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- Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- Mr. and Mrs. Love, with their young son, are so happy that hubby is usually late for work. The stenographer in Mr. Love's office who is in love with the bookkeeper places a note and handkerchief in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. Hubby spills some of baby's milk on his coat and when wifey is cleaning it she discovers the note and demands an explanation from hubby, who knows nothing about it. Wifey decides that she must live in the same house with hubby on account of the baby, but apart. She puts a chalk line on everything in the house, even the maid, and tells hubby that the line is to be considered a six foot wall. A friend of hubby's calls and is much embarrassed when Mrs. Love ignores him when he speaks to her. It is then up to Mr. Love to explain that the chalk line is a six foot wall. The stenographer, in the meantime, is angry because the bookkeeper failed to answer her note and asks for an explanation. She is informed that the note was not in his pocket that it must have been placed in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. They decide to explain the situation to Mr. Love, and upon calling at the house are confronted by Mrs. Love to whom they explain everything. Mr. Love is holding baby and feeling a damp chill on his arm he places baby on the floor. Baby gets busy with its little body and rubs out the chalk line. Wifey returns to the room and is pleased to see the chalk line removed. She awakens hubby, who informs her that he did not remove the line. They miss baby and find him looking at them from under a chair and of course, due to the explanation from the stenographer and bookkeeper Mrs. Love apologizes to hubby, who forgives her.
- Diamond garters are stolen, then planted on an innocent "fall guy", with embarrassing consequences.
- When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
- Plump and Runt leave their wives for a 'rest cure' at the seashore, where they meet two lovely young ladies. Unfortunately, their wives decide to follow them.
- Shifty Mike attempts to force his attentions on Jabbs' daughter, but is thwarted. Vowing revenge, Mike hires Pokes to throw a bomb through Jabbs' window. Instead, Pokes blows himself up.
- Pokes is hit by a car, and instead of damages, the driver gives him the car. Pokes and Jabbs go out driving, but are mistaken for car thieves.
- Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs each hire detectives to protect themselves from burglars. When a burglar does show up, the detectives create confusion by arresting Mr. and Mrs. Jabbs.
- Plump and Runt serve a 30 day prison sentence for an illegal poker game. When they're released, a new prison 'friend' follows them home, which makes things difficult, since the boys told their wives they were on a 30 day business trip.
- Plump, a mechanic, gets a call to rescue a stranded female motorist, running afoul of her husband, who sees them together and thinks they're having an affair.
- Pokes, the porter in an office building, has several times by his acts of omission incurred the wrath of the superintendent, but each time he has been forgiven and granted another chance. Finally, after a clash with Jabbs, a new tenant in the building. Pokes is discharged. Securing a position as book agent, Pokes is filled with one ambition to sell a book to Jabbs. Stalking his intended victim like a jungle tiger, Pokes becomes Jabbs' shadow and haunts him in both his working hours and in his dreams. No matter how often Jabbs and the Superintendent throw him out from the office. Pokes turns up in the most unexpected manner, until Jabbs, in a frenzy, decides that the only way to rid himself of the pest is to buy one of the books. Having made the purchase, Jabbs returns home, secure in the belief that at last he is safe from Pokes salesman's urgings, but to his horror finds not only the members of his family but even the butler the proud possessors of the despised books.
- The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery Pokes. Pokes is installed and made man of all work. Bills are to be posted, props collected, scenery put in place, trunks delivered to dressing rooms. This all falls to Pokes' lot. Stylish Kate, the scrubwoman, is secretly in love with Jabbs, the manager. Jabbs objects to her attentions and several times has to call her down and remind her of her position. The Limber Brothers arrive and, after tipping Pokes, are shown to the dressing room. The Ham Family also arrives. The greatest trouble is created when the Fickle Sisters put in an appearance and smile upon Jabbs. Jabbs places them in the star room. Pokes discovers Jabbs making love to the sisters and informs Stylish Kate, who, with a pistol, makes things so lively that had the police not interfered the afternoon performance would have been delayed.
- Among the prohibitions contained in the ordinances of Cordeliaville are "Lovers" and "Babies," and the law is prosecuted in this village by the Women's League, but lovers know no laws and Babe Hardy and Kate Price are no exception. Meanwhile a woman arrives in town with a baby and seeing the notice hides the baby. Babe and Kate find the motherless child and decide to take it home. The Women's League in a body visits Kate's home, to protest against further love-making in Cordeliaville. Babe is at the house when they arrive and they find a sheepish expression on his face which perhaps is explained when the new-found baby begins to cry. The scandal is worse than if a murder had been committed in the village of Cordeliaville, and it takes many an explanation and unlooked for circumstance to -straighten out the mix-up.
- Peggy Plump marries Pokes, but he deserts her after they move to the city and he finds a prettier girl.
- Jane Higgs is admired by Pokes, who tries in every possible way to win her affections but to no avail. Jane is not only the village constable but also the head of the Fire Department, and the local Justice of the Peace as well. Being suddenly called to assist the sheriff of the adjoining county, Jane appoints Pokes as her substitute to take charge of the office in her absence. Jane has scarcely departed when Pokes receives word that Bad Jabbs is shooting up Thirsty Norton's Café. Putting on his police hat, Pokes starts off to capture Jabbs, but one look at the bad man and Pokes seeks refuge back in the office and emerges only at the call of fire from a nearby barn. While busy at the fire, Robin rushes in and demands that Pokes act as justice of the peace and marry him immediately. Pokes quits the fire and proceeds with the wedding service, but the call for help coming again from the dance hall stops the marriage while Pokes again rushes forth. Then the various calls coming for Pokes that are part of the duties of the many offices he holds keeps him rushing madly in all directions. He finally discovers that Robin has eloped not with his real sweetheart, but with her older sister who has disguised herself in Ethel's clothes. However, now that he has a couple of young people in front of him, Pokes is determined to fulfill the duties of the justice of the peace and is going to marry them regardless of Robin's vehement protests. By a clever scheme Pokes succeeds in capturing Jabbs and putting out the fire in the barn and proudly returns to the office with his prisoner. When Pokes arrives at the office, he finds that in his absence Jane has returned with Robin's real sweetheart, Ethel, and has already performed the wedding service, and instead of being praised for his daring capture of Jabbs, he sees his admired Jane clasp the bad man to her bosom and proclaim him as her long-lost husband. Picking up the presents he has given Jane, Pokes, heartbroken, wends his weary way over the hills to another village.
- Plump and Runt are pursuing the same girl. She agrees to marry the one who can get the better job.
- Although one of the leading bankers of the city, Jabbs, is also a member of the Mysterious Seven, an organization that passes out regular cash dividends to its members. Pokes has incurred the enmity of Jabbs by attempting to perform the wonderful mystic egg trick in Jabbs' new silk hat. Poor Pokes not knowing that his new sweetheart is the daughter of Jabbs, purloins from Mrs. Jabbs the new necklace that her husband has recently given to her. Pokes thinks only of re-establishing himself firmly in his sweetheart's affections and to further his suit, gives to Ethel the very necklace that he has stolen from her mother. When Jabbs and his wife meet Pokes, they quickly recognize him as the man who has caused them so much annoyance and Jabbs summons his trusty fellow members of the secret organization. They chase unfortunate Pokes up through the house to the rooftops from where Pokes succeeds in escaping, but only to stumble into the meeting rooms of the society. Here Pokes succeeds in turning the tables on Jabbs and his fellow conspirators and completely routs the entire society.
- Mrs. Love is jealous of Mr. Love's stenographer and insists upon taking her place. Hubby does not like to refuse his wife's request and decides, after she is installed as his stenographer, to get rid of her some way, as the discharged stenographer is a great help to him in business. A friend of Love's schemes to help him. He telephones to Love's office and starts a flirtation with the stenographer (Love's wife). Wifey is indignant and tells Love of the incident upon his return. He informs her that he lost a good customer on account of her impertinence. She goes to explain to the customer, who tells her that he never phoned. She then realizes she was tricked and decides hubby shall pay the penalty. She quits the job when she is assured of a lot of pretty things.
- Harry arrives in town and telephones his college friend, Fred, who has since been married, that while he is in town he would like to meet his wife. Fred notifies his wife, Rose, that he will have a friend home for lunch. Rose goes out to purchase a few things and Harry, who is somewhat a flirt, not knowing that Rose is Fred's wife, flirts with Rose and is snubbed. His persistence, however, angers Rose, who calls a policeman and has him arrested. Harry calls upon Fred to bail him out and, together, they start for Fred's home, and as Rose is busy getting lunch, she fails to hear them enter. Suddenly Fred is called away, and before going tells Harry to make himself at home and while he is looking the place over, Rose is frightened by the sight of the flirt in her home and again calls the same policeman, who arrests Harry for the second time. Fred, who is again called upon to get Harry out, decides to hold him at the office this time and Rose makes up her mind to tell Fred of the experiences. She calls at Fred's office during Fred's absence and is again frightened by the same flirt, and the victim of circumstances is arrested for the third time by the same policeman. Rose accompanies Fred to the station this time, and after bailing Harry out for the third time, demands an explanation. Apologies and explanations are in order, after which everyone is forgiven, and Harry is properly introduced to Rose. Morale; Harry, who thinks he is away from everyone, especially the girls, is quietly fishing, when along comes several beauties and rather than flirt Harry jumps overboard and comes up to find a mermaid facing him. He dives under again, followed by the mermaid and the bubbles are evidence of his end.
- Pokes gets a job as an extra in the movies, but he can't take direction, and runs amok all over the studio.
- When a person rents a furnished room he should be careful to find first out something about his fellow roomers. However, Jabbs, a stranded actor, failed to take this precaution. Therefore when he receives from a theatrical agent a part in a drama, he rushes back to his room where he expected to study in quiet. To his consternation, however, Pokes, a one-man orchestra who occupies the opposite room, selects the same time to practice some new music. Driven desperate by the awful bedlam in Pokes' room and finding that all his appeals to the noisy musician to keep quiet are useless, Jabbs packs his belongings and vacates his room. He rents a room in the home of Prof. Wisem who is working on a wonderful rain-making bomb. The Professor's daughter Ethel is in love with Robin and the Professor has promised the young couple that he will give his consent to their marriage when his bomb is proven a success. In the Professor's home, Jabbs believes he has found the quietude he needs to study his part, but to his dismay he finds that Pokes, who has been ordered out of his former room, has rented the same room of which Jabbs has already taken possession. In the fight that follows for possession of the room, both Jabbs and Pokes are badly mussed up and in the end agree to be friends and share the room together. That night Robin and Ethel, after having witnessed several futile attempts of the Prof. to produce rain, decide to take matters in their own hands. They rig up a fire hose and arrange that when the bomb explodes, the water shall be turned on and in this way hope that the Prof. shall be deceived into giving his consent to their marriage. The plan proves a great success as far as the young couple are concerned, but not so with Pokes and Jabbs. These two worthies, who happen to be in bed asleep, have the misfortune to have their bed placed directly beneath a broken skylight upon which the hose is turned. The water pours into the room drenching the pair of them and before they can escape from their predicament the rising waters flood the entire room.
- Babe and Raymond, two pals, and tenants in the Riverside Apartments, are both ruled by wives who insist on their remaining home nights. The night of a big poker game at the club, the pals frame up a scheme whereby, appearing to flirt with each other's wives, a fight will follow and in the melee, Babe and Raymond will beat it to the club. The scheme works fine, for after the fake fight is over an ambulance is summoned to carry Raymond off to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Raymond makes a spectacular escape from the ambulance and reaches the club only to learn that Babe has not yet arrived. Raymond with the assistance of the other club members, masked as burglars, force an entrance into Babe's flat. Kate, Babe's husky spouse, mistaking Raymond and his pals for regular burglars, enters the combat, and routs the entire crowd, reserving Raymond as her last victim. During the confusion, Babe escapes and arrives at the club, where he learns with consternation of the treatment meted out to his club mates. Raymond has fared even worse than the others, and when Kate gets through with him he surely is a fit subject for the hospital, and this time he makes no objection to being carried there, where he is bandaged and put into bed. Babe, in the meantime, has been a heavy winner in the card game and also has partaken of innumerable liquid refreshments. When he arrives at the apartment house he stumbles into Raymond's flat. Mrs. Raymond, waiting well armed for the return of her nubby, brings down with full force on Babe's head the rolling pin meant for Raymond's reception. Stunned and battered, Babe is also carried to the hospital, where he finds himself in the next bed to his pal.
- Circumstantial evidence is not always conclusive and it is sometimes wiser to wait until sufficient proof is collected before one jumps to a conclusion. If Ethel had done this when she discovered her sweetheart, Jabbs, with his arm about a young lady in a public café, she would have learned that her fiancé was only trying to caress her. Instead of listening to an explanation, Ethel tells Jabbs that the engagement is at an end and that she will marry the first man whom she happens to meet. After several rebuffs she finally discovers Pokes, a tramp, who has been chased by a dog through the window of Ethel's house and into her kitchen, where he is making himself at home. Ethel places her proposition before Pokes, telling him that she will give him a good salary to marry her and to be her husband in name only. Pokes, thinking of the good food and easy money, consents, but balks when it comes to shaving and taking a bath. However, through the cajoling of Ethel's maiden aunt and the assistance of the butler, Pokes is finally cleaned up and looks fairly presentable. The possession of so much money turns Pokes' pocket, and his first thought is for a long drink to quench his thirst, so he sends the butler for a supply of liquid refreshments. The aunt catches him in the attempt and throws the beer away. Nothing daunted, Pokes makes a second and even a third attempt, but each time the aunt interferes so that poor Pokes is almost dying for want of his beloved beer. Finally, in a last desperate endeavor, Pokes thinks of a scheme whereby the butler, with the aid of a hose and funnel, can supply the cherished drink. The scheme almost succeeds until the last minute, when the entrance of the aunt and one of her old admirers spoils the well-made plans of Pokes and ends in the deluging of aunt and her sweetheart. On the night of the wedding, Jabbs reads of the coming marriage ceremony and makes a last effort to have Ethel listen to his explanation. Ethel, now too willing to be convinced, listens to Jabbs' pleadings and renews the engagement. The problem of what to do with Pokes confronts the happy lovers until Jabbs suggests that rather than disappoint the assembled guests they substitute Auntie and Pokes for the bridal ceremony. Pokes, who has been imbibing rather free in the interim, does not learn of the substitution until the last moment, when he raises the wedding veil and there discovers the aunt. In despair, he falls through the window, rushes back to his old haunts in the freight yards and leaves Jabbs and Ethel to the tender mercies of the minister.
- Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed decide to spend a day at the beach, but before leaving Mrs. Newlywed insists upon purchasing a little beauty powder. While she is getting the powder her husband decides to get some smokes. Wifey returns first and mistaking a man in a passing auto for Mr. Newlywed gives chase. Hubby in the meantime returns and while waiting anxiously for Wifey mistakes a woman for her. He follows his supposed wife in another car. Arriving at the beach both husband and wife search bathing houses, and cafés looking for each other. They search in vain and dejected leave for home feeling that it was a case of mistaken identity. Mrs. Newlywed arrives home first, closely followed by her spouse. Explanations ensue and hubby and Wifey decide to spend their future holidays at home.
- Wifey gossips and stirs up the neighborhood. Hubby determines to teach her a lesson, and having prepared her mind by pretending to be greatly worried, sends her to bed with the injunction not to look out of the window facing the woodshed. Her curiosity gets the better of her, and she sees hubby bury something in a hole under a tree. That night he talks in his sleep and confesses a murder. Next morning as soon as she thinks be is gone she confides in a neighbor, who informs the police. The "criminal" is arrested and taken to the scene of the crime, where the box is dug up. On the lid is the inscription: "You can't keep a secret, but you can keep this." The laugh is on Wifey, and we hope she is cured of her propensity to tell everything she knows.