Sis loses her place as maid because the attentions of Mike, the mail man, prevent her from carrying out her duties. She gets a job as assistant to the demon janitor of the building in which Madame Prichet has her hairdressing parlor. Madame Prichet hurries off to her home in response to a telegram that "Your husband has eloped with a chicken." Sis, left in charge of the shop, tries her best to do the work, but she knows only one style of hairdressing and that the stiff pigtails she wears herself. As the name of Madame Prichet's shop is an authority the society leaders accept the style as the latest from France and soon all the society of the town is wearing pigtails. It leads to absurd complications that form the balance of this one-reel comedy.