed at his work and offers him a job at his own price. Simpkins replies the price is Nina. Here Tonno and mother raise a row, but Bigguts accepts the terms. Tonno determines revenge. Simpkins is doing a trapeze turn. Tonno cuts one of the ropes, but does not get out of the way quick enough and Simpkins falls on him and lays him out. His act cut out for the night, Simpkins retires and is met in loving embrace by Nina. Suddenly Simpkins wakes up to find that he has been embracing Jiggers, and it was all a dream.
- Flirtatious Jerry "makes a mash on" pretty Gladys while both are viewing a billboard displaying handsome posters of Julius Caesar, advertised for production in a ten-twent'-thirt' house. Particularly impressed is Jerry with the resemblance of the picture of a beautiful Roman maiden to Gladys. Agreeing to meet again, they separate, Gladys for home, Jerry for a nap, which he proceeds to enjoy in a straw-filled packing case he finds in a nearby alley and (as it must happen for always-getting-into-trouble Jerry) alongside the cache of a lot of loot hidden there by a couple of burglars. Jerry dreams he is a Roman emperor and that he and Gladys are having a great time, winding up with his slaves putting him to bed in the royal chamber. It is this handling of him, the patting of the royal bedclothes about him, that wakes him, and be discovers that someone is really handling him, for a couple of policemen are putting handcuffs on him, believing him to be the burglar they are looking for. This is not the end, however. He proves an alibi, his release, and joins in the search of the cracksmen. Then follows some thrilling as well as comical scenes. Jerry discovers the robbers' den, valiantly attacks them; they knock him unconscious, set fire to the place, and escape. Jerry revives when a flood of water is poured on him from the firemen's hose, and the instant he escapes from the building there is a terrible explosion caused by combustibles in it. Jerry keeps going after the crooks, gets them; the loot is recovered; it had been stolen from Gladys' home, and Jerry makes himself solid.
- Jerry gets into trouble in a woman's suffrage stronghold and finds himself on trial before a woman jury. The ladies powder their noses, talk fashions, fix their hair and generally show interest in everything but Jerry's case while the evidence is being taken. They return a verdict of guilty and Jerry gets one year to live, but escapes in a suit of the judge's clothes lifted from the jurist's chambers. The judge runs Jerry down and he is marched back to prison through a cordon of mocking femininity.
- Jerry sees a village cut-up tormenting a young woman, who is loaded down under the weight of a heavy basket of groceries. Jerry lands on the youth's head with a brick, preventing any further trouble and then he carries the basket for the girl. Arriving in town, Jerry learns that his friend is the daughter of the town grocer. The father needs a strong young man to help about the store and Jerry lands the job. Jerry's attentions directed at the girl more than to his work arouses the wrath of the storekeeper and the two get into a fight. Jerry hides in a barrel and soon he is a captive when the old man nails the lid on, not knowing that Jerry is inside. The "cut-up" having told of the attack made upon him by Jerry to the constable, a search is started for Jerry and the grocery store is searched. There is no trace of Jerry. Jerry tries to release himself from the barrel and is so doing attracts the attention of the constable and several others, who think the store haunted and they rush out. Jerry then frees himself. The father and the constable hide in the big ice box believing Jerry will return. They are detected by the new clerk who locks them in and then proceeds to make love to the daughter. In the meantime the constable and father are frozen stiff and when the ice man arrives and opens the big refrigerator the two fall on the floor. Jerry and the girl are having a delightful time, while some of the customers build a fire in a stove and place the two frozen victims on top to thaw them out. Revived, the father hears Jerry singing and with the constable and others he makes ready to capture Jerry. They burst in upon Jerry and the girl and Jerry makes his escape and bidding the frightened daughter a hasty good-bye, he starts a dash for freedom. Led by the constable a mob gives chase after Jerry, but the fleet-footed little fellow gains and out-distances his pursuers, while back at the store the angry father uses his uses his razor strap effectively on his daughter.
- Jerry, in a quarrel with a policeman, is rescued from a pummeling by kindly old Col. Smilax, who witnesses his plight and pleads for his release. He then takes Jerry to his home and introduces him to his family. His daughter, the head of an amateur theatrical society, recognizes in Jerry the very type required for a part in a play which they are to produce, and prevails upon the director to enroll his services. At rehearsals Jerry is the center of attraction but particularly so in the case of an angular old maid who is quite effusive in expressing her regard for Jerry and his accomplishments. On the night of the performance the house is crowded. Jerry is stricken with stage fright, much to the delight of the audience, whom a policeman attempts to silence by mounting the stage and addressing them. Jerry has a natural antipathy for policemen, and the actions of this particular one being especially displeasing, he gives vent to his feelings with the result that the officer lands heavily in the drum head. Jerry's fellow players, in their efforts to straighten out matters, turn the stage into a scene of unrehearsed excitement, which is quelled only when officers take Jerry to a safe cell in the station.
- M.T. Dome out of a job spies a sign in the window of a piano salesroom, stating that they want a boy. He disguises his age by turning up the legs of his trousers, applies for and secures the position. He is immediately put to work cleaning up and is supplied with pail and brush, but misunderstands his instructions and at once proceeds to scrub a costly and highly polished piano. The manager interrupts Dome in his ruinous occupation and sets him to work washing the show windows. He gets into difficulties with his long handled brush and the passing pedestrians. He is subsequently sent out with the piano tuner to assist him on a job and which happens to be at the home of the proprietor of the piano emporium. Upon their arrival the lady of the house leaves in order to escape the horror of the incessant banging incident to the tuning of the piano. They start to work and M.T. Dome having an ear for music takes command of the job, creating havoc to the piano case with his careless handling of the tools. The daughter of the house, not able to stand the discord, disregards her mother's instructions and goes for a walk and then the fireworks begin. M.T. Dome falls into the upright piano and emerges amidst a tangled mass of wires and other wreckage. Not table to get at the works to his satisfaction, he opens a way with saw and ax. About this time madame returns and finds her piano on fire, Dome having carelessly thrown a lighted match in the works. The boss is phoned and arrives on the job in double quick time and hastily and forcibly fires Dome from the premises. Picking himself up, and after running several blocks to escape his infuriated employer, he observes the daughter approaching and in rubbering after her witnesses her run down by an auto. Inspiration comes into his bonehead and he rushes to the rescue, commandeers a passing auto and takes her home, where he is forgiven by father and mother and handsomely rewarded.
- Jerry becomes a movie studio executive. He persuades a rich woman's maid, whose employer is out of town, to let his company use the mansion, including the woman's expensive wardrobe, to shoot his next picture. The maid consents, but after they begin shooting, the house's owner shows up. Complications ensue.
- Jerry follows a beautiful girl into the park, but is interrupted in his avowals of love by a park policeman. Father and the Count arrive in time to see Jerry chased away, and they decide to take daughter to the beach. Jerry is "tipped off" as to the plans and is on the sands when father, daughter and the Count arrive. Jerry gets busy from the start, much to the annoyance of beach policemen and the utter disgust of father and his titled friend. Jerry has a fine time with a bevy of lovely girls and enjoys himself immensely when he secludes himself in their dressing room. When they discover him, daughter shields Jerry from their pummeling, but ever-watchful police make things warm for him. Jerry's best tact is applied to getting father and the Count into a fight with the police. Jerry then signals daughter to "beat it." They escape in an automobile stolen from a parking station, but they are pursued by father, the Count and a force of policemen. The chase comes to an end when Jerry drives his "flivver" into an automobile service station. A gasoline explosion, caused by the entrance of Jerry blows him into jail.
- After numerous vicissitudes in an effort to enter the studio Jerry obtains a job as an actor with a motion picture company. He examines everything, and soon gets into trouble. The company proceeds into the slums to take some exteriors. Jerry, playing a detective, with a shining badge pinned to his coat, is very proud and shows off before a pretty girl who appears at a window. The girl flirts with him and following her he gets into a den of thieves. The girl believed him to be harmless but upon seeing the badge surmises he is an officer. She summons her brother crooks, who attack Jerry and throw him Into a closet, believing him unconscious. But Jerry has divined that his assailants are crooks, and climbing out of a window he summons a policeman, who telephones for a patrol. Meanwhile the director has requisitioned the services of one of the crooks. The police find the crook and arrest him. Jerry and other officers go into the house and soon emerge with the crooks and loot; and all are carted off to the police station. The zealous cameraman photographs the entire proceedings. At the police station the difficulties are unraveled and Jerry, to gain the good will of the policemen, photographs them, though not with much success, as the exposed film rolls into his pocket instead of the camera magazine.
- With Curlock Bones, the detective, hot on his trail for a series of misdemeanors he has committed, and since his customary plans of operation for relief in such a crisis have proved ineffective, Jerry finds it incumbent upon himself to adopt some unusual method to evade the clutches of the pugnacious sleuth. Stealthily creeping through a park, cudgeling his brain for an avenue of escape, he chances upon two girls who have been harassed by members of the police force, each of whom is strenuously striving for recognition. They beseech Jerry to take a place as their maid so that they may avail themselves of his masculine powers in case the policemen insist upon carrying on their annoying tactics. Seeing in it an opportunity to outwit Bones, Jerry accepts the job. For a while Jerry has the time of his life flirting and toying with the police officers. But his desire to play pranks eventually proves his undoing. In the spirit of fun he chides the master of the house. That unsuspecting individual takes the impersonator in his arms just as his wife enters. She, enraged, strikes the homebreaker and her unfaithful spouse with a handy flower vase. Jerry's wig falls from his head and his identity is exposed just as Curlock Bones enters. The game being up, Jerry permits Bones to escort him to jail, adding another coup to the detective's long list of triumphs.
- Jerry is in love with a girl whose father owns an antique shop and who is deeply in debt. The old man hates Jerry and wants his daughter to marry his bookkeeper. He relies greatly on the bookkeeper to rescue him from his financial difficulties and in order to bind him to his cause, he compels the girl to agree to marry him. In furtherance of his plan he commands her to write a letter to Jerry breaking off their engagement. Jerry receives the letter and, heartbroken, decides on suicide, but not having nerve enough to do the deed himself, he visits a professional murderer and makes a contract with him to kill him on sight. He then repents his bargain and is kept busy dodging his executioner. In the meantime the bookkeeper puts up a scheme in the shape of an auction sale and sends confidential telegrams to various wealthy people to buy everything marked with a double cross, as these things are very valuable. The girl, believing in the fake, meets Jerry and giving him some money tells him to buy double-cross articles also and they go towards the store. On the way, Jerry again falls in with the murderous gentleman and after a brief skirmish succeeds in landing him in the hands of a policeman. When they reach the store, the auction is about over, only one marked piece remaining, a large vase. Jerry buys it and then, after the money has been paid over, the bookkeeper gives him the laugh and explains the fake. Jerry hits the bookkeeper over the head with the vase, the vase is broken and among the pieces a roll of bills amounting to $10,000 is discovered. Thus Jerry and the girl are made independent and the bookkeeper loses out.
- Strolling through the park, Jerry finds a wad of money. Though he needs money badly, he claims honesty as one of his traits, and returns the wad to the rightful owner, who, in an outburst of generosity, rewards the finder with a genuine quarter. Jerry is disappointed at such little appreciation, but without the quarter he could not buy the meal he so anxiously looked forward to. In the restaurant Jerry finds the service bad, the food worse, and the rules of deportment so lax that his quarter is stolen. So when the time comes to pay the bill he has to stand for the usual rush through the door and into the street. Angered at the whole proceeding, Jerry fights back and wins. But he has to run for his life, for the waiters soon get on their feet and pursue the fleeing Jerry. He takes refuge under a table in the back room of a café, where two blackmailers are discussing their plans. They have just dispatched a note to wealthy Colonel Biff demanding $1,000 in cash by six o'clock that evening or be blown up by an infernal machine. As Jerry's pursuers, now enforced by the police, enter the blackmailers throw the machine under Jerry's table and rush out. The crowd follows the blackmailers, leaving Jerry with the box, which, because of the ticking of the clock set to explode the machine, he believes to be filled with watches and other jewelry. The police return and arrest Jerry, but Col. Biff, passing by, straightens things out by passing around $4 and takes Jerry to his home to be put to work to pay off the debt. Jerry meets Biff's daughter, falls in love with her, gets into a mess of trouble as a result, and ends up at the police station. It is now lacking a few minutes of six o'clock. Jerry is before the desk when the blackmailers are also brought in. They notice Jerry carries their machine and yell in terror, but before they can make themselves clear the bomb has exploded, wrecking the room and sending the occupants to all corners. When the dust clears away Jerry is seen hanging from the chandelier.
- Jerry is seated in the railway station waiting for his train, when a woman approaches him and asks that he hold her baby for a few minutes. Jerry does her the favor. The minutes, however, stretch into a long period of time, and getting tired of his job, Jerry places the baby in a basket which has been placed on the bench beside him by two crooks. Thinking his troubles are over Jerry starts to leave, when a colored woman asks him if he would mind her baby for a few minutes while she goes in search of her husband. Again Jerry hasn't the heart to refuse. The first mother returns, and takes the colored baby from Jerry believing it to be her own. It is wrapped in covers, and she does not open them. The train on which this mother's husband is due to arrive pulls into the station. The husband knows Jerry, and urges him to come along to his home. Jerry refuses the invitation and thanks him, but the husband insists, and Jerry is forcibly carried away. Meantime the crooks have taken away the basket containing the white baby, and are now out on the high road on their way to the scene of their next job. The colored woman returns to the station to claim her baby, and finds Jerry and her baby gone. She screams, bringing a policeman to her side. She explains her plight to him, and he advises her to go to the police station. Arriving home, the husband lifts the cover from the baby's face. Consternation reigns when he discovers that they have the wrong baby. The mother explains that Jerry had been entrusted with their baby, and that any mistake is due to his carelessness. The father starts after Jerry, but he is nimble of foot and gets out of harm's way. A lively chase follows, Jerry is finally caught and led to the police station. The two couples meet at the station, and while they are trying to thrash out matters the crooks enter with the white baby. They had discovered the nature of their burden, and have returned to turn it over to the police. Matters :are then adjusted, and the picture closes with Jerry crooning to the mite of humanity he is permitted to hold in his arms, this time under the watchful eye of the baby's parents.
- Peacefully slumbering Jerry is disturbed, first by a cop and a nurse girl wheeling a baby, and then by a colored cop with a negro woman, who also has a baby. Incensed, Jerry determines to have his revenge and changes the babies. Jerry then comes upon a sergeant. He conducts him back to the park bench. Upon the appearance of the sergeant the two cops rush off. The negro woman exits with the white baby, while the white nurse leaves with the colored baby. Consternation reigns when the parents discover the substitution. The black cop and the white cop catch a glimpse of Jerry in the background. They soon catch him. A fight ensues. Two white cops rush up and in the general mix-up Jerry makes his getaway. He soon comes upon an aeroplane, gets into the cab and soars upward. Jerry arrives over an island inhabited by cannibals, who have all the modern improvements. The cannibals discover Jerry and notify their chief by telephone. Acting under the instructions of the chief, who arrives upon the scene in his racing car, the cannibals fire and the machine falls to earth. Jerry is carried to a large kettle and forced to witness a cannibal dance. He knocks the chief into the kettle and dashes off. In his mad dash for life Jerry comes to the chief's tent. Darting inside he comes upon a beautiful princess, whom the chief is holding captive. She hides him in a suit of armor. The chief enters the tent. While he is questioning the princess, Jerry prods him with a spear. The chief angrily accuses one of his men. Jerry then prods the other man and causes a general fight. Taking advantage of the confusion, Jerry escapes with the princess. The chief's racer is standing outside the tent. Jerry helps the princess into the car and drives safely away just as the chief and his men run out of the tent.
- Nolan and Harry are temporarily financially embarrassed, and Mrs. Prune, the landlady, is not a person to be trifled with; her keen nose detects the odor of the cooking coming from the oil stove concealed in the boys' suitcase. She bounces in and demands her money by noon and the boys decide to pack their clothes and quietly leave. The landlady is too sharp for them and holds their belongings until she gets her money. Homeless and friendless, the boys go out to face the world, and in search for work Nolan meets his sweetheart Billie, and carrying her parcels forgets to give her a bag of doughnuts. This furnishes a feed for the two pals. They discover an ad in the paper that the New Hotel Honeymoon will give a week's board to the first married couple to arrive Saturday, May 25. This gives Nolan an idea and he insists on Harry being the bride. Harry reluctantly consents and has to part with his best suit of clothes for a bride's outfit. Billie's friend Ethel is the stenographer at the hotel and invites Billie down to the opening. Billie accepts and leaves for Hotel Honeymoon. The bride and groom arrive and are welcomed as the first couple by the host and shown to the bridal chamber. Cupid, however gets busy and the bride falls in love with the fair stenographer. By threats of disclosure he forces the groom to loan him his suit of clothes, and Harry goes to further his acquaintance with Ethel. He pretends to Ethel that he is a friend of the bride, and all goes smoothly until Billie arrives with the news of the bride being ill. Harry hastens back and learns that Nolan, during his absence, has put on the bridal dress and attempted to go for a smoke. He runs into Billie and dashes back to his room, causing Billie to think "she" has a fit. The constable of the town gets a notice that a desperate hotel crook, known as "Dolly, the Dip," a man who disguises as a woman, is likely to come to the new Honeymoon Hotel, and he is on the lookout for the crook. Dinner time arrives and Nolan and Harry, who is again the bride, go into the café. The bride drinks copiously of beer and after an argument she and her husband go into the lobby. Here their scrap continues and in the scramble the bride's wig comes off. The constable sees this and at once arrests the bride as "Dolly, the Dip." Billie identifies the boys, and Ethel, the stenographer, is very pleased. The host of the hotel forgives all if the four will marry and spend their honeymoon at his house.
- Jerry got himself in bad with the authorities, and with three cronies landed in jail. To explain his absence he writes his sweetheart that he is holding down a government position. Disliking the job of cracking stones to which he was assigned, Jerry plans his escape. His opportunity comes when the attention of the guard is distracted. Picking up a stone he whirls it at the guard who falls with a thud into unconsciousness. Changing clothes with the senseless man he goes forward and meets his cronies, whom he liberates. Upon returning to his senses the guard raises a cry and pursuit is immediately started after the escaped convicts. Jerry spies on the wayside an automobile belonging to a motion picture company out on a "location" and bidding his comrades enter he takes the wheel and makes off at full speed. In the car the four discover four elaborate sets of military costumes intended for use in the picture people's scene. Donning these Jerry with his friends starts for his sweetheart's home, wiring ahead the news of their coming. The receipt of Jerry's message causes great rejoicing and plans are immediately made for an elaborate reception. Jerry and his cronies drive up to sweetheart's home. The grounds are lavishly decorated and the interior of the house is a triumphal arch for the returning hero. Jerry is asked to tell of his experiences. This he does, sorely taxing his imagination. In the meantime the motion picture director has discovered the loss of his car. Meeting the guards, who are on a hunt for Jerry, he enters a complaint. Given the car number they have little difficulty in tracing the active Jerry. When the reception is at its height the guards enter. The three cronies, having imbibed freely from the punch bowl, have fallen into the accustomed prison lockstep. Whatever doubt may have existed in the guard's mind as to the identity of the group is immediately dispelled by this action and they collar the three and handcuff them. Jerry, having had no time to escape, is treated in the same fashion. All prisoners, again in lockstep, are then marched off to the police auto and driven away, while the guests show great indignation towards the members of the family and leave. Jerry and his cronies are returned to the prison, put in stripes and again set to work, this time, however, with ball and chain attachments.
- M.T. Dome has just established his new bride in a cozy little flat, and to lighten the burden of housekeeping decides that his wife must have a maid. He visits an employment agency and, man-like, selects the maid because of her looks rather than for her qualifications. Returning home with his prize, M.T. Dome cannot understand why his young wife is not enthusiastic over his selection, but the new bride naturally resents the good-looking servant being made a member of the household. Dome is satisfied, however, and loses no time in starting a flirtation with the new bride's maid. He is caught in the act of showing a fatherly interest in the maid and the first quarrel between the newlyweds occurs, resulting in M.T. Dome seeking the comforts of his club. His old bachelor friends welcome Dome's return to the fold and time passes only too quickly for rebellious bridegroom, so that at two A.M., on his way home, Dome does not realize how late it is. Meeting some friends, and by this time in a very convivial mood, he insists upon them accompanying him home, where they all arrive in high spirits. The M.T. Dome's reside in a semi-apartment hotel, which provides a general reception room for its tenants, and here Dome insists that his guests make merry. One of the rules of the establishment is that there shall he no music after ten P.M., and, although it is now three A.M., Dome's hilarious spirit will not be denied, so he sets back the clock and starts in to entertain his friends to the annoyance and distress of the tenants. In a mad dance, Dome falls against the stair rail, carries it away and alights, with the wreckage, one flight below. By this time the entire apartment house is aroused, including the landlady, whom Dome placates by promising to stop his noise and repair the damage he has done. Keeping his promise, Dome loses no time in looking up a carpenter, whom, together with his assistant, he bribes to come and do a very urgent job at that hour in the morning. The noise created by the mechanics is even worse than that made by Dome and his friends, so the tenants, in a body, fall upon the disturbers of their sleep and throw them out doors, Dome meanwhile having been singled out by his bride and is given a beating by this outraged young lady.
- Wild Bill, an inmate of Prof. Nutt's asylum, weary of confinement, escapes detention by climbing down the side of the building wall. His actions, once he has gained freedom, are unconventional and terrorize the peaceful citizens of the city in which the Nutt institution is located. Bill reaches the Littleford mansion and peers through one of the windows. The contortions of his face as it is pressed against the glass frightens pretty Evelyn almost into hysterics and she calls to her father for help. Littleford. to protect his daughter against possible harm, phones to Luke Sharpe, the human bloodhound, and enlists his services to catch Bill, offering him a reward of $5,000. Seeing a chance to make money easily and quickly, Sharpe returns to his rooms and has Jiggers, his aide, make-up as Bill. He orders Jiggers to meet him at the Littleford home, to which he precedes the impostor. After he has made his little speech about catching the terror, Sharpe goes to the door to bring in Jiggers. That worthy, however, is late. Bill, the real quarry, is seen climbing through the window of the house next door and Sharpe, believing him to be Jiggers, crosses the lawn and goes after him. Once face to face with Bill. Sharpe sees that he has a madman to deal with, and makes an ineffectual effort to escape. Meantime Jiggers has arrived and enters the Littleford home via the window. Making himself perfectly at home, he jauntily stalks into the room where Evelyn is taking a nap. She awakens at his strokes over her hand, screams and brings upon the scene her father, who is armed with a revolver. Littleford chases Jiggers, who rushes from the room and hides behind a chair. Littleford sees Bill in the house on the other side of the areaway, and believing him to be the man who was in his home but a moment before, fires away. Sharpe, who is with Bill, gets most of the effect of the fire. When the smoke of battle has cleared away Sharpe pounces upon Bill and succeeds in landing him. He carries the unconscious form to the door-step of the Littleford home and then steps in the house alone to tell his client that his quest is successful. Meanwhile Jiggers escapes the house and comes face to face with Bill. The two begin a fight which ends with Jiggers being vanquished and left behind in Bill's place. Sharpe, of course, turns over Jiggers as the real madman, collects his money and is about to depart when a policeman enters with Bill. The jig is up. Sharpe's little scheme is exposed. Littleford takes back his reward and turns it over to the policeman, while Jiggers, followed by Sharpe, exits in sorrow.
- Mr. Morton, a wealthy man, has decided to take his wife and daughter for a vacation on their farm. Neal, a young artist, has selected a spot in the canyon where he is painting. Betty, the daughter of Morton, meets Neal, who, mistaking her for a real country girl, asks her to pose for him. Betty consents. After a few sittings Betty and Neal are in love. Neal proposes and Betty accepts under the condition that father's consent is secured. Neal goes to Mr, Morton at once. But when father reveals his name and tells Neal that no poor artist shall ever marry his daughter, Neal walks away. Betty pleads with father, who finally says that he will give his consent if the artist paints something good enough for him to buy. Betty tells the good news to Neal. Encouraged by Betty's hopes Neal starts to paint his masterpiece. The day the masterpiece was presented to father Neal knew his fate, and when father said: "This is the worst I've ever seen," he walked away, heartbroken. Harry, a friend of Neal, was on his way with two girl friends to visit him. In a few words Neal told them the whole story. Ethel, a quick-witted girl, saw a way out and taking Neal apart, explained her scheme. She gave her Kodak to Neal and walked away. Father was fishing in the creek when Ethel approached him, and soon father was engaged in a flirtation with her. At the moment he kissed her a Kodak was at work. The next day Neal was seen putting the finishing touches to an enlargement of the scene of Ethel and father. Betty was with Neal, and together they go to see father. Betty hides in a bush and Neal goes to father and offers him his painting for the amount of $10,000. What was the use of arguing? Betty came just in time to see the check father handed to Neal, and when Neal kissed Betty father wanted to object, but they held him to his bargain. What a delight it was to see father, dodging mother, sneak in the backyard and put a match to that masterpiece of damaging evidence.
- Jerry selects a railroad track for a quiet siesta. He is interrupted by the whistle of an onrushing engine. He jumps to safety. Section hands give Jerry a hard job from which he escapes by jumping on a hand car. Arriving at a bridge, Jerry seeks shade under a buttress. Here he finds a fuse leading to a charge of dynamite. He hurls the bomb away just as it explodes. The section hands seize Jerry and haul him off to jail. Jerry falls in love with the daughter of a neighboring rancher, who is the object of the affections of Hank, a railroad man, and Joe, a half-wit. In confinement he finds that his prison adjoins a storeroom to which Joe has a key. Jerry watches through a knothole and sees the half-wit plugging an apple with cyanide. He realizes that Joe is going to give this deadly poison to the daughter. Jerry makes his escape to where Joe is teasing daughter with the poisoned apple. Jerry strikes it from his hand and they fight. The battle rages until father and the section hands, attracted by daughter's screams, separate them, but not until Jerry has been felled. They carry him into the house where, finding his heart has stopped, they place him on a couch and fold his hands across his chest. Jerry has been experiencing a nightmare. Sleep had overtaken him while waiting his call for a movie part.
- Ethel was to be married and father had figured the expense down to the last cent and really couldn't see how he was to meet it. Those things didn't bother son any and he and his chum helped themselves plentifully to wines and other good things, and were only restrained after father had kicked them out of the kitchen. Uncle John had arrived for the wedding and was temporarily staying away from his club and card games. About this time a burglar scare is started in the neighborhood and the family becomes worried about the wedding presents. George, the son, and Billie, the sister of the bride-to-be, decide to use a novel burglar alarm and go to a nearby store, where they purchase a quantity of flypaper. This they distribute around the house and especially around the wedding presents. Uncle John had wind of a very interesting card game, and while pretending to retire early, in reality he sneaks away to the club. Ethel and Billie retire and all seems peaceful. Uncle John, returning from the club, is held up and his watch, to which was attached his keys, taken by the robber. Rather than disturb the household, Uncle John gains admittance through the window and becomes helplessly entangled in the fly paper. His efforts to release himself arouse George, who, gun in hands, descends the stairs, encountering much flypaper on the way. In the dining room he encounters Uncle John, whom he supposes to be a burglar, and a fight ensues. The noise arouses father, mother, Billie and Ethel, who descend to the dining room. A policeman is attracted and arrives in time to prevent any tragedy. When Uncle John is finally relieved of his fly paper mask, the two youthful geniuses, Billie and George, are severely spanked.
- The fashionable Ferndale section is thrown into a state of excitement by a series of daring robberies. At breakfast one morning Mr. Goodrich learns from the morning paper that the night before the neighborhood had again been visited by burglars and thousands of dollars in money and jewelry carried away. Determined to guard his house against intrusion he writes to a private detective agency for men. His daughter Goldie is commissioned to deliver the note, but, meeting Jerry and Hank, two admirers, she suggests that they take the place of two detectives. The job, giving them an opportunity to be near their inamorata, Jerry and Hank accept. Having the freedom of the house, Hank sees how easy it is to rob it and succumbs to temptation. He dispatches a note to Bill, a rather tough customer, and instructs him to play burglar, promising to show him the way. The proceeds are to be divided fifty-fifty. Jerry learns of the plan and decides to foil it. That night Bill enters the house and is being escorted to the safe by Hank when he clumsily falls over a chair. The noise awakes Mr. Goodrich, who, armed with a rifle, starts after the conspirators. In the meantime a real burglar has entered the house. The shots meant for Bill and Hank make him seek cover and he wraps himself around with a pair of draperies. But Jerry has witnessed the act and decides to prove himself a hero. While Mr. Goodrich is telephoning for the police Jerry keeps a close watch on his quarry. When they arrive Hank and Bill have escaped, but Jerry, being an outsider, is collared as the burglar. He insists that there is a mistake and calls for Mr. Goodrich to prove it. To the rich man he explains that the burglar is hiding and points out the place. Then with a rush he captures him and turns him over to the police. Mr. Goodrich is delighted with Jerry's watchfulness and wishes to reward him. Jerry spurns money. He asks for the hand of Goldie. Mr. Goodrich gives his consent, but suggests that Jerry first consult Jack, Goldie's husband. As Jerry turns to Goldie he is amazed to see her in the arms of her husband, who has just entered. With one parting look he falls into a faint.
- It was in the dawn of civilization and Heela Hoola was the belle of Stonycave. Her admirers loaded her with beads and bear claws. Now a certain rich citizen of Stonycave, named Stony Kone, although he owned the largest cave in the city, could never get a mate and his only admirer was Miss Stone Hatchet, who was neither beautiful nor young. It chanced that Willy Walla, who was a young swell of the town, saw Heela Hoola, and his heartbeat violently against the wolf skin which clad him and he decided then and there to have Heela Hoola for his own. Among the domestic unhappiness in Stony Cave the most violent was that of Leaping Loo, and to increase it was the fact of the "other man," Little Big Club, whose infatuation tor Leaping Loo was the gossip of every cave in the town. Willy Walla having made a good impression with Heela Hoola, is knocked on the head by Stony Kone and the fair Heela Hoola is violently dragged away to Stony Kone's cave. Meanwhile Little Big Club has taken a violent fancy to Leaping Loo and pursues her with his love. Her husband, Hairy Hand, is furiously jealous, and, not knowing where his mate is, goes in search. He is told by Miss Stone Hatchet that Stony Kone has a woman in his cave and Hairy Hand goes in to see if it is his own woman. A terrific battle ensues and Hairy Hand emerges fr«m Stony Kone's cave bearing Heela Hoola, whom Stony Kone had captured. He turns Heela Hoola over to Willy Walla and together they go to Willy's cave in great happiness. Stony Kone's heart and bruises are healed by Miss Stone Hatchet, and the fair Leaping Loo elopes with Little Big Club and leaves Hairy Hand to shift for himself.
- Jerry resents the intrusion of a policeman upon his peaceful dreams, while curled up on a park bench, by putting the stout guardian into sweet repose with the use of a large club. While making a hasty exit out of the sight of the recovering "cop" Jerry is attracted by a loving couple on another park bench, and he at once finds it impossible to make his eyes behave. They attract the attention of Ginger, although she is being courted by Hank, and while looking over the shoulder of the elongated one she winks repeatedly at Jerry, giving him lots of courage. Hank gets an inkling of the flirtation and when he sees Jerry standing over his lady love he lets fly with both hands, but Jerry is too quick and he ducks, the blow falls on Ginger. Hank is overcome at the turn of events and attempts to explain, and as he bends over, Jerry lays him low with an iron pipe and then escapes. Hank, recovering, wants to make good, so he goes off to buy some soda pop. While he is gone Jerry hurries to the side of Ginger and while the two are having a delightful love scene Hank returns. He is about to wipe up the park with Jerry when the little fellow grabs a bottle of pop and again sends Hank sprawling to the ground and a moment later Jerry and Ginger run off together. Jerry is progressing very nicely with his love making when two other policemen hear Hank's tale and the trio start a hunt for the wooer. They soon discover Jerry and Ginger wrapped in each others arms, but while they debate as to how an approach should be made, Jerry gets wise and is off. Hank is determined, and his lanky legs soon overtake Jerry, but the quickness of the latter carries him into a big elevator building, and before Hank can lay hands on him he takes command of an elevator and shoots it upward. Hank goes in another elevator and gives chase and as a last resort Jerry makes for the roof. As he hides behind a chimney Hank spies him and the two struggle all over the roof, finally reaching the edge, Hank's superior strength gets the better of Jerry and the little fellow is sent flying through space to crash on the ground fourteen stories below. A crowd gathers, expecting to see a grease spot, but they are all knocked silly when Jerry jumps to his feet, brushes a little dirt from his clothing and starts off on a run. Hank, thinking that he has killed Jerry goes in an opposite direction, only to come face to face with his tormentor a few minutes later. Another chase follows and Jerry hides in a barrel, believing that Hank has not detected him. Hank creeps up, however, slaps a cover over the barrel and with the assistance of a carpenter nails it down. Jerry is then sent off on a perilous journey, coming to an end when the barrel crashes into a building. But again he is unhurt, and, seeing Hank in the distance, he runs to a dressmaking establishment and there he gets inside of a suit model and a handy woman's hat helps to disguise him. Hank strolls by and is attracted by the model. He flirts and then puts his arm about it. As he looks sheepishly towards the ground he sees Jerry's feet sticking out from under the dress and he becomes furious and starts to choke his victim. Two policemen see the act and, believing that Hank is killing a woman, they hurry on and beat him furiously over the head with their clubs. While the uproar is going on Jerry ducks out from under the female garb, throws the model into tin arms of a copper, who thinks it is a fainting woman. All hands get into a terrible mix-up as Jerry hurries away to the park. At last alone, he gets behind a bush and laughs long.
- Jerry and his boon companion Hank are in dire straits. The room rent is due, their hunger is unappeased, and they have not a "jitney" between them. Jerry, always full of ideas, suggests that they may at least get something to eat by the simple expedient of a free lunch counter. The barkeep doesn't mind donating one sandwich, but to supply a feast, never. So Jerry and Hank are thrown out of the place. At this juncture Wild Ike comes along. Bloodthirsty, he shoots up everybody and everything in sight. Unfortunately for Jerry and Hank they walk in his line of vision, but a rain of bullets prompts them to beat a hasty retreat. Wild Ike, now thoroughly aroused, pursues. They seek shelter in their rooms but the landlady becomes so pestiferous in her demands for rent that they flee to the woods. At one of the outposts they see a sign offering $500 reward for the capture of Wild Ike. A happy idea strikes them. Jerry is to make up as Wild Ike. Hank will turn him over to the sheriff as the genuine bandit, and Hank will collect the reward and split fifty-fifty with his co-conspirator. Ike, who has been wandering about, steals upon the plotters, overhears their plans and decides its a good one. He makes Jerry trade clothes with him and with visions of getting the reward himself escorts Jerry to the sheriff's office after blowing up Hank so that there will be no interference. But Ike failed to consider Hank's recuperative powers and just as he is collecting the $500 Hank rushes in, exposes the job, has Ike locked up, and with Jerry takes in the $500.
- While strolling down the street, Amos meets Betty, who induces him to join her, as she is going to a meeting of the anti-tipping society. He is made president and wears a badge which reads, "I Don't Tip." On his way to the barber shop Amos meets his old friend, Dave, who laughs at the badge. He has a terrible time in the barber chair, barely escaping alive, as the barber reads an item in the paper to the effect that Amos is president of the anti-tipping society. From there he goes to the restaurant, where he can't get the waiters to wait on him, as they too have read the item. He kicks the waiter and rushes out to the check room to get his coat. The check boy gets even by slipping him the wrong coat, which happens to be Dave's. Amos is arrested for stealing Dave's coat and has to tip the Judge to let him off. He writes Betty a letter telling her that he is the victim of foul play at the hands of Dave and will be up to see her to explain. Betty and Dave are walking along and Betty sees a cat which she would love to have, so Dave decides to get it for her. The owner of the cat ties a string around its neck and places it on the porch. A tramp comes along and steals it. He meets Dave, who buys the cat for Betty and brings it to her. The owner of the cat misses it and she and a policeman trace it to Betty's home. Dave is arrested and once more Amos and Betty are happily reunited.
- In this picture Jerry has a serious duty to perform, that of rescuing his girl from a "perfectly horrid" boarding house where her father has taken her. True to his character, Jerry causes mix-ups in which the landlady, the father, the policeman and Hank figure prominently. The first difficulty into which Jerry projects himself is a melee with the police in which the latter get the worst end of a garden hose encounter. Jerry escapes and disguises himself as a woman. In this garb he goes to rescue the girl. He cannot resist the temptation to have a little fun out of the cop, the boarder, and the father, who are misled by his costume and make love to him. But Jerry's fooling on the job and neglecting the serious business in hand finally gets him into trouble and at the end he suffers for his pranks.
- Jerry sees two footpads hide a wallet beneath some bushes and appropriates it after they depart. The money is sought by the police, who see Jerry with it. They arrest him, but by a ruse he escapes and rides off on one of the cop's horses. Jerry arrives at a gypsy camp and is smitten with the daughter of the chief. Hank also loves the girl, who is known as "little sister." Hank wants to make away with Jerry, but the chief tells him to bide his time as he desires Jerry's horse, and has in mind trading his daughter, Ophelia, for the animal. The trade is broached to Jerry, who, thinking by the trade he will get Ophelia, readily agrees. But when Ophelia is brought in Jerry wilts, jumps upon his horse, and rides hurriedly away, followed by Hank. Hank reaches Jerry on a road overlooking a cliff. A fight follows and Jerry throws Hank over the cliff. Just as he thinks himself safe, Jerry is surprised by the appearance of other gypsies, who, to revenge Jerry's victory over Hank, pounce upon him and throw him over the precipice. Meanwhile, Ophelia rushes to the scene, and seeing Jerry at the bottom of the cliff contrives a way to rescue him by throwing him a rope. Jerry grabs it and reaches a point of safety again. Hank follows the climb. Ophelia attempts to make love to Jerry again, but Jerry has had enough of gypsies and rides off to the police station, where he returns the stolen money and the lost horse.
- George's sporty ways at college are opposed by his father. George decides to go home for a visit and invites Harry, his chum, to accompany him, but commands Harry to taboo the sporty clothes and be introduced to his father as a minister's son. Harry agrees and dons a ministerial appearing suit. Father is so pleased with the sanctified appearance of his son's chum that he almost forgives George's bad record at school. An unlooked-for element, however, crops up in the form of George's sister, whose reading of novels has inflamed her mind with a longing for a masterful and powerful lover. Harry apparently being anything but that type, fails to excite any interest at all. Shortly after the boys arrive, the neighborhood is startled to learn of a wild man being at large in the vicinity. Billie, George's sister, at once proclaims that she could love a man like that. This gives the boys an idea. Harry is to disguise as a wild man, capture Billie by rough means and cure her of her wild desires. Harry disguises in skins and a beard and capturing the unfortunate Billie, forces her to prepare and cook a meal for him. Later her brother, disguised as a wild man and holding her in servitude, is worsted and beaten by Harry. Billie is carried away by Harry. She acknowledges him a hero. The next day Billie discovers the skins and beard and sees she has been duped. About this time, the real wild man having been shot at by an old farmer is skulking in the vicinity of Billie's home. As she comes away angry, the real wild man pounces and attempts to force her to go with him. She, thinking it was another bluff, resists. Harry, who is discouraged with his failure, decides to return to his own home. As he is leaving he sees Billie struggling with the wild man. He rescues her and is thereafter a real hero.
- Jerry continues to woo the daughter of a millionaire, despite the objections of the parent. The father determines to put an end to the courting and summons the police. The presence of the policeman does not bother Jerry, but it causes a heated argument between the father and the persistent wooer, and when the guardian of the law attempts to interfere he is knocked unconscious by his own club, of which Jerry gains possession. Other policemen are attracted and they arrest Jerry and the millionaire. At the jail Jerry manages to get hold of another club, and as he is about to be cast into a cell he brings the club down on the keeper's head and manages to escape, after locking the father in a cell. Jerry appropriates the use of a patrol wagon to himself and drives off again to woo the girl. He comes across some men who are enjoying themselves at archery. Interested, Jerry happens to get in the way of the flying arrows and arouses the indignation of the sportsmen. They kick Jerry about and then start to fight among themselves regarding the manner of scoring the shots which struck the intruder. In the meantime Jerry grabs several bows and some arrows and escapes. As Jerry arrives at his sweetheart's home, he sees the father coming along. Jerry drives his patrol wagon behind the house and prepares a note for the girl, which he attaches to one of the arrows. Attracting her attention by whistling, he is about to shoot the arrow with the note to her when the father is attracted. The millionaire starts out of the house in a hurry to get Jerry, but he is held off by a volley of arrows. Jerry sends the note to the girl through the air, and it is a proposal of elopement. The girl makes a rope of the bed clothing, lets herself down from the second floor and with Jerry starts off in the patrol wagon for a minister. The father telephones the police, who hurry from the station house to respond to the call, but they are astonished when they discover that their patrol wagon is gone. As they hurry to the millionaire's home by foot, Jerry and the girl are speeding away, and they make their escape along the road to happiness without further interference.
- Jerry is out of jail and has gone into the movies. He gets the idea by seeing a "movie nut" studying his part in the park. Jerry secures the scenario, returns to his lodging place, sweeps aside demands of the landlady and her husband for rent due, goes to his room, where he finds a sympathetic soul in the slavey. Together they rehearse a tragic scene. They rant and storm so loudly as to attract the attention of the landlord. He looks over the transom just as Jerry is stabbing the heroine. He calls the police, saying a murder was being committed. The officers throw open the door and all fall into the room. Jerry nimbly jumps over their prostrate forms, locks the door and goes off to apply for a job as an actor in the movies. Although last in line of applicants when he reaches the studio, he manipulates matters so that he is first when the assistant director appears looking for types. He is accepted by the director and cast for a policeman. And here is where the fun starts in earnest. Jerry knows all about the motion picture producing business, in his mind. His good-natured conceit not only gets him into all sorts of trouble, but the mess he makes of the scenes and the wreck he causes, not counting the ruining of several hundred feet of film, and the utter demoralization of the company, from director to property man, is a succession of screams.
- Needing sleep badly, Jerry tries to obtain it in the park, but the police department and some wicked boys make it difficult. When he finally does fall asleep, he has a dream of blowing up a lot of his enemies, the police, but awakens to find he has been made the victim of an explosion planned by the boys. He is arrested by the police who accuse him of causing the explosion. At the station house he makes his get-a-way and "butts in" on a five pointed mix-up between Roxie, the cook for the Mills household, her two rival police lovers and her master and mistress. Jerry saves the lives of the lovers, one from being roasted, the other from being frozen to death, but involves Roxie in a jealous row between Mr. and Mrs. Mills, and lands himself back in the clutches of the law.
- Jerry sees Tilly being chased by, as he supposes, a vicious dog and, seeing a chance to play the hero, he goes to her rescue. The owner of the animal appears and proves that the animal is quite harmless, much to Jerry's chagrin. Tilly and the dog's owner then have the laugh on the disgusted Jerry, who talks to himself and goes through such strange actions that a cop, who has been watching and listening to him, decides he is crazy and starts to take him away. Tilly pleads with the cop to release Jerry, which he finally does. Jerry accompanies Tilly to the house where she is employed as servant and she invites him in and treats him to a glass of beer. Tilly sees one of her admirers, a husky Swede, cooling and hides Jerry under the table. The Swede sits down at the table and helps himself to Jerry's beer. Startled by the approach of someone outside, whom they believe to be the owner of the house, the Swede runs out the back way and Jerry emerges from under the table. The frightened Tilly barely has time to hide him in a clothes basket when Sam, a laborer, enters. The Swede retraces his steps and, finding that the intruder is Sam, throws him down the cellar. His rival thus disposed of he begins to make love to Tilly. Jerry ventures to raise the cover of the basket and look out but is discovered by the Swede, who makes a dash for him but the nimble Jerry is too quick for him and jumps into the dumbwaiter. The Swede, not to be thwarted, runs down the cellar but Jerry hears him coming and jumps into the furnace, which is the only place of refuge in sight. Not wishing to follow him into the furnace the Swede returns to the kitchen, only to be hit on the head with an empty beer bottle by the angry Tilly and knocked unconscious. Sam stars a fire in the furnace and Jerry is forced to crawl up through the pipe. Emerging from the furnace he scares the mother and daughter nearly to death and their screams bring the father, revolver in hand. He fires at Jerry, who being unable to find an exit, dives back into the pipe and falls unconscious on the cellar floor, his clothes on fire. He revives in time to escape the clutches of father, who chases him about the cellar until, somewhat blinded by the smoke from Jerry's clothes, the father runs upstairs, thinking Jerry has gone out that way. Jerry, however, jumps out of the window but is seen by the Swede who starts in pursuit. A chase takes place, which ends by the Swede chasing Jerry into a sawmill and on to the roof. Here a fight takes place between the two but Jerry is no match for the husky Swede, who picks him up and throws him into the midst of a bunch of loafers. The Swede is not content with this, but seeing that Jerry is uninjured he takes a chimney and buries it into the crowd, knocking them helter-skelter. Jerry has no trouble in inciting the crowd to capture the Swede and they all pounce upon him while Jerry stands back and applauds. While the fight is raging two policemen are seen coming and the crowd soon scatters headed by Jerry, and the Swede is left to be arrested and taken away by the police. Jerry, laughing in derisive triumph, is seen peering around a post as his enemy, the Swede, is lead protestingly away.
- Peace prevailed in the Newlyweds household. An announcement from Mrs. Newlvwed's mother that she is coming to teach the young people how to run their house does not appeal to Mr. Newlywed and he consults his friend the doctor, who offers him but little consolation. Mother-in-law arrives and at once sets about running things. Mr. Newlywed. unable to stand it, comes home only after mother has retired. This state of affairs is not to be tolerated and when mother sees an ad in the paper of a discovery by Prof. Pill she fancies she sees a way out of the difficulties. The serum discovered by Prof. Pill when injected into a wayward husband makes him gentle and home-loving. Mother goes to see the professor and arrives in his office as he is in conference with the doctor. Overhearing the plot against Newlywed, the doctor, while the professor and mother are viewing the laboratory, substitutes plain water for the serum. Later hubby is put wise and when mother stabs him with the "hypo" he at once begins to meow and purr in a most feline manner. Mother and wifie are horrified as hubby laps the cream from his saucer. Finally mother calls Prof. Pill to restore her son-in-law to reason. Ere he can do so the adoption of three kittens by hubby causes both the wife and the doctor friend to upbraid mother so terribly that she grabs her belongings and hurriedly leaves for home. Mother's departure with the aid of a small tablet given him by the doctor friend has a wonderful effect on hubby and he once more is sane. The peace and happiness of the Newlywed household is restored.