Old Man Butts, president and owner of an oatmeal factory, was noted for his lovely disposition. Anastasia, his daughter, was the old man's sole heir, and her suitors were numbered by the score. Herman Schultz was father's choice of the visitors but Anastasia had a mind of her own, and had chosen as her suitor Archibald Vanderloop. Archibald, with an eye to father's millions, opened a tonsorial parlor in the town, to be near his lady love. He was addicted to the use of musk, as it was the badge of his profession. One evening during a brilliant concert, Archibald, absent-mindedly, pulls out his bottle of musk and sprays himself. Father smells the musk and thinks it is some new kind of disinfectant. He at once comes to the conclusion that the crowd is infected with some contagious disease and there is a general house cleaning. The guests are dumped outside and father begins to fumigate the house. Father accuses Archibald of being the one who has caused all the trouble. The next day Anastasia snubs Herman. She makes a date with Archibald to visit a fortune teller. Herman visits the fortune teller's booth and learns some of the trade. He persuades the fortune teller to allow him to write the answers, then the two come in to have their fortunes told. After he has presented her with a sum of money she consents. The fortune teller tells them that she can only tell the fortune of one at a time and Anastasia is taken in first. Her fortune is told, and the answers written upon a slate. Herman is handling the answering, and he writes that the barber already has a wife and that her true lover is a little man with a moustache. In reply to another question he writes: "Feed your lovers with biscuits and watch them. The one who eats the biscuits will be your 'true lover.'" Anastasia leaves and Archibald takes her place. In reply to his questions, Herman tells him that Anastasia has already poisoned three lovers and that he will be the fourth. He also states that she has just put poison in her biscuits. Of course, neither of them believes in fortune telling, but in thinking over the matter they become suspicious of each other. Arriving at the house, Anastasia decides to test the fortune teller's predictions and brings in a nice plate of biscuits to Archibald. Herman sneaks up to the window and peeps in. Before he thinks, Archibald takes a biscuit and starts to eat it. He suddenly thinks of the fortune teller's prediction and throws the biscuit from him with horror. Anastasia believes that the prediction was true and Archibald was merely trifling with her affections. She orders him out of the house. Herman comes in at this opportune moment, sees the plate of biscuits and immediately proceeds to demolish them. Anastasia believes that her true lover has been found and goes to the waiting arms of Herman, while Archibald hurries away congratulating himself on his narrow escape from poisoning.