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Box Car Bill and Journeying Jim roll into a town in a box car on a cold winter's day. They look out of the box car and see a chicken yard in the distance. They are chased by the farmer when they attempt to steal a chicken but they make their getaway and build a roaring fire, over which they roast the juicy fowl. After their meal they fall asleep and his majesty appears from a cloud of smoke and says "you fellows have had hell enough on this earth, with the wishbone of the chicken in your possession your every wish shall be granted." With the aid of the wishbone the fortunate tramps enjoy luxurious food, ride in beautiful cars and enjoy the coming of bewitching maidens, and escape from the police several times by waving the magic wishbone. They do not proceed far in one of their cars when they crash into a street car and the auto is badly wrecked. They decide that the auto is no good and wish that a dump cart were transformed into a car. Their wish is granted and they drive to the railroad yards, find all their brother hobos and invite them out for a ride. They have a hilarious time until the auto crashes into a telegraph pole. The scene then fades back to where they both fell asleep devouring the chicken and they wake up extremely frightened, throw the wishbone away and decide that it is no good.

Being ten minutes late for dinner, the poor Window Dresser, refused admittance to his home by his aggressive spouse, is compelled to spend the night on the front porch. After a sleepless night he wearily wends his way to work and we next see him attempting to drape an elaborate gown about the waxen image of a beautiful maiden in a store window, upon which he has already placed the most dainty lingerie. He finds the effort too much for him, and has an inspiration. He casts the gown aside and in its stead covers the lady of wax with a more easily adjusted opera cloak. He falls asleep and has a terrible vision of his nagging wife and pleasant dreams of the waxen image, which comes to life. After dreaming of many adventures in which the wax image and his nagging wife play the stellar parts, he awakens to find himself wrestling with the figure which he has upset in his delirium.

London settlement worker John Morton, Jr., is unaware of the existence of his twin brother, James Melvale, a Paris man-about-town. Frances Lloyd, the wealthy daughter of an American senator, becomes interested in John's work and falls in love with him; but his rival, Lord Warburton, makes Frances believe that John is also James. After many adventures in the underworlds of London and Paris, Warburton is exposed as an impostor and leader of crooks; the brothers are reunited; James reforms; and John finds happiness with Frances.

Our heroine is obsessed with the idea that she can and must sing. Living on a farm she has lots of open space in which to exercise her voice, but is compelled to admit that not even the cows and chickens will listen to her. During an opportunity to sing in the choir, she awakens every living thing, among others a number of peacefully-sleeping congregants. From the city comes a smooth-talking man who promises her the world if she will only be his. They go to the big city where, at a trial given to her in a cabaret, she nearly causes a riot. Of course, everything ends happily. Catalogue of Kodascope Library Motion Pictures, Third Edition.

Susie Speed loses her job n a lawyer's office and gets another one as waitress in a restaurant. Her slowness nearly drives the manager crazy. A chappie enters and sits at Sue's table without removing his high hat. After several attempts to remove it Sue places it on his chair and he sits on it. She then throws it through the service window, where it lands on a tray, and another waitress serves it to Herr Tonik, a scientist. He tries to eat it and on discovering his mistake, angrily leaves. Sue and Maggie start a fight. The manager throws Sue out. Sue sees a sign "Stenographer Wanted" at the "Chemical Research Laboratory" and applies for the Job. Herr Tonik engages her. As she dawdles over her typing he recognizes her as the girl from the restaurant and determines to speed her up. His experiments evolve a "speed powder" and he tries it out on a dog. The dog jumps out of a third story window, climbs a tree, sits in the branches and howls. Satisfied, Herr Tonik gives some to Sue in a box of candy. She speeds up, fairly burns the typewriter. Tonik dispatches Sue to the factory with a bag of the powder in his car. Falling to start the car by cranking, Sue gives it some of the powder, whereupon it goes so fast that it runs into a wooden Indian. Frightened, Sue gives the Indian some of the powder and he comes to life and threatens to take her. She escapes on a wooden horse which she brings to life in the same way. The factory manager refuses to believe the powder is as wonderful as Sue says. She throws a pinch of it into the street and the traffic begins to move like mad. She blows some toward the river and the boats go crazy. A ferry boat loops the loop and dives into its slip. The drawbridge opens and shuts in a flash as boats and trains dash by. This tickles the office boy. He wants to see real action and throws the bag out of the window. Sue escapes as the factory begins to rock and dashes out while the powder starts a cyclone which whirls across the city, tearing up trees and houses and destroying everything in its path. She reaches the laboratory just ahead of the cyclone and tells Herr Tonik. In the midst of this the office begins to whirl and Sue wakes up as Herr Tonik calls her down for sleeping on the job.

The story tells of the comedy company of the Foolish Film Company which starts out to make some scenes near the Nitro Munition Factory. The comedian is made up as a villain, and as he strolls about the grounds of the munition factory Mr. Fidgit, the owner of the factory, sees him from the window. Fidgit thinks him a bomb thrower, as he is carrying an imitation bomb. He phones to the Dubb Detective Agency. Susie Speed, the fearless girl detective, is put on the case She meets Fidgit with his insurance papers and other valuables. He directs her to the place where he last saw the supposed bomb-thrower. Fidgit goes back to his office while Sue starts around the building. Having found the location satisfactory, the comedy director has a dummy of the comedian made and set up with the bomb in its hand, planning to have the hero shoot off its head in the next scene. Sue rounds the corner, thinks the villain is about. to hurl the bomb into the factory, and dives into him. After a battle, she tears its head off and realizes it is only a dummy. Thinking herself the victim of a joke, she returns to Fidgit's office and "bawls him out." When the director finds the dummy wrecked he orders it repaired and goes on with the next scene. The villain and his aide bind the heroine and carry her to a stake, where they are to burn her. From the window Fidgit and Sue see them tying her to the stake, and thinking it real, they rush to the rescue. Sue empties her revolver at them and the whole picture company makes a dash for safety. The actors and the director start back and a blowout on a passing auto scatters them again. The director says, "Some lunatic is shooting at us. Let's find another location." And they start for their auto. Sue looks around as they are helping the heroine into the car and says to Fidgit, "They're kidnapping her. I'll get them." The company arrives at another location. They tie the heroine to a stake, pile wood around her and prepare to "burn her." Sue sees this and summons the police and the fire department. Sue seizes the hose from the first fire engine to arrive and turns it on the fire. The fire is extinguished all right, the villain put to flight, and the heroine nearly drowned. The director charges on Sue with all his men, and she puts them to route with the hose. The police arrive and are about to arrest everyone, when the director demands of Sue the reason why she broke up his scene. Sue then realizes her mistake. Fidgit dashes through the crowd and asks Sue, "Did you get them?" This is the last straw. Sue turns the hose on him and rushes away. She comes to a streetcar track and sees a car coming swiftly toward her. Disgusted with her career as a detective she decides to end it all and lays down on the streetcar track, the car rushes right up to her, and instead of running over her, turns a corner swiftly and goes down a side street. She sees another car coming and moves over into the track running down that side street, while the next car passes her and runs straight up the track upon which she was lying previously. In desperation she gives up the attempt to end her life, tears off the badge and throws it after the car.

The beginning of a perfect day was for Phil to make his own breakfast, take his daily plunge, and be waited on by his valet, who happens to be Brownie the dog. Outside of being a gentleman, Phil was also a dancing professor and taught pretty young ladies how to twinkle their toes. Across the hall from him lived a modiste and her daughter. The daughter was pretty and that's where the story becomes interesting. A pretty girl, a next door neighbor and strict mother all go to make a very deliciously naughty situation. They are about to elope when mother returns and finds her daughter leaving home. She scolds her, and in the rush to get her into her apartment, leaves her grip outside in the hall. Phil grabs his grip and runs back into his room. In the meantime an ex-jail bird has managed to get away with a grip full of jewels; However, the police are right on his heels and chase him into the same house where Phil and the girl live. He rushes up into the hall where he sees the other grip, changes the grips and when the officer gets up to him and searches the grip, all he finds is a collar. The mother realizes the loss of her daughter's grip, goes out into the hall and takes the grip. A general mix-up of grips follows wherein some very funny incidents occur. After a very daring roof chase, the thief is caught and thrown back into prison. Mother forgives the professor and the finis fade out leaves every one in a happy contented mood.

The benefactor who made her father millions demands her hand in marriage as part of the bargain, but the daughter has her own sweetheart, who rushes to get a marriage license.

With the blowing of the one o'clock whistle Waldo is awakened from his snooze on a park bench and dashes home. There he demands his dinner, but Sue, his wife, shows him the empty larder and tells him: "If you don't provide for me, I'll get a job for myself," and she starts out. She lands a job with the Dubb Detective Agency and is assigned to the case of a woman who wants to get evidence for a divorce. With a photograph of the faithless husband, Sue goes at once to his business address and stations herself by the door, where she watches every passer-by, comparing each with the photograph. Her patience is at last rewarded. She finds a man who resembles the photo and trails him. He turns into a restaurant and begins an earnest conversation with the cashier. Sue stands outside watching them and taking notes. When the cashier turns around and Sue gets a look at her ugly face she tears up her notes in disgust. There was surely no evidence in that. Her quarry tells the cashier: "Have your daughter communicate with me at once," and leaves. Waldo sees Sue waiting outside the restaurant. When she trails her man down the street, Waldo is overcome with jealousy and follows after. Her quarry goes to his office and Sue, finding the door locked, resolves to get in some other way. Closely watched by Waldo, she gets to the top of an adjoining building and walks out on some wires which lead to the office window opposite. Halfway across she loses her balance, and falls, catching her toes on two stories below. There she hangs until the wire breaks and she falls headfirst toward the pavement. She goes through the brick pavement. Waldo pulls her out and a huge bump swells on the top of her head. It burst with a loud report which causes a passing chauffeur to think he has blown a tire. Waldo accuses Sue of trying to kill him by falling on him. She resents this with her fist, knocking Waldo across the walk. He then collides with a horse, which he carries over with him. She goes into the office building again and a passing officer arrests Waldo for cruelty to animals. A messenger boy leaves her victim's door open and Sue slips inside and hides behind a screen just in time to hear him tell a girl over the phone, "Meet me at the parsonage and we'll be married at once." He hurries out, and Sue calls her client and tells her that her husband is a bigamist and to hurry to the parsonage. She starts there on the run herself, picking up a cop on the way. The suspected bigamist arrives at the parsonage with his intended bride and the marriage ceremony is almost completed when Sue and the cop burst in and place him under arrest. He objects but Sue scoffs at him. Her client rushes in and confronts the captive. With one look she dismisses him saying "That is not my husband; I never saw him before." and Sue realizes that she has trailed the wrong man.

Bob, cabaret entertainer, is always broke. He is in love with Dot, whose father sends her away to school. She writes Bob that she is sailing the next day. Although Bob hasn't the fare, he resolves to take the same boat. Taking wigs and make-up, he tries to get aboard. He hides in a box but is discovered, climbs to a porthole, but is knocked down by a pail of garbage; climbs a rope, but it is cast off by a sailor, and he falls into the water. Finally, he gives up and is waiting for a last look at Dot, when a porter, thinking him a belated passenger, hurries him on board. Dot is delighted but the purser checks short and starts to find the extra passenger. Bob makes up exactly like the captain. Later he disguises as a sailor, but is caught and put to work scrubbing the decks. Tiring of this, he makes up in exact duplicate of the Count de Brie. The purser discovers the two counts and brings them together, demanding to know "which is the impostor." Dot saves Bob by claiming he is the real count. The purser forces the count to stoke the fires while Bob enjoys himself with Dot. The count's wife sees them in an affectionate pose, and drags Bob away, beats him and throws him on the bed in the stateroom while she dresses for dinner. The count escapes, enters his stateroom to find Bob. The wife is horrified. The count starts after Bob. The purser and sailors join the chase, and Bob takes refuge on top of the smoke stack. The count shoots and he falls through the smoke stack and out of the furnace into the stoke hole. The chase continues, Bob finds Dot and drags her to the bow of the boat. The others are about to overpower him when the ship is torpedoed. Bob and Dot land on a piece of wreckage. The purser comes up out of the water and demands Bob's fare. Bob pushes him under and he and Dot float away.

An artist becomes involved with a model whose husband is a husky sailor.

Mr. and Mrs. Sweettooth were basking in the sunshine in Goofers Park. Their neighbors were having, a friendly spat in another part of the park. Philip de Glass the neighbor, had a hobby all his own of which he is about to par-take, when a policeman comes along and helps the good cause along. Both wives tire of sitting and start scrapping with their husbands. The husbands run away and both meet at the lake, where a pretty nurse girl starts a flirtation with them. She runs to the lake and tells them that the one that recovers the rose which she has thrown into the lake, can have her hand. While they are both straggling to get the rose, the cop, who is the nurse-girl's regular sweetheart, comes along. Great excitement follows and the cop throws them both out of the park. They land on a flivver which drives them right into a huge explosion and they go up into the air. In the meantime, the wives have made the acquaintance of Prof. Jim-Jam, whose specialty is shimmie-shaking. He has a class of beautiful girls whom he is supposed to introduce to a well known dancer that afternoon. He demonstrates to the wives a few steps and makes them eager to learn the new dance. The Powder Puff High School pupils are already in costumes awaiting for the big fete of the afternoon. They are prettily draped in veils, etc., and then some, when Philip De Glass and his friend land in the park near (where the girls are awaiting the arrival of the Professor and his friend. They discover some animal skins and when they find that their clothes are torn to pieces, they don the animal skins and then go out to the lawn, and the girls thinking they are the new Professor and his guest, proceed to entertain them with fancy steps. They are having a glorious time when suddenly the real Professor and the wives appear on the scene. Lots of funny situations follow and pretty effects are seen on the lawn.

This story tells about "The Swede" and The Tad. "The Swede" sweeps the streets and The Tad drives a dump cart. While talking one day the fire department runs past and they envy the fireman. They stop the political boss and ask him to set them jobs with the fire department. He tells them to stick to their jobs. During the noon-hour they sit in the rear of the dump cart and finish the contents of their lunch pails. As they sit back to enjoy a smoke, their imaginations show them as fire chiefs surrounded by husky firemen. A political friend dashes up and informs them he has started an independent fire league and wants them to take charge of it. They are delighted, and he takes them to the new fire house. They are introduced to the firemen and at once take charge. They put the firemen to work and keep everything humming. The chief orders a fire drill after which all grab the pole and slide up to their dormitory. There the firemen undress by order. The helmets all come off at one count and are thrown across on their respective pegs on another. The shoes follow and are thrown into a corner where they arrange themselves in a row. The firemen jump backward into bed and are automatically covered up. The chief and his assistant retire to their own bedrooms where they undress, and hang their clothes on a rack. In the night the fire-gong awakes the firemen, who turn to a row of push buttons. They push No. 1, and the bed clothes fly off; No. 2 and the shoes fly out of the corner on to their feet. No. 3 tips the beds and lands the firemen on the floor. On pushing No. 4 their helmets fly off the pegs and land on their heads. No. 5 lines them all up at attention. The chiefs start for the door. As they pass the clothes rack they appear on the other side fully clothed. They dash into the dormitory and all slide down the pole. The horses are quickly harnessed and all start for the fire, the chief in a dinky roadster, the others on the fire engine, while the hose cart, pulled by a dried up little fireman, speeds up and passes the engine, runs up behind the chief's auto and jumps over it. At the fire they have many difficulties and finally seeing a girl at the fourth story window with the flames shooting out around her, they lasso her and pull her to the ground. She "bawls them out" and the boys decide that their methods of rescuing are wrong. Another girl appears at an upper window. The chief orders his men to play the hose just under the window. He jumps into the stream and slides up to the window, gets the girl and prepares to slide down again when the hose breaks. With his arms around the girl, and struggling against the flames he awakes to find himself seated in the dump cart with his arms around the street sweeper. He relates his dream and finishes by saying "I don't want to be a fireman," and they start for their afternoon's work.