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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- A congregation decides its minister is too old, so they hire a new, young minister. But the new minister is too interested in his social obligations to pay attention to his pastoral obligations.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- Two sweethearts have a misunderstanding over pressed roses and pressed pants.
- Ethel Edgar is a wild rose of the peaks, whose only associates are rough, honest miners. Her father and brother refuse her permission to accompany them on a prospecting trip, giving as an excuse that she is a girl and cannot withstand the hardships. She is peeved and decides to go gold hunting on her own hook. Procuring a mirror and a pair of shears, she clips off her tresses, dons male attire, and with revolver and pick sallies forth in search of adventures. One comes most inopportunely, for she falls over a cliff and rolls to the rocks below, stunned and amazed. She is rescued by Wayne Holland, a young miner, who lives alone in a cabin on the mountain. He carries her to his home, where she revives. Holland, while not conversant with the ways of women, has an intuition that his newly made friend is masquerading. The girl tries to bide her identity, but makes it all the more apparent that she is not what she seems. Leaving her in the cabin, Holland sleeps in the open and an unsuccessful miner tries to rob him, entering the cabin. The girl screams and Holland is awakened. There is a fight and the thief sent crashing down the mountainside. Ethel leaves the cabin and goes home, where she dons suitable wearing apparel. Holland, left alone, cannot forget the sweet face and resolves to seek her. After much primping he dresses in his best suit of clothes and goes to her home, where he discovers her in proper personae, and is smitten by her charms. He endeavors to make love to her, but she will have none of him in his make-up assumed for the occasion. He returns to his home crestfallen as the result of his courting expedition. Ethel follows him, anxious to make amends for her seeming coldness. There is a pretty scene in his cabin of the happy lovers.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and a baby comes to cheer their home. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and, pending the expected money, does not provide liberally for his family. The wife is dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures away the wife of the mechanic. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. They plan to leave the city, but while walking about awaiting the departure of a train, they happen to pass the doors of a moving picture theater and Mrs. Crawford expresses a desire to go in. They enter and the story thrown on the screen is identical with the experience in which they are passing through. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs Robinson to take her out in the open. Then and there she repudiates him and, refusing to ride in an automobile, she hurries towards her humble home, hoping she may return before the husband. She reaches the house, searches feverishly for the note, finds it and destroys every vestige of her attempted perfidy. She finds the child sleeping peacefully and takes it in her arms. The husband returns triumphant. He has disposed of his invention for a sum sufficient to make them rich. The wife takes him in her arms delirious with joy and satisfaction.
- A country girl who come to the city is usually considered prey by her more sophisticated cousins. Flo Greene, when in dire straits, is befriended by an artist, and soon their acquaintance is more than a passing one. He goes so far as to place a ring on her finger, and when he asks her not to wear it she consents, not knowing the significance of the request. But her eyes arc opened later, when she attends a party at his studio, and the Bohemian atmosphere so shocks her that she dashes out in a rage. Some time later, her younger sister comes for a visit from the country. She arrives at the house while Flo is away, and Flo's husband sees her. He immediately begins to flatter her, and finally induces her to accompany him to the studio. Here he resumes his advances, and suddenly seizes her. Flo, who had divined this when she found nobody at home, now enters. The anguish of a beguiled woman who is trying to save her sister now confronts the roué in all its fury, and he is overwhelmed at Flo's vigorous denunciation. Before he can recover, both have hurried from the room. The great city has been too much for the simple country girls, their only offense having been the possession of pretty faces. They pack their belongings and we soon see them back in the country, to the simplicity that they now hail as a haven of safety.
- A mother arranges to go to a matinee with a friend; and the plan is that she is to leave her little daughter at her husband's office. She takes the little one down, but her husband is not in. With a feeling of safety (why not?) she entrusts the child to the care of the office boy, who promises to turn the child over to the father as soon as the latter returns. The boy plays with the child, and we incidentally witness the routine of the office, one feature of which is the appearance of the man who changes the supply of towels at the employees' washstand. Soon after this the boy is sent out on an errand, and he is gone a long time. Before his return the mother and her friend return from the theater, and very soon thereafter the father comes in from his business errand. He greets his wife affectionately, and she asks him about their little girl. He pleads ignorance and she thinks he is joshing; but soon both realize that something is amiss, and they begin to search the office. They fail to find the child, when the father thinks of the safe. The clerks are preparing to leave, and the safe is locked; it is a time lock safe, that cannot be opened until the morning! He finds the little girl's hat near it! The parents are frantic, horror-stricken! A policeman is summoned, but he can do nothing. Finally he gets an idea. He takes the father to the abode of a famous burglar, and the cracksman is entreated and paid an enormous sum to come to the office and exercise his art for the sake of the parents. He goes, but insists on being alone in the private office while he does the job. The parents and policeman step outside. He sits down to sharpen a tool, when he sees something. Those waiting outside are horrified to hear thunderous laughter from the burglar inside; in a little while he steps out and they all rush in anxiously, while the burglar exits. There, in the little basket that the towel man left, lies the child, fast asleep, covered by two towels!
- Kelly is a detective who is called in on a strange murder case. The dead man has a piece of leopard skin in his hand. Later at the club he sees Shields, a desperate character. He follows the man and sees him meet the Leopard Lady, an actress, and overhears an appointment that they make. Later he gets in the home of the actress and accuses her of the murder. She says that Shields is the guilty man. The next day Kelly is caught by Shields's gang and taken to the den of some ferocious lions that he keeps for such occasions. But the actress is warned and arrives in time to save the detective from his horrible fate by shooting the lion just as the tragedy is about to take place. Then she sails away in an airship and leaves the detective madly in love with her.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- The actors arrive in a motor car, and are welcomed to the hotel by the boniface and his assistants. The Americans admire the surroundings, and are agreeably surprised at what they see, and the cordial welcome extended to them. All the well-known "Imp" stars appear in traveling costume, which is their first formal introduction in proper personae, an innovation which will be welcomed by their many admirers. In the next scene they sally forth to engage in the work of producing a picture. The producer heads the force, with the camera men in evidence, a jolly party of folks who depict "Imp" pictures in pantomime. Then comes the story, a beautiful Cuban romance. Pablo, of humble origin, loves Rosita, a beautiful maiden, and is apparently prospering in his love affair, when a stranger appears on the scene, Wallace Crawford, an American tourist, who evidently finds time hanging heavily on his hands. Crawford rides up to the home of Rosita and asks for a drink. He is quick to note the lovely face and graceful curves of the Cuban girl, and resolves to meet her again. He rides away and Rosita, forgetting Pablo, looks with altogether too much concern after the visitor. Pablo call with his guitar and, as is his wont, played to the girl, who, seated beside him, allowed her thoughts to wander from the scene and dwell on the tourist. Lulled to sleep by the soft tones of the instrument Rosita dreams, and her dream is depicted on the screen. In her dreams she meets Crawford, who is an adept in the art of charming unsophisticated women. He attempts to caress her, but is repulsed. Knowing the longing of women for finery, he produces rare jewels and adorns the girl with a rich necklace, which she admires. She is won, and is in his arms. The pair move away, Crawford leading his horse. They are detected in their clandestine love-making by Pablo, who summons her parents. Rosita, in her innocence, thinks Crawford means honorably by her, and she directs his steps to the church and asks the priest to unite them in marriage. Crawford had not reckoned on this phase of his, to him, harmless love affair, and he declines. He is attacked by Pablo, and only the intervention of the Holy Father saves the life of the faithless American. During the struggle Rosita awakens to find it all a dream. She is contrite, and the drama closes with the venerable Father uniting Rosita and Pablo in marriage. The actors are then seen returning to the hostelry, where they reappear clad in their street habiliments, only to leave in a motorcar; their work of producing the picture being finished. The film closes with a rare tropical scene peculiar to Cuba.
- Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. They find time hanging heavily on their hands, when the monotony is relieved by Edith Morton, a dentist. She is first noticed by Claude Marlow, who observes her enter her home in which her dental office is located. Marlow repairs to his club, where he raves of her beauty to Wilson and Strong. They are gazing out of the window when they see her padding. Not knowing she is the object of Marlow's glowing description, they follow unbeknown to each other. Each of the trio immediately develops a painful attack of toothache as a pretense of being admitted to the parlors of the fair molar extractor. Marlow arrives first and is ushered in by a maid. He is in the throes of a jumping toothache apparently, but is covertly congratulating himself that he will be admitted into the seclusion of the dental office. She gives a critical look at the alleged aching tooth. She extracts the tooth, and sends him out of the room in pain, after receiving her fee. In turn Wilson and Strong appear in the waiting room confident that the others are blissfully ignorant of any other intent than a visit to the dental office to be relieved of pain. They try to flirt with her, but she resents them. Just as the young rounders have had it brought home to them that they have been circumvented by the dentist and that they have all visited the office on the same mission, they have another surprise in store. The dentist comes into the reception room and gives them the laugh and, opening the street door ushers in a man whom she introduces as her husband.
- Actress Violet Marcell holds her fatherless babe in her arms as a messenger boy brings her a telegram: "Join the show at Conness, N.H., Tickets await you at station." While she packs her trunk, Violet wonders what she will do with her babe. As a washerwoman with her basket full of clean linen enters the house Violet hastily tucks her child in the basket while the washerwoman is engaged elsewhere, and leaves. The washerwoman, ignorant of the infant in the basket, leaves it with Mrs. Evans, who later opens the basket and finds the baby, to whose dress is pinned the following note: "Kind neighbor, I trust you will care for my little Violet. A poor unfortunate mother." Evans is angered that his wife should be imposed upon by an actress who has erred and brusquely declares his intention of sending "the brat" to the poorhouse. Mrs. Evans pleads with her husband to permit the baby to stay and finally Evans consents. Years pass. "Little Bill" Evans, Violet's childhood playmate, has become "Big Bill," one of the best halfbacks ever turned out at his college. He returns from school at the end of the semester and is met at the railroad station by Violet, his father and mother. Bill is a little embarrassed in Violet's presence and finds it difficult to take up his friendship where he left off. In the days that follow, however, their friendship is renewed and gradually ripens into love. While Violet was a little girl not yet in her teens there came to the Evans home one day a trunk marked "Violet Marcell, Theatrical." A letter followed from the manager of the show with which little Violet's mother had been playing, which told of the death of Violet Marcel, and who, before her death, requested the manager of the show to send her trunk to the guardian of her child, stipulating that the trunk must not be opened until her daughter reached her maturity. Upon Bill's return from college he and Violet come across the trunk. Violet remembers the letter sent years before and feels that she is now old enough to open the old trunk. They find a box of grease paints and have a lively time making up and "playing theater" as they did years before as youngsters. Evans sees the growing friendship between his son and Violet and does his best to discourage it. Evans finally accuses Violet with trying to bewitch his son and the next morning she carries out her resolution to leave for the city. She secures a position in a garment making shop, where she is promptly invited out to dinner by the manager. When she refuses she is discharged. Florence, a dance hall artist, who boards in the same house with Violet, helps her to secure a position in a cabaret and music hall, where she "makes good." She writes a letter home to 'Mother" Evans. Bill gets the letter and determines to follow her. Bill meets two friends in the city and drops into the cabaret where Violet is playing. At the moment he enters, Violet is insulted by two strangers who sit down at the table where she and Florence are resting. Billie takes Violet home and the next day they are married. The same day Billie meets his mother's old beau, Jim Ridgway. He tells Ridgway of his marriage, and upon arriving home Ridgway tells Mrs. Evans. Mrs. Evans is overjoyed and in her excitement consents to go to the city with Ridgway to meet Violet and her son. Evans sees his wife leave with his old rival and is infuriated. He trails them to the city, where he and the policeman break into the boarding house, only to find a happy little reunion between Violet. "Mother" Evans and her son. Evans forgives his son and takes Violet into his arms.
- Gerald Kinney is a roué and travels with a fast set, having plenty of money to indulge his tastes and going the pace that kills. He is somewhat satiated with the life he is leading and his better nature asserts itself at times. He leaves his club, where the wine is flowing and the tables are strewn with poker chips, and motors out into the country. In a pretty wooded dell, by the side of a quaint old well, he meets Myrtle Edgar, a simple country maiden, pretty, pure and demure. It is a revelation to him. The girl is a new type, unlike any woman he has ever seen. She shyly gives him a drink of the cool water. Endeavoring to take liberties with her, he is repulsed, kindly but firmly, and that is a new experience for the debonair clubman. It is a welcome innovation and he sees in her only the pure and holy. Roses grow in profusion in the pretty spot and she plucks one and fastens it on his lapel. The rose acts as a talisman. Whenever he is tempted to do wrong, he regards the flower. His friends rail at him and wish to learn his secret, but he guards it jealously; gradually dropping his old acquaintances and leading a more quiet life. The memory of the sweet country girl is always before him. At a swell society function, he suddenly thinks of her and is distrait. He leaves his handsomely gowned partner and walks out into the night, the memory of Myrtle haunting him. He seeks her out and makes an honest declaration of his love, but she intuitively divines there is a disparity in their station. He tells her of his past life and she puts him on probation. They are married and after a few years of wedded life a child comes to gladden their hearts. One night the wife is conning a book and finds between the leaves a pressed rose. She questions him and he tells her it is the rose she gave him at the old well, the flower that made a man of him and brought him a true and trusting wife, making his life brighter.
- Village telephone operator Ruby is friends with Evans, but she is accidentally brought to realize his cowardice by her rescue from a terrible death by Raymond. Her future actions toward Raymond prove to Evans that he has lost her affections. This fans his animosity to revengeful hatred. A hunting accident to Raymond a few days later gives Evans his chance for revenge. He is sent to repair a damaged telephone wire which Raymond had accidentally caused. Ruth overhears his threats because he had left his tests connected. While Evans drags Raymond to edge of the train tracks and drops him over, Ruby hurries to the rescue with a doctor. Meanwhile, Evans meets his just deserts by a fatal mis-step in again climbing the pole to disconnect the tests, and Raymond tries to rescue him, though just in time from a passing train. Raymond collapses in Ruby's arms as the doctor crosses Evans' arms as a sign of his just death.
- In response to Lincoln's call for troops at the outset of the Civil War, Bill and Jim Clark leave for the front with the consent and blessing of their mother. The brothers take an affectionate farewell of their mother and sister, Louise and Anna. Their regiment is reviewed by President Lincoln and the soldiers march away with buoyant spirits and with loyal hearts. The story reverts to the front, after a battle scene, within the Union lines, the brother in the country of the enemy. They are doing picket duty, stationed on an outpost. They meet at the end of their rounds and Andrew Down, a rebel sharpshooter, comes upon them stealthily. He takes careful aim and shoots. Jim falls, apparently dead. Bill looks upon the body of his brother and is obsessed with rage and grief. Forgetting everything else in the knowledge that his brother has fallen, he dashes after the rebel. Dowd drops his gun and takes to his heels. Endowed with super-human strength Bill gains on Dowd, bent on revenge, and the race is a highly excited one. With strength almost spent Bill reaches Dowd, but catches hi foot under a root and falls. Dowd quickly turns and makes him his prisoner, securing his gun and covering him with the weapon. At this moment a detail of Union soldiers are seen coming towards them, and Dowd gives Bill to understand that if he will protect him, he will not shoot. Bill promises, and Dowd returns his gun. Bill threatens to shoot anyone who lays a hand on Dowd, claiming him as his prisoner. Dowd, a prisoner, repentant for shooting Jim, asks permission to nurse the brother, which is granted, and he gives him every attention. An order is brought for Jim to be sent home as he is convalescing, and at the same time Dowd is exchanged among other prisoners. Dowd expresses a desire to accompany Jim home safely and he is given the privilege. Jim and Dowd take an affectionate leave of Bill and starts north. Arriving at the Clark home the handsome young rebel makes a favorable impression notwithstanding the fact that he is an enemy and is responsible for the condition of Jim. Two weeks later Louise Clark and Andrew Dowd, the rebel, are discovered in the garden of the Clark grounds confessing their love for each other, the old, old story. Dowd takes leave of the Clark family and goes to join his regiment. He promises to return at the close of the war and claim Louise, and the scene of parting at the well is very affectionate. The story reverts to the time of peace after the war, the Fourth of July. The family is reunited. Jim, Bill and Down having returned alive. Dowd and his wife, Louise, and their children visit the Clark home. The children are given some fireworks and they start to fire them off. Jim goes to the flagpole in the yard and commences to hoist the Union flag. As the stars and stripes flutter in the breeze, Dowd turns to his relatives and, with his arm around his wife, exclaims, "This is our flag now." They cheer the flag, shake hands with the former rebel and the story closes with a display of fireworks to celebrate the occasion.
- Guy Sterner, a weakling, takes no risks himself, but selling the secrets of his country to get a little money, proposes to Beth Bohun, debutante daughter of the Senator, a man of high reputation, and is accepted. The Senator finds a Government appointment for his unwelcome son-in-law. Sterner uses his position to obtain information, which he then carries to Carl Ehricke, the international spy. Sterner needs the money to supply the needs of Gloria Steinmetz, a tool of Ehricke's, with whom he has long been in love. The department discovers the leak of information, and the authorities send for Yorke Norroy to unravel the mystery. Norroy consults with Huntley, who informs him that Sterner is paying attention to Gloria, and that he certainly cannot afford to do so on his income. Norroy sends Huntley to Mrs. Sterner, who tells him that her husband has no resources but his salary. Norroy then directs the attention of the department chiefs to Sterner, but they demand more evidence before accusing the Senator's son-in-law. Norroy lays plans to trap him. He invites Sterner to dine with him at his club, but the man says that he has to go to Baltimore. He admires a curious ring which Norroy is wearing. Norroy follows Sterner to Baltimore and sees him enter a certain house. He tells Huntley to go there and rent a room exactly opposite. They watch through the window shades, and see Ehricke, whom Norroy recognizes. The next day the rough notes of a treaty with South America are missing. Norroy goes to Ehricke's. and crawls upstairs, revolver in hand. Ehricke hears him, and, coming out on the landing, attacks him. They fight, and the spy is overpowered. Norroy quickly takes from the man's face the false beard and mustache he is wearing and transfers them to his own. He then lowers the lights, and waits for Sterner. When the man appears, Norroy pretends to have a sore throat, to disguise his voice. Sterner recognizes the ring, which Yorke has forgotten to remove. He pulls a gun and holds it to Norroy's head. Norroy, who has arranged the light so that it will go out at a blow on the table, strikes the table and grabs Sterner while it is dark. They fight, and Sterner fires. He hits the body of Ehricke. Norroy removes the false beard from his face and calls the police. 1 hey arrest Sterner for the murder of Ehricke, but he shoots himself. Later Norroy tells the broken-hearted wife that Sterner died in the prosecution of a dangerous mission for the government.
- Shorty, like all freshmen, is compelled to perform many little services for the sophomores, juniors and the seniors of his college, and while serving one of his classmates, he meets charming Betty Rossmore, and immediately falls in love with her. His bliss is not of long duration, however, as his upper classmates force him to introduce them, and then he is left out in the cold. A junior promenade ball is to be given from which poor Shorty, being only a freshman, is barred. Six students invite Betty to this affair, while Shorty invites her to a dinner. Betty, hoping to have some fun, accepts each and every invitation. The six, one after another, drive up in their automobiles and enter the house. Such looks are exchanged as each comes into the room. Finally Betty appears, shaking with suppressed laughter. Then Shorty walks on the scene, and triumphantly leads Betty from the room and house, enters bis auto and speeds away. The disappointed boys, however, have a mix-up on the pavement, to decide who shall escort Betty, not realizing she has vanished with Shorty. A policeman is called, and the six are bundled into a patrol wagon and hurried off to jail. There they meditate on the perversity of woman, while Betty and Shorty are enjoying their dinner.
- In this piece, Matty Roubert is introduced to us while he is still in bed of a morning. After going through his usual morning exercises, eating his breakfast and receiving his lessons from the private tutor, he departs for the Imp studio. For Matty is an actor. At the studio he is greeted by all the famous Imp stars, King Baggot. William Shay and Frank Crane Then Matty makes up in one of his familiar characters for us and we see him rehearsing a scene. Finished at the studio, Matty telephones his father, asking to be taken to the ball game. Father consents. Matty climbs into a big automobile and later joined by his father, finds his way to the first row in a box at the Polo Grounds. Here the Giants are "warming up." Matty, always anxious to be on the inside, climbs over the box into the field and presents himself before the renowned John McGraw, the Giants' manager. In a close-up scene we see Matty talking with the famous manager and asking him all sorts of boyish questions. Then Matty makes friends with Jimmy Ford, mascot of the New York Giants and plays ball with him. Leaving the ball grounds, Matty visits the N.Y. Globe Theatre and is introduced to Annette Kellerman, heroine of "Neptune's Daughter." The picture finishes with Matty and his father in a theater where Matty is to see himself upon the screen.
- Modern sculptor Raphael dreams that in the days of Phydias, about 500 years before Christ, he lived as Phydias the sculptor, and was the friend of Diogenes and made some beautiful statues on commission for Georgias, the richest man in Asia. His female statues come to life, and disdaining his love, smile upon the wealthy man. Raphael awakens and in real life his of poor love swept aside by great wealth and how misery, ruin and death follows in the train of Marco, a beautiful and merciless coquette, termed "the marble heart" on account of her cold nature.
- Tompkins wished he had a girl other than the homely specimen who confronted him in his boarding house day by day, so Tompkins went off in search of the girl of his imagination. Very early in his adventures three or four of her turned him down, and even the maid servant in the house where he was making himself agreeable helped to pile contumacy on poor Tompkins' head. His most promising adventure was making love to a pretty little cook. But this indignant lady not only repelled his amorous advances, but covered him with flour, so the unsuccessful wooer finally returned home and was content to accept the smiles of the homely girl in the boarding house.