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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kate, the prize kitchen mechanic of the Goldrox home, has always envied the fair maids she has seen promenading the avenue, and resolves that, no matter what the cost be, she herself, is someday going to enjoy the life of a society leader. Babe, the driver of one of the city's garbage carts, also has daydreams of the life he would like to lead. In the park one day Kate, adorned in her best, encounters Babe, also attired in his Sunday best. The two entertain each other with stories of the thrills and bores of the lives they pretend to lead, greatly to the delight of the other. When the Goldrox are away for a day, Kate seizes the golden opportunity to indulge in the joys of living the life of the social grand dame of her dreams. With the help of the family servants she invites Babe to the house, where she proceeds to entertain him. Babe is greatly impressed and the affair is progressing rapidly, but on the following morning, Babe, dressed in his overalls, drives up to the back of the house to empty the garbage cans. He meets Kate coming out of the kitchen with the scraps of the morning meal, and each learns of the deception of the other.
- Runt buys an old flivver, and with Plump as his chauffeur, he picks up his girl. Suddenly the car takes to the air, with the police in pursuit.
- Plump and Runt are starving artists who are both in love with their pretty model. Runt chooses money over love and marries a widow he thinks is rich. It turns out the model is the real heiress, and Plump marries her.
- Florence, the village belle and heiress, accepts the invitation of Runt, the local sport, for a ride in his new flivver, much to the heartache of Plump, her true but rustic sweetheart. Runt, by his tales of wonderful adventure to be gained in the city he himself soon plans to visit, causes Florence to yearn to be one of the myriad lights that help to make the Great White Way burn so brightly. When Runt reaches the city he falls into the clutches of a lawless gang and soon becomes one of its most ardent members. Scheming to gain possession of her riches, Runt writes to Florence telling her to come to town where he will show her the sights. Poor Plump is heartbroken at the departure of his sweetheart. Premonition tells Plump that his loved one is in danger. He hastens to the city where he finds a clue to Florence's whereabouts and follows her trail to the den where she is about to fall a victim at the hands of the gang's leader. Using all of his strength Plump routs the gang and rescues Florence.
- Hubby gets home from the road and prepares to enjoy a few days at home, when Wifey announces that she will begin her spring cleaning. Hubby immediately has business at the office, but the boss is heartless and sends him home. He meets Bill, a trusty friend, and arranges with him to send a telegram demanding Hubby's immediate presence in Jersey City on business. All day Hubby looks for the telegram to arrive. In the interim he gets in bad with Wifey over the spring cleaning. His meals are irregular and unsatisfying ; he cannot sleep after 5 a.m. At last the telegram arrives and he tells Wifey he must be off. She advises him to read the message. He does so and reads: "Stay home and help your wife. Bill." Then he sinks through the floor.
- Jabbs is serious about business, but Pokes just wants to flirt with the stenographer. While Pokes is preoccupied, crooks break in and steal the safe with a large sum of money, entrusted by an important client.
- Hubby and Wifey part company and their divorce suit comes off. They arrive in the city and, unconsciously, put up at the same hotel. There is only one bath left, connecting between two rooms, and they are assigned to these rooms. The similarity of their names causes the house detective to watch the rooms. Wifey goes to take a bath and is scared away by Hubby's sneezing. Hubby enters the bathroom and locks the communicating door. Wifey, indignant, beats on the door. Hubby sniffs the perfume she has left behind, and thinks of his wife. He writes a note of apology and retires. Wifey sniffs the cigarette butt he has left and thinks of her husband. She also writes a note. The house detective, his suspicions aroused by the constant slamming of doors, enters and arrests Hubby for playing Bo-peep under the door. Then he goes to arrest Wifey. Each gets into the other's room and sees his or her photograph on the dressing table. With a cry of joy they clinch as they meet in the bathroom, and when the detective interferes they drown him in the tub.
- Kate, president of the Suredeath Street Railway Company, has a daughter, Ethel, who is the apple of her eye. Babe, an inventor of a safety device for the controller of a trolley car and possessor of a funny little wink, arrives to demonstrate his invention to Kate. Through the aid of Florence, his confederate, whom he has managed to install in Kate's office as a stenographer, Snorky, president of a rival traction company, learns a demonstration will be given on a certain date. Snorky plants a bomb underneath the car so that when the lever strikes a certain mark the bomb will explode. However, Babe has asked Ethel to accompany him on a trial spin a few hours before the demonstration, and their entrance blocks Snorky's escape. Finding himself trapped in the death car, Snorky raves and a desperate struggle takes place between him and Babe. Babe overpowers Snorky and hurls him off the roof of the fast-flying car just as the bomb explodes. The explosion throws Babe and Ethel high in the air, but with Babe's usual good luck, he and Ethel land safely in Kate's auto.
- All the workers at Runt's restaurant are distracted by the pretty cashier, and neglect their jobs. Runt hires Plump as a new chef, but soon discovers he's a better flirt than he is a cook.
- When Raymond's frivolous young wife informs him that household duties were too hard for her, they ask Kate, the cook, where a neat maid can be secured. Kate, being the proud possessor of the luxury of Plump as her husband, instantly sees a chance whereby she can keep the job in her own household and also force Plump to work for his daily bread. Informing the young couple that she knows a jewel of a maid, she hurries home and dresses Plump in some of her clothes. Both Raymond and his wife, impressed with the appearance of the new maid, try to make it as pleasant as possible for her. However, Kate's jealousy comes to the surface when she sees her loving man petted by the young wife and Plump, to his disgust, is forced to submit to the attentions of Raymond. Finally when the young wife discovers her husband flirting with the maid, her anger arises suddenly and she orders Plump out of the house. Raymond intercedes for the maid and matters rest until Kate again catches the wife petting Plump. In the confusion Raymond learns that the supposed maid is a man and Plump is done up to n frazzle.
- After the entire staff quits, a desperate hotel manager hires a pair of street cleaners (Plump and Runt) as his porter and bellboy.
- Mr. and Mrs. Plump are both prone to jealousy. When Mr. Plump is called back to the office late at night, she gets suspicious and follows him dressed in his clothes. When he comes home and finds her not there, he dresses in her clothes to tries to catch her with another man.
- Pokes gets a job as an extra in the movies, but he can't take direction, and runs amok all over the studio.
- Harriet married Sidney only on the condition that he promised never to smoke. Sidney remains faithful to his pledge for many months. Sidney's struggle to refrain from smoking is watched by his stenographer and clerk. A messenger boy smoking a cigarette delivers a telegram and Sidney orders him from the office before he is tempted to snatch the cigarette from him. Dick, a friend of Sidney's and one-time model for their class, is invited to the house for dinner. He. however, is not the model he once was; he is now a real sporty traveling salesman for a cigarette company. Finally, Sidney solves the difficulty. He is still the perfect husband, but does not mean to allow Harriet to rule him in all things. He has rented a room where he spends an hour each day transacting his business and incidentally smoking to his heart's content, but his happiness is short-lived, for Jesse Walsh has traced him and tells the wife what he suspects. Here the real trouble begins but Sidney is not deprived of his cigarette. Harriet also is a little inclined to take a "puff " to satisfy her husband.
- The young married couple have a few pieces of home-made furniture in their flat. The bride's uncle sends her all his old heirlooms, which fill the flat to overflowing. Hubby buys a rocking chair and brings it home. He thinks he is in the wrong flat until the janitor reassures aim. He has to use great care in navigating and gets stuck while trying to get into the kitchen. The bride and the janitor release him. He determines to sell the heirlooms and buy some real furniture. No sooner is the flat furnished with modern pieces when uncle comes to visit the couple. They dare not face him and escape to the roof. The scuttle is closed, and they are left in a rainstorm without shelter.
- Mr. Green, a prosperous architect, is tried by his wife's fads. Her latest one is charity. Over the breakfast table she tells him her plan for various charity affairs. She gives his clothes to beggars and each day the army of solicitors is increased and she sends them to hubby's office. When she learns that hubby turns them away she is dumbfounded. She goes so far as to put a drunken woman to sleep in his bed and it is up to hubby to sleep on the floor. The next day Green gets a brilliant idea. He purchased six dogs and takes them home with him, and when wifey asks the reason she is informed that he believes in animal charity. Trying days follow; he brings home a monkey, several kittens, white mice and an old skate of a horse which he turns loose on the lawn. He next brings home a sick elephant and is confident the elephant will recover if allowed to play on the front lawn with the horse. That night at dinner Green is enthusiastic over plans for a home for stray animals which he thinks would look nice on the front lawn. They then agree to give up their charities and Green makes out a check for the Bide-a-Wee Home and one for the Associated Charities.
- Mrs. Plump is the boss at home. After she berates her husband for flirting, even though he's innocent, he turns to Runt to help him get the upper hand at home.
- 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.
- Though Ray's mother has a decided preference for blue blood, her daughter plainly showed that the old-fashioned color was good enough for her. Plump's life stream was red, while that of the count was supposed to be tinged with cobalt. To mystify mother. Plump and his pal. Runt, make up as "Bluebloods" and gain the old lady's approbation. All goes well until the real aristocrat appears on the scene and then blood of all shades flies about. Mother finally comes to the conclusion that the old tinge is the best and allows the willful maid to have her own way.
- Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
- 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.
- Plump's girlfriend is sent to boarding school. To stay close to her, he disguises himself as one of the girl students. Their plan to elope is almost ruined until a burglar causes great confusion at the school and they make their getaway.
- Mrs. Plump hides some money in her traveling coat, but it's stolen by tramps. On his way home, Plump is caught speeding and thrown in jail, where he finds the tramps, takes some money from the coat, and pays his fine.
- Though Plump and Runt had yet to save the first life, it was through no fault of theirs, of the one with his antediluvian flivver and the other with his leaky old boat spent the days hoping that someone would give them the opportunity they so anxiously longed for. The visit of the beautiful young diver, Miss Aqua, accompanied by her manager, caused the break between our heroes. Each fell for her charms and sought means to humiliate the other. Love and jealousy occupied all their thoughts. First one, then the other would be favored by the diver's smiles, until, drive almost crazy, Runt decides to get rid of his fat rival by digging a hole under the water, and enticing there his hated one-time pal. A kittish old maid is the first victim, and poor Plump, attempting to rescue her, himself falls in and the two are buried in the ocean bed. The victor now escorts his loved one into the water, thinking to gloat over his rival's destruction, but, remorse seizing him, he aids in the rescue of the almost choked Plump. The diver now gives an exhibition of her powers, and pretending to be overcome, the two gallants dash to her rescue by boat and flivver. The flivver arrives first, but explodes, throwing its occupants high in the air and upsetting Runt, who is now over the spot in his boat. However, their united efforts bring the charmer safely to land, where, to their horror, they are met and thanked by the lady's husband. Once more, their best intentions foiled, Plump and his pal cool their fevered and disappointed brows beneath the salty waves.
- 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.
- Mrs. Love sees a bargain in real estate and decides to surprise her hubby by purchasing it and paying for it with her own money. The real estate man calls regularly to collect his payments and upon several of those occasions he is seen by hubby, who, not knowing who he is, gets jealous. He decides not to say anything about it to his wife who decides to say nothing to her husband until the lot is paid for. The continued visits of the real estate man annoys hubby and he decides to put a detective on the case. The detective gets working; he goes to the office of the real estate man and obtains a good look at him; he then decides to spy around the house. He sees the collector call for his regular installment and notices hubby that the mouse is in the trap. He enters the house and arrests the real estate man, much to the surprise of his wife. Hubby comes in and when he is acquainted with the facts in the case he pleads for forgiveness. Wifey forgives him.
- Plump and Runt are idle schoolboys who like to flirt better than study. When the circus comes to town their girlfriend runs off to become a high diver.
- A bad real estate man sells a phony house to a young couple. They are delighted with it until things begin to happen. The water won't run until after they have turned on every tap, then it runs too much and floods the house before they are aware of what is happening. The gas works on the installment plan and then won't behave. Things go from bad to worse, until the house starts to leak in a heavy storm. Hubby steals a big umbrella from the real estate man's buggy and comes home. The wind blows the door shut, and when he kicks it the panel bursts, being made of paper. With the umbrella the couple are sheltering themselves as best they can when the roof of the house blows away and they are engulfed by the rain. What happens afterward is left to the imagination.
- Ethel's father insists that she marry a rich Count instead of Jabbs, her true love. Jabbs disguises himself as the Count and woos Ethel. Meanwhile the real Count is held up by chicken thieves.
- The mayor hires Bungles as a policeman, and sends him out to take care of three down-on-their-luck European aristocrats, who are competing for the attention of the Mayor's daughter.
- Babe, the pride of Cheestown and his mother's darling, arrives at Tidewater College at the opening of the school term. Babe's idea of a good time is a volume of the Iliad and a bag of peanuts. But after he has laid eyes on Florence, the prize peach of the Co-Eds, he deserts his book long enough to start a mild flirtation with her. This is directly in violation of the rules issued by the upper classmen to govern the conduct of the freshmen. Babe pays no heed to the rules, and thereby incurs the hostility of Tom, the Sophomore leader, who orders Babe to be subjected to the hardest of initiation and hazing stunts. However, after Babe has had a few rough stunts pulled off on him, his mother comes to visit her darling boy and, seeing the way he has been treated, decides to take a hand in the hazing game herself. Disguising herself, she lays in wait for the sophomores, and when they visit Babe's room for the purpose of hazing him, they receive the surprise of their lives.
- A girl falls in love with a man who is already engaged, and decides to cause the groom to be late for his wedding.
- Pokes, the porter poses for Ethel, a struggling young artist. Ethel unfortunately is very short of ready money and in consequence is asked by her landlord to vacate her room at once. As a last desperate resort, Ethel tries to sell a painting of Pokes posing as an archer, but the rebuff handed to her by the critical and unsympathetic art dealer, is the final blow to her spirit, so she resolves to make a getaway from the apartments. She conspires with Pokes to smuggle her trunk from the studio and when the latter comes to remove the trunk he unwittingly locks inside it, the landlord, who, while inspecting its contents and hearing his wife's voice on the corridor outside, had taken refuge in the trunk. Pokes starts to carry the trunk to the railroad station where Jabbs, the baggage man is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a trunk containing a shipment of gold consigned to a local bank. Some crooks, who have learned of the expected shipment of gold mistake Ethel's trunk for that of the treasure chest, overpower Jabbs, and load the trunk with the unfortunate landlord inside, upon a truck which they have commandeered. Upon Ethel's arrival, Jabbs' plight is discovered, the alarm given and the pursuit of the fleeing crooks is started. The police follow the desperate thieves and overtaking them through the help of Pokes and Jabbs finally succeed in releasing the landlord from his perilous position.
- Plump and Runt steal some food and are forced by the sheriff to spend the night in a haunted house, which is really the hideout for a gang of counterfeiters.
- Wifie reads that every woman must create an artistic atmosphere in her home to avoid becoming old. She thinks she already shows signs of age, and takes up painting, the first thing that enters her head. Hubby stands for the litter of artist's paraphernalia all over the house, but objects when Wifie decorates his collars with her landscapes, causing him to become the laughing-stock of the men in the office. When Wifie gets his best friend to pose as a model for "A Perfect Man," Hubby is fired for staying at home, jealously watching lest a love affair develops. Hoping a baby will cure her mania for painting, Hubby adopts one, only to find that babies are not in her line, and he puts it on a rich man's doorstep. A policeman is about to arrest him, but Hubby claims he was only going to change its diaper, producing his handkerchief to prove it. He takes it home, gets it to sleep, and goes out to look for work. Wifie tells him to get something artistic. He gets a job as butcher. Returning home, he sees the painting outfit flying out of the window, finding that Wifie has discovered a Caruso in the person of the baby. Hubby is overjoyed to hear that Wifie intends to find her "artistic atmosphere'' cultivating the baby's voice.
- Mr. and Mrs. Love try to save money. Mrs. Love discharges the maid and Mr. Love fires the office boy. Then their troubles begin, and before they are through the house is almost a complete wreck.
- Harry is a stockbroker, but business is poor and he cannot buy Rose the new automobile coat she wants. He is sitting in the office worrying about last month's rent, when a prosperous stranger is ushered in. The stranger gives an order for ten thousand shares of General Munitions, preferred, and gives his check for ten thousand dollars to cover the margins. Harry is so overjoyed at the order that he does not take the precaution to ask the stranger who he is. He 'phones the order to another broker and gets the stock. Then he 'phones Rose to come down and get the coat. They celebrate the occasion, and next morning Harry goes to the office hoping that more prosperous strangers will come in. He is taken aback when the first visitor is a bank runner with the check marked "No funds." He starts to "flirt" with a nice nickel-plated revolver when he takes a look at the tape. "G.M." is going up by quarters and halves and then some. Harry does not know how to conceal his joy. But in walks the prosperous stranger with a demand for his stock and a check to cover the entire amount. Harry shows him the other check and the stranger explains that he forgot that he no longer had an account there and offers to go over to the bank and get the larger check certified. It looks very much as if Harry would have to be satisfied with a buying commission only, when in walked a couple of huskies who grab the stranger and explain that he is an escaped lunatic with a penchant for playing the market. Clearly the stock is Harry's and he takes down a handsome profit.
- Plump and Runt fall asleep while fishing, and dream of an adventure where they rescue a damsel in distress from a gang of pirates.
- Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- 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.
- I. Due Love is gratified by the news that his salary has been raised and goes home to lunch, but instead of finding the usual smiling wife he finds a note saying she has "gone shopping." Packages commence to come in C.O.D. He goes looking for his wife and finds her loaded with bundles; she drags him into a fashionable café and he decides to humor her. Mrs. Love eats the most expensive things and shows hubby more purchases, one of them being a necklace; he is stunned and attempts to bear up by drinking highballs. In the meantime his boss has seen him. His suspicion is aroused by the fact that he is drinking heavily and seems to have bought his wife all sorts of presents. He also learns that Love had not made a deposit at the bank, and has him arrested. After Love has convinced him of his innocence, Mrs. Love explains she has inherited $50,000 from her uncle's estate.
- Hubby after the day's work is done usually stops for a little lunch and a few cocktails while Wifey waits at home for him with a hot supper. Hubby usually reaches home in an ugly mood finding nothing to his liking for supper and usually leaving the table without eating. Wifey finally insists on knowing what is wrong when Hubby tells her if she had to work for one day as hard as he has to she would be tired too. Wifey thinks for a moment and tells Hubby that she will take his place at the office for one day and he must take her place at home. Hubby thinking he has a snap consents. The next morning Wifey give Hubby a taste of what she receives each morning eating in silence and then asking what time it is to find she must rush off to the office. Hubby asks if she hasn't forgotten something. She remembers and gives him a long list of things to be done for the day. That does not satisfy him as he wants to be kissed. She hastily kisses him and leaves. Hubby goes over the list then decides that his wife has been too easy with the maid. He goes into the kitchen and there discovers a speck on a dish. The maid is very angry, looks at the plate and slams Hubby with the dish cloth and quits her job. Hubby does not know what to do; he phones his wife who now is in the office working, that the maid has left. Wifey tells Hubby the work must be done and that he should do it. Hubby does not like the idea, but decides he might try. He goes into the kitchen and begins to wash the dishes, but somehow cannot do it. After an hour or two of waiting without having washed the dishes he empties them into the ice chest and phones his wife again to send up a maid, but to his surprise the clerk answers the phone. When Wifey finds her husband is on the phone, she tells the clerk to tell him that she has gone to get a drink with a friend.