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The Pokes and Jabbs families, neighbors, live across the hall from each other in the same apartment house. The fearless Mr. Pokes is very much bossed by his wife, a suffragette, while Mr. Jabbs is the ruler in his own home. Mrs. Jabbs has just been presented with a new coat by her husband, and. meeting Mr. Pokes in the hall, asks his opinion of it. While Pokes is admiring the coat, his wife, hearing his voice in the hall, peers through the keyhole and mistakes his admiration of the coat for affection for Mrs. Jabbs. Jabbs, at the same time, also hearing voices in the hall, looks through the keyhole and decides to punish Pokes for his familiarity with his wife. Jealousy is aroused in both families and Jabbs and his wife quarrel, the result of which is that she leaves to go to her mother. Mrs. Pokes leaves home to attend a suffragette meeting and Jabbs, learning of a mask ball, persuades Pokes to go as his escort. Jabbs dresses as a woman. Arriving at the ball, they learn that the ball has been postponed. Disgustedly, they start toward home. A policeman gives them quite a chase, but they elude him by dodging into a saloon. The kindly bartender gets in wrong by offering his services and when they beat a hasty exit through the side door, they are confronted by another policeman. Pokes gets rid of him in a peculiar fashion. after several mishaps they arrive home. Jabbs has forgotten his keys. Pokes, becoming brave immediately, offers to put him up for the night. They proceed to retire without removing their clothes. The suffragette meeting being over, Mrs. Pokes returns. A horrible discovery meets her gaze upon entering her bedroom. Jabbs, in female attire, occupies her bed. Wild with rage, she rushes to the Jabbs apartment to inform Mr. Jabbs of his wife's actions. Jabbs, hearing the clatter on the door, beats it out the window to the fire escape. About this time. Mrs. Jabbs returns repentant. Entering her own apartment, she sees a woman lying on the couch and fails to recognize it as her husband. With a piercing shriek, she rushes to the hallway and faints. Jabbs again aroused, makes his exit through the window, and for the fire escape to the Pokes' apartment, begging Mr. Pokes to hide and protect him. Mrs. Pokes arrives on the scene and Jabbs makes for the hallway, but in so doing leaves his skirt clutched in the hand of Mrs. Pokes. Explanations follow, and what at first appeared to be a horrible catastrophe, turns out an innocent prank.

Carmen is washing her doll-baby's clothes. Radcliff, a gunman, approaches her, teases her, and tries to kiss her. She slaps his face with the wet clothes; he angrily plans revenge. Carmen goes into the house. Radcliff sneaks up and throws mud at the clean clothes. Carmen returns and finds her day's work spoiled. She begins to cry. Chandler, who has been watching, comes over to console her. He offers to wash the clothes over. Radcliff makes fun of Chandler. A fight commences. Radcliff shoots at Chandler. The bullet misses its mark and crashes through a window, hitting a servant girl. She looks out of the window and observes a man with a gun. Thinking he fired the shot, she throws a rolling pin at him and knocks him down. The gun is exploded. The bullet hits a painter and knocks him from his ladder. The painter, sore, throws his paint just as the servant girl rushes in. She gets the paint in the face. A fight ensues among the neighbors. The children run off and later make up.

Mabel, a new arrival at the hotel, is annoyed by the attention of Arthur, a flirt, and Mr. Stue, both guests at the same place. Deciding to leave, she goes to her room to pack her trunk. Mr. Stue follows. She takes refuge in the room across the hall. Hearing footsteps, she hides under the bed; the owner of the room, who happens to be Arthur, enters. Noodles, the porter, is sent up to Mabel's room to bring down her trunk. Upon finding Mr. Stue in possession, a fight starts. Mr. Stue is thrown into Arthur's room. He rolls under the bed and is delighted to find Mabel there. He is dragged forth and in the free-for-all fight Mabel escapes and Stue falls into her trunk and is made a prisoner by Noodles, who performs his mission by falling down the steps with the trunk. The trunk bursts open and Mr. Stue pops out decorated with different pieces of lingerie. It winds up with Stue and Noodles falling into the fountain, where Stue falls peacefully to sleep.

A gentleman sneak thief has for an accomplice a trick dog which enters the room of the guests by the way of the fire escape, bringing back all the valuables he may find to his master. While at work the dog comes upon a second burglar who has lighted a stick of dynamite and placed it upon the safe. The dog takes the stick of dynamite and brings it back to his master, driving the second crook ahead of him. The crooks flee, panic-stricken, over the roof tops, followed by the dog, which still carries the dynamite. They find their only way of escape is by the chimney which brings them into the police station. The dog follows with the stick of dynamite and creates a panic. Police and crooks make a quick exit. After an exciting chase they arrive at the river and are forced to jump overboard. The dog, arriving at the bridge, drops the lighted stick of dynamite into the river, causing an explosion. After all danger is over the police capture the crooks and march them to the station house.

Chandler and Jimmie are rivals for Charlotte's hand. Chandler takes her out for a walk of an evening. Jimmie calls to serenade is chased by Charlotte's mother. Jimmie meets the couple in the park and the two youngsters arrange for a fight, Billy to be Chandler's second. Jimmie is beaten and seeks refuge behind his lady love's skirts. Chandler and Billy carry the girl off and start a game of hide and seek. Jimmie approaches the girl when she is alone and offers her ice cream as a solace. Charlotte's stomach gets the best of her and she accepts Jimmie's offer. Chandler approaches and denounces her for her duplicity as well as the worthy rival. Chandler picks up a handful of mud and throws it at Jimmie, but it strikes Charlotte in the face. Jimmie washes the face and the two go for a ride in a boat. Chandler pushes them into the stream without oars. Then, realizing the danger he has placed them in, he rushes for help. Billy rushes to tell Charlotte's mother. After passing through a series of novel adventures, the children are rescued and everything ends well.

Reuben catches his wife flirting with the farmhand. Sore, he leaves for business. Arriving at the store, he finds his clerk flirting with the customers. He calls the clerk down and tries to wait on the customers himself. In comes a traveling salesman. Reuben's wife finds she needs something at the store. When she arrives she finds her husband too busy to wait on her. She looks around and flirts with the traveling salesman. When the customers leave, Reuben sees the salesman and his wife flirting. He kicks the salesman out. The wife naturally feels sorry for the salesman. He apologizes for the trouble he has caused her. The constable sees them talking and informs Reuben. Reuben shoots the place up. The salesman escapes. In the meantime, a burglar, dressed similar to the salesman comes out of the window. The constable starts on his trail. He rung into the salesman who is about to take a swim. The constable takes the salesman's clothes. The salesman escapes. Running to the house he jumps through a window and sneaks under the bed. Reuben comes home and starts talking to his wife about her past doings. To his surprise he feels hands on his foot. Pulling the salesman out from under the bed, he starts shooting. The salesman escapes, but is pursued.

Olive and her sweetheart leave school. Olive's mother, giving her some bread and jam, makes her mind the baby on the porch. Her sweetheart comes for her. They go away and leave the baby. They play around the corner and the baby creeps away. She makes the acquaintance of a bulldog and creeps on toward a cliff on top of which she sits and plays. The mother, now anxious, discovers that the baby is missing. She arouses the neighbors to help her look for her. Meanwhile, the dog decides that he wants some jam. He runs to the baby, follows him off to the base of a tree. After feeding him jam, she falls asleep. The mother, finding the shoe which the baby left on top of the cliff, imagines that she has fallen over. The neighbors help her climb down the cliff. After a series of mishaps, they discover the baby.

Springtime. Everything in nature is awakening. A pretty girl in a boat is drifting. Sterling sees the girl and becomes infatuated. At the same time another man sees the girl and he, too, falls in love. They pursue her in boats, each unaware of the other. The girl escapes on shore, where the two men meet and the rivalry begins. By a peculiar ruse Sterling manages to best the other rival and win the girl. He brings her to a lawn dance and makes a hit with the guests by bringing such a pretty girl. The other man in the meantime makes the acquaintance of a Salome dancer and surprises the party by appearing with her. The shapely form and grace of the beautiful dancer completely unbalances Sterling's mind and he rushes madly to her. The rival naturally objects and a sword duel is the result. The rivals turn out to be terrible cowards, and the affair of honor turns out to be a fiasco. In the mix-up that results the Salome dancer escapes into a public park, with the park police in hot pursuit, trying to cover her up. They are chased to a bridge where the rivals, in mortal combat, pitch headlong into the water sixty feet below. The efforts to save the rivals from drowning result in the most comical incidents imaginable.

A scene showing the graceful swan swimming up the lake. Nest and eggs and then the tiny hatchlings just coming to life. The first swimming lesson shows the hatchlings being shoved into the lake by their mother. The little fuzzy beings take to the water "like ducks" and soon are scampering away with their haughty and beautiful mother floating majestically behind. A scene showing swan life in the autumn. The lake is very rough and the swans fly hastily away from the apparent danger.

Snookee, to revenge himself on his hated rival, invokes the aid of the instructor in hypnotism. He uses his new-found powers with great success. He runs for the preacher and hastens the preparations for the wedding. All goes well until the hypnotist encounters the rival and releases him from the spell. The rival comes on the scene just as the minister is tying the knot for Snookee and the girl. Then real trouble starts with fast and furious fun in evidence every moment.

A gentleman sneak thief has for an accomplice a trick dog, which enters the room of the guests by the way of the fire escape, bringing back to his master all the valuables he may find. While at work one day the dog comes upon a second burglar who has lighted a stick of dynamite and placed it upon the safe. The dog takes the stick of dynamite and brings it hack to his master, driving the second crook ahead of him. The crooks flee panic-stricken, over the roofs, followed by the dog. who still carries the dynamite. They find their only way to escape by the chimney, which brings them into the police station. The dog, with the stick of dynamite, following, creates a panic.

Olive and Margie are playmates. They are at the breakfast table and mother allows them to go out and play marbles, telling them first to be sure to keep clean. While playing, they spy three of their friends on the other side of the street also playing marbles. "Tough guy" Jack, Harry, and tiny Billy run across the street and soon they are all playing an animated game. They throw the marbles which they have won in a cigar box at one side and little Billy cautiously helps himself to as many as he can get into his chubby hands. He has a deal of fun throwing them one by one in a hole in the fence and pretty soon no marbles are left in the box. So that ends that game. Then someone suggests that they "make boats." So they run along and stop by the wayside and take off their shoes and stockings. They jump into a dirty pond and come out bespattered with mud from head to toes. Of course, they are afraid to go home looking like that, so they creep into the bathroom without mother seeing them. Soon the bathroom and bath tub are black and dirty from their clothes and grimy bodies. They manage to get into their bedroom and then ensues a pillow fight. One of the pillow cases bursts and soon the room is filled with feathers. Mother, however, comes to the rescue and everything ends well.

Jim, a gangster, asks Lena to attend the Dutch picnic with him. It so happens the gang, holding forth in Lena's neighborhood, are at outs with Jim; he has stolen their "crap" money. When they observe him asking Lena they rush off to tell Heinie, who is also smitten with Lena. Heinie rushes to the scene to start trouble with Jim. Result, he is knocked down. Lena resents the brutality of Jim and promises to accompany Heinie to the picnic. On the following day Heinie and Lena start for the picnic grounds. As they are about to enter Heinie discovers that his hands need washing. Excusing himself and leaving the money with Lena, he makes for the river. Meantime, Jim, on his way to the grounds, is hit by a croquet ball. He pursues a man in a checkered suit as the guilty party. The chase fails. Jim returns, meets Lena and enters into a conversation. Heinie, while washing, falls in. Looking for something dry to put on, be finds a checkered suit left by someone in bathing. He puts it on and starts hack. As he approaches Jim and Lena he hears him declare he will kill every man wearing a checkered suit. Heinie takes refuge behind a tree. Jim catches sight of him and commences firing. There is great excitement; the ambulance is called in. Then Jim runs out of bullets. Heinie, by this time, discovers two revolvers in the pocket of the checkered suit and commences shooting. A chase follows with Heinie coming forth as the hero of the day.

Max calling upon his sweetheart Dot finds another rival has won her heart. Max is furious and declares she shall never be the wife of another. Going to a drug store, he orders some poison. The clerk, surmising something wrong, sells him powdered sugar. Max, after mixing the supposed poison with some candy, sends it to his former sweetheart. Dot, in the meantime, is thrown over by the new lover, who proves a flirt, falling in love with every girl he meets. Dot's love returns to Max, and she sends him a note. Realizing what he has done, Max starts on a mad dash to his sweetheart's home to prevent her from eating the candy. Dot has received the candy, and, after eating some, she exits into another room, where she is frightened by a rat and falls in faint. Max, arriving at Dot's home, finds the candy partly gone and frantically phones for the ambulance, which starts on a mad dash. Max enters the other room and is heartbroken at finding his sweetheart apparently dead. He thinks he is a murderer and decides to end it all by eating the remainder of the candy. This he does, and immediately imagines he is dying and is going to the infernal regions and is being greeted by his Satanic Majesty. Dot, upon reviving, appears in the doorway and Max, seeing her. thinks it is her spirit which has returned to haunt him. About this time the ambulance wagon has been mixed up with a construction gang and is blown up with dynamite. Back in the house, Dot has convinced Max that she is real flesh and blood, things are explained and both are very happy.

Billie is flirting with Olive when he sees Carmen. He leaves Olive to go with Carmen. Carmen tells him she wants a doll, so Billie steals Olive's and gives it to Carmen. Olive gets angry and Billie is forced to procure a doll for her, so he looks about for one until he comes upon some Black children; he steals a doll from one and gives it to Olive, who is not satisfied with it and throws it away. The Black children chase Billie to a place where Olive disposed of the doll, and he returns it to the Black children. He then returns to Carmen, lures her from her sweetheart, and takes her to an ice-cream stand, where he treats her. He finds he has no money to pay for the ice cream, but quite undaunted he goes to the sweetheart he stole from and borrows a dime, with which he returns to the stand and pays for the sodas. The sweetheart, watching him, sees his nervy trick and gets angry. He at once rushes upon the young gallant and proceeds to "mix" this in a lively fashion. Billie comes out of the encounter much the worse for wear and now scorned by both Carmen and Olive.

Because Fanny, his sweetheart, has proven fickle, Myer determines to commit suicide. He is prevented by Arthur, his roommate. In the fight for possession of the revolver, they arouse the resentment of Count Gasco. On learning of Myer's trouble, the Count, however, forgives and suggests a plan. Myer poses as dead. Fanny is informed and calls to see her dear departed. Both Arthur and the Count, unknown to each other, fall in love with Fanny. Arthur decides that with Myer out of the way, he can win her. Clamping the lid on the coffin, he starts a wild dash for the graveyard, while the Count makes love to Fanny in the kitchen. Dropping the coffin in the grave, Arthur covers it and dashes back to the house to find that Fanny loves the Count. Realizing Myer must be dying, he rushes back to save him. Myer has succeeded in extracting himself from the grave, however, and is on the way to see the girl. He is wild with anger when he finds her in the arms of the Count, and starts back to the graveyard to end his life. There he finds Arthur, and accuses him of attempted murder. They start to fight and fall into the grave.

Gus and Arthur are rivals for the hand of the fair Emma. Both propose at different times and are accepted. Arthur returns and finds his rival with Emma. A fight ensues which results in Emma's father ordering his daughter to choose one or the other of her lovers. This being too much of a mental effort, her father decides that the first lover to bring the Justice of Peace may claim Emma as his bride. The lovers dash off. Gus gains possession of an ancient hack and, arriving at the cross roads, changes the signs, thereby confusing his rival, who takes the wrong road. Gus finds the Justice, loads him into the hack and starts madly back, which results in the carriage breaking in half, depositing the Justice in the road. Gus, not hearing the calls of the Justice, continues madly back to the house. Arthur, on arriving in the wrong town, is mistaken for a horse thief and is thrown into jail, but in time, by a supreme effort, he tears the bars apart and escapes, followed by the Justice who arrested him. They arrive at Emma's home and the Justice finds that Arthur is the wrong man and makes amends by performing the ceremony. Gus arrives in time to hear the final words pronounced. The other Justice, enraged by the treatment received, follows close on his trail.

Billy and Johnny are two variety actors. Their act is a failure and they are ejected from the theater. Learning that Rita Canarsie, a millionaire's daughter, has decided to marry a nobleman, Billy puts on his best clothes and with Johnny as his valet he sets forth to win her. All the girls love the fake count, but the village boys bribe the gigantic Belgian cook to play a practical joke on Billy. His true character is disclosed and Billy is ejected from the premises. Rita Canarsie marries her former sweetheart.

Snitz is asleep, dreaming of extreme wealth. He awakens to observe the sergeant of police making love to a pretty girl. He is immediately smitten and watches his opportunity to make the girl's acquaintance. In due course of time he declares his love for her, but she expresses her preference for brass buttons and a blue uniform. After consideration, Snitz decides to become a policeman. He is appointed to his rival's precinct a place that has been over-run with gangsters. The sergeant discovers Snitz making love to his girl and in order to get rid of him, he sends Snitz out, single-handed, to capture the gangsters. But instead of pursuing, Snitz is pursued by the gangsters. There are hair-raising chases through streets and over roofs. At the top of a chimney Snitz and a gangster have a struggle; they fall down the chimney into the police station. Snitz, realizing where he is, turns his man over to the captain as though he had captured him. The captain immediately strips the sergeant of his badge, and places it on Snitz to the anger and jealousy of the sergeant.

Pedro, the park sweeper, is eating his mid-day lunch which his wife has brought him. She leaves him to return home. Dot, a young lady of leisure, is rowing on the park lake, when she is seen from the shore by a young man of flirtatious temperament. He at once hires a boat and rows out to get a closer view of Dot, but in his eagerness, he is careless, and upsets not only her boat but his own as well. Struggling in the water they become separated and Pedro rescues Dot while a like act is performed by Pedro's wife for the young man. While Dot is thanking Pedro for his heroic act, Pedro looks about in his embarrassment and sees the young man, who is, in gratitude, kissing Pedro's wife, and rescuer. Pedro, angered by what he thinks is his wife's faithlessness, draws his stiletto and starts out to revenge himself. The young man sees the infuriated Italian coming for him with a gleaming blade, and at once runs to insure his own safety. Dot, in the excitement of the moment, follows Pedro. The chase leads to the lake shore, where pursued and pursuer meet and clash in a combat, which results in all concerned being precipitated into the waters of the lake.